Summer Fun Part 4

We spent most of a week camping at Silver Lake with the Kinsmen and at Auburn Riverside Retreat with our friends the Angst and Nelson families. Zack REALLY enjoyed the pool and even began to swim without his water wings by the end of the week.
Brycen took a bit longer to warm up to the water but by the end of the week he was jumping in and splashing anyone in his way!!!

A serious moment wiht Brycen and Mommy.
The campground even has an Elk paddock and Brycen lived for the 'tracker' and wagon rides to see the 'funny elk'.
Here is one of the fish Zack caught at Silver Lake... he won a trophy for the smallest fish...1.5 inches!!!
Brycen did NOT like the fish and cried most of the time we showed him one...it didn't help that the fish jumped out of Daddy's hand and landed on Brycen!!!
In the week prior to this Brycen hated the water...but he soon got over this and turned into a little fish. He enjoyed splashing and digging in the sand at Silver Lake.
We also got to go for a boat ride with our friend Bill at Silver Lake.
Brycen had never been on a boat before but wasn't really sure if he liked it or not...he did a lot of snuggling with mommy anytime the boat went fast.

Summer Fun Part 3

Hangin out at Papa's, Brycen and Zack got the chance to help Uncle Josh (aka Uncle JuWatch or Crotch) feed the calves. Here they are deciding where to go next.
Jessica came to help them too.
Then it was off to the beach with Grandma, Jessica and mommy.
Brycen loves the sand but not to sure of the water.
Enjoying some juice after a hot day at the beach...wearing matching t-shirts from Uncle Jason and family all the way from Estevan Sask.

Summer Fun Part 2

The boys enjoyed a photo shoot at Papa's place on his tractor. I made a t-shirt for dad for his birthday with this picture of the boys on it but in black and white. This is Brycen's most favourite place to be...on Papas 'tracker'...though Papa is now becoming known as Cramp Pa.
I call this one Peek a boo Brycen. Doesn't it look like something out of the 1940s? This tractor was purchased by my Grandpa Ireland in 1940 and is a Farmall H. My dad fixed it up earlier and it is currently being used in a tractor square dance group done in Teeswater for the International Plowing Match.

The last weekend in June was the World's Invitational Fastball Tournament in Monkton. It is our fifth year hosting this tournament. This year they had a day camp that Zack attended. It is capped off with an autograph signing session with many of the players who hail from places all over North America, South America, Austrailia and New Zeeland.
Zack and Brycen's cousin Jessica was home for a week and spent some time with them and their cousin Mac. Mac is VERY fond of Zackary and tries to kiss him all the time!!!
Father's Day weekend we took our family to our church retreat at Camp Kintail. We enjoyed lots of activities including fun at the beach during the day and a campfire their at night. This is Zack and his buddy Darnell throwing rocks in the lake.

Portrait Updates

Brycen Mark Alexander Tummers - June 6, 2008 - Age 2
Zackary Nicholas William Tummers - June 6, 2008 - Age 5

Summer Fun Part 1

Brycen and Zack are super excited about their 'new the them' wading pool although Brycen insisted it was a boat at first!!! They were so happy to find Daddy filing the pool up when they got home today.
Brycen enjoyed playing with his new water wheel toy and was so excited to see that what happened to the water. At first this was all he'd do with the pool... but pretty soon he ended up right inside, soaked and laughing his head off!!!
Ready, set....JUMP!!!!
Zackary and Geoff caught a toad and put it in a bucket. Brycen thought it was a frog and kept jumping around the bucket and yelling 'jump fwoggy, jump'!!!
Zack named the toad 'Toady"...terribly original but cute all the same. He also has a pet snail named...you guessed it, Snaily. So far he hasn't convinced me to bring the pets inside!!!

Happy Birthday Brycen!

Happy 2nd Birthday Brycen!!! Friday was the big day and what fun it was. Zack was just as excited as Brycen about some of his gifts!!!


A new water toy for his 'new to him' wading pool. He wasn't too sure what it was but quickly figured it out once we added water!!!
Brycen got a bubble mower from Aunt Kim, Uncle Drew and his cousins. He's wakes every morning and asks for bubos and it's the first thing he does when he gets home from the babysitters each day. I don't think our lawn has ever been so....clean!!!
Here's our 'twin' boys as Zack calls them in their matching t-shirts. Both boys got them for their birthdays. Don't they look handsome!!!

Happy Birthday (almost) Brycen!!!

The official day isn't until Friday but I couldn't resist posting some pictures from Bryen's family party on Sunday...I'm sure I'll have more to post later in the week!!!
This was his present from Mommy, Daddy and Zackary and he LOVES it...despite it being the wrong colour!!! He did get one of the right colour from Papa Ireland but the photos aren't in the computer yet.

Uncle Josh decorated Brycen's cake and filled it with trackers, ca-ows and an-mos so he was pretty excited. He's mastered the technique of blowing out candles...needless to say we had to light them a few times to get the pictures!!!
Brycen got a dump truck full of sand toys from Uncle Josh and Marjan and some very cool blocks from Uncle Adam and Aunt Julie and baby Mac. The blocks now reside in the dump truck and race across the kitchen floor in hot pursuit of Zackary!!!

This adorable picture was taken a few weeks ago at my Uncle Gord's 60th birthday party. These are Brycen's cousins Allison and Avery...born 2 and 6 weeks before him. We have a great picture of them all within a few weeks of being born so it was time for an update.