Yes, it has been a while

I dont even know where to start... I will start at the end of last semester, which was my first semester of management, which I loved. So i started the summer with a job at a place called "Get Hitched" which installed truck receiver hitches and fifth wheel hitches, also all the wiring associated with towing trailers and boats and so forth. I really liked it there, i was learning some new skills but then I was offered a job with ATCO Pipelines (ATCO is the major natural gas provider in Alberta) I am just a summer worker doing maintenance ( mostly painting) of the pipelines. Every now and then the main gas pipelines come about ground at different control stations and compressor stations, and whenever the line is above ground it needs to be painted bright red with all the valves painted silver. Some of these havent been painted in a long time, so we drive around rural southern alberta and paint. I havent done too much work yet because of all the different training i need to go through (petroleum safety, WHMIS, first Aid, Transportation of dangerous goods, and an advanced drivers course) pretty much two weeks of courses. By the time I will be done all them I will only have 8 weeks of work left. Anyways the pay is good and I get to spend a lot of time outside in beautiful areas.

Becky has been spending a lot of time trying to bring our yard back from years of uncontrolled growth. It is looking really good this year, with lots of flower beds and a beautiful new patio. I dont know how she manages to keep the flower beds looking good, and the lawn mowed thats the size of a small soccer field, ALL while keeping the kids from running off down the street. We have put in a patio and I just finished making an outdoor table and benches so we can eat outside. We have really been busting our butts to get our place llooking as nice as we can for Magrath days, it hard work but its nice to reap the rewards of a nice yard. Still lots of indoor projects are keeping us busy but its mostly finishing up things we have already started.

Oh yeah, we went to Mexico for a week (Playa Del Carmen) with some of our good friends from Calgary. It was a week in heaven. We went to the ruins at Coba, snorkelled, and swam in underground caves. We wouldnt have to be coaxed very much to go back. I will go look for some pictures to post.







Heres Carley washing her shoe, wearing the Dress that Beckys parents brought her home from the Dominican Republic. Carley loves being outside and learning to ride her bike. We went camping and she loved it, especially playing in the sand at the Lake.




This is Danika at the Lake where we went camping. She is very mobile these days and very inquisitive. Shes not like Carley was, she is very brave. She is starting to talk but not to many words yet.

Heres Dani with a dirty, but very adorable, face

This is our new patio set that I built from the wood I used to build a gigantic picnic table I built a couple years ago. It is almost an exact replica of a set I saw online that sold for just under $7000, this one cost me around $30 in hardware.

Me and Bec on the beach at Playa Del Carmen. A very beautiful beach but a little rocky, I guess there was a hurricane about 5 years ago that kinda wrecked it a little.