September 14th

Last year on September 14th, we started a tradition of going to an old train bridge we had gone to the night before Liam was born.

Here is our post of last year. I wanted to keep this tradition going, and head back every year to get some family pictures.

Here we are in 2008, waiting in anticipation for our baby to come.

2009

And this year.

Liam likes the part where we get to throw rocks over the edge.

September Long Weekend

Now going backwards because I still need to post about our September long weekend...

This year, we headed to Drumheller and Banff with the Phillips family. We all arrived on Friday night in Cochrane and stayed in one of the guest houses at Rachel's school. It was the perfect size for all of us and central to everything we wanted to do. Thanks for letting us stay with you Rachel!
On Saturday we headed to Drumheller for the day. I'm pretty sure I had never been before and was quite excited to see all the touristy sites :) It ended up being a beautiful warm day and we got lots of great pictures.

Our first stop was at the World's Biggest Dinosaur.

The most used phrase of the weekend was, "Liam, what does a dinosaur say?" followed by Liam's animated, "ROAR". Pretty cute.

We walked all the way to the top of the dinosaur's mouth. Liam was quite excited with all the dinosaurs on the walls!



It was actually a little scary at the top. We could really feel the wind swaying us back and forth, so we didn't stay up there too long :)

John and Tam bought Liam a dinosaur shirt and we wanted to get a picture of him with it on. So we told him to smile and all of a sudden he lays down on the ground and starts doing model poses. It was SO FUNNY! Can you tell he's used to the camera :)

Our next stop was the suspension bridge.

We then headed to the famous Hoodoos. They looked a lot smaller in real life but were still really neat to see.

Liam, with Uncle Jared, holding onto his new dinosaurs.

Our final stop of the day was at the Dinosaur museum. It was definitely worth seeing!

On Sunday, we woke up to rain and very cold weather and we were debating if we should just stay inside. We finally decided to brave the cold and head to Banff...and I'm so glad we did. We didn't bring our camera along, since we had 2 great photographers with their cameras, so I'm stealing a few from Rachel's facebook. Hope that's okay Rachel. You get better pictures anyways :)

It was definitely a fun weekend!

Happy Birthday Liam

Liam, today you are 2... TWO! Early this morning, you had crawled into our bed and so we slept in a little together. I was watching you sleep so peaceful and thinking of how much I love you. Then all of a sudden, you turned over in your sleep, put your butt towards my face and let off a huge fart. And then another. Oh Liam, how you make me laugh.

Taken this morning. This is your "cheese" face.

God decided to give you a little birthday gift today too...SNOW!

You and Isaac watching the snow fall.

We had a little party for you tonight at Grandpa and Grandma Phillips' house.

Opening your presents. You definitely got spoiled.


Playing with your new toys.

Opening Great Grandma Weglo & Great Aunty Katherine's present. You actually opened these a couple days before because you just couldn't wait (actually it was daddy who couldn't wait) until your actual birthday :)

You LOVE your new Buzz Lightyear shoes.

You insisted on wearing them right away :)

We love you more than words can say! Happy Birthday sweetheart!