The Rivards

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!

Here we are with friends Alyssa and James. My friend Denise was in need of some babysitting one day so we had a test run with her kids for my family daycare. Everything went smoothly, especially since her kids have such a great appetite. The only glitch we had was that Celeste wasn’t keen on sharing her Leapster. She’s only 3, so I guess we have lots of time to work on her sharing skills.

One of our favourite hang outs is the Victorian Teahouse in downtown Kamloops. So of course we had to bring Nonno and Nonna.
We should have left Nonno at home because as you can see from this picture, Nonno was very anxious about having to eat what he calls “English food”! After 37 years in Canda you’d think he’d be used to “English food”!!!

Celeste loves having her milk served from a tea pot.

mmmm……tasty!!!

Nonna, Zio and Celeste are true blue Toronto Maple Leafs fans. Poor daddy (a Canadiens fan) cringes everytime he sees Celeste wear her Leaf jersey.