The Rivards

While I got some housework done this past weekend, daddy distracted Celeste by taking her to Riverside Park for some “fun in the sun”.

Riverside Park is in downtown Kamloops and this body of water is actually the Thompson River. The city left the river banks in somewhat of a natural state so that everyone can enjoy the sand and water…
…and Celeste sure was enjoying herself!

There’s also a water park. I still remember when we came out for a weekend visit when Celeste was about 1 1/2. We weren’t expecting to go to a water park and we weren’t prepared. Celeste was excited and she ran through the water park and then plopped herself down in the middle of a water puddle and giggled. Her diaper was soaked!

Well, Father’s Day weekend didn’t start off so great since mommy accidentally washed daddy’s cell phone in the washing machine. Unfortunately cell phones don’t work better after they’ve been taken through the “heavy duty” cycle on a front loader. So with a drenched cell phone in hand, daddy and Celeste headed off to the Telus booth in the Aberdeen Mall for an unplanned Father’s Day gift. Daddy was not too impressed with mommy!

Things got better though when we went for lunch to daddy’s favourite restaurant, Montana’s, and then when we made a pleasant discovering of a park we hadn’t been to before. Just under the Trans Canada Highway that runs through Kamloops is a hidden gem called Peterson Creek Park. The park is a bit of the wild outdoors in the middle of the city. It has trails, a creek, a water fall, and wild flowers everywhere.

Notice the pregnancy belly?! It’s much bigger than last time.

Well, we have some sad news to share. Some of you may or may not be aware but in April we had to put Miss Egypt to sleep. She was very sick and even though we hated to do it we knew it was time to let her go. We were fortunate to have her company and affection for 18 years.

Celeste wasn’t really sure what was going on. She only knows that Egypt is “sleeping and is small and so cute”. Her words exactly. I thought I’d share a couple of Egypts last pictures playing “princess dress up” with Celeste. Poor Egypt… she was always the trooper.

On her way out to ballet class.

I can’t remember if she was doing her stretches or sulking. Most likely it was sulking.

Miss Amanda gives a helping hand with the tap shoes.

Getting a pep talk from daddy.

The scarf dance…

The little ballerina’s gather around their teacher, Miss Amanda, to say goodbye.

Here are the kids at Caleb’s party having fun on the trampoline.

Here’s a clip of daddy at Caleb’s birthday party. Apparently the dad’s got bored and decided to have some fun of their own.

Our friend Caleb invited us to his 2nd birthday. Of course we couldn’t say no to the fun!

Before joining in the festivities we made sure to do our stretches.

Cat stretches…

Look at Celeste go…

Stuck in the sponge pit with daddy.

ooooh…sparklers for the birthday boy!

Yup…that cupcake was as yummy as it looks!

Look at daddy go…

Well, here is one of the last pictures of Celeste in her ballet gear. We decided that since she wasn’t interested in dancing while at school, we’d try swimming lessons instead. Maybe we’ll go back to dance next year.

Apparently daddy thought it would be fun to put a pair of Celeste’s underwear on her head. From her expression I would say she thought it was fun too!