Tristan is a 2 year old!

We celebrated Tristan's birthday party as a family. We will have a larger celebration when most of our family is here at the end of May. Tristan really doesn't understand that it is his birthday...or even what birthday is yet. We opened gifts in the afternoon when Cathy and James were both home. We played a little and had some supper. As we were having supper we noticed Tristan was falling asleep. So we quickly decided to get his cake for him so that he could at least have the experience of having his second year birthday cake. It was all set up on the counter beside him. I couldn't even get the two candles lit fast enough before he fell asleep. Both Cathy and James were trying to get him to stay awake. No luck. So we put the cake in front of him and sang happy birthday to him while he slept in his chair. Poor kid. Overall it was fun. Cathy made a pinata for him that we broke the next day. Tristan has sure been a wonderful addition to our family. He is turning into a great older brother. He has so much fun with trucks, tractors and machinery of any size. He loves animals, especially dogs whom he seems to think all are named Ruger. Elephants are referred to as Babar. Most of all he loves his family. It was a bitter/sweet time for us at Christmas time when he was away from us while I was in the hospital. It was obviously hard to be apart from him, especially at Christmas time. At the same time it was nice that he was able to stay with our families and get to know them all better. He sure loves every member of our family. Believe me. He mentions every one's names often. Thanks, by the way, for helping us during Christmas time (and every other time). It's so nice to have support from our family and friends. And happy birthday Tristan.

The kitchen, entry way and two bathrooms have black tile on them now. The living room will have a brown carpet in it.

The back without the deck.

The house we are planning on buying

This is the house we are looking at finishing in Penhold, Alberta. We are planning on listing our house in the beginning of June. Hopefully our house will sell fast and then we can purchase this home and be moved within a month or two. We like Wetaskiwin. It has been good to us. We are simply tired of the commute. We have been working really hard at preparing our home for sale and trying to balance the remainder of our lives with little children, work, church, etc (not doing so well in some areas) that we are getting tired. I will post at a later time some of the renos that we have done.