Teen Camp 2006

Another year of helping at Nanoose Bay has come and gone but not without some more great memories. I was helping doing sports staff again which I really like, for the most part. Elizabeth was up for a couple days at the beginning and a couple at the end, hopefully next year she can be there the whole time. There were about 280 teens at the camp plus all the staff to run it, which is pretty normal numbers for Nanoose. The first few days were o.k. weather wise but the last 2 or 3 days were up around 34-35 degrees. This year was a little different for me because one of the sports staff members who takes all the pictures for the camp sports and awards became ill. Due to his illness I stepped in to take the pictures for 2 days of sports as well as all the banquet and awards pictures. I got to use probably 7000-8000 dollars of camera equipment for those few days which made me almost giddy. All in all it was a great camp with lots of laughs and lots of fun, I wouldn't want to spend 1 week of my holidays any other way. I have around 450 pictures of camp but I'll only put a few on the blog.
The great and mighty sports staff Me taking some pics and getting some sun while I'm at it.
Elizabeth getting a picture from one of the many awards she won in the past, this one was mvp.
This is me at the awards banquet, it's quite the event. It even has paparazzi and reporters.

The big day!! First Baby pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was the biggest baby day since we found out Elizabeth was pregnant, ultrasound day!!!! This morning at 10:00 was exciting, we got to see our first pictures of the baby. We got to see about 45min of the baby moving around and got 8 pictures of the baby to take home. It was so neat to see little ______ laying there and adjusting his/her body in different ways. The baby moved a lot more than we thought, Elizabeth couldn't feel it move at all. We Didn't find out what the sex was, even with mild pressure on my part to know if it was a Boy or a girl. Either way I'm cool with it. We have a couple of good pictures so hopefully you can make out the shapes.

Picture 3 clearly shows that we have a classic case of thumbsuckingalatosis.

Picture 4 shows how flexible the baby is obviously taking after his/her father.

Day 3 kayaking and more sun

On our last day of this long weekend we we're going to rent jet skis and tear up the lake but it didn't work out, oh well. Instead we rented a kayak and cruised on Elk Lake for the afternoon. We thought it would have been easier than it was, so I think our arms will be hurting tomorrow. It was a nice change from the ordinary, I do still want to rent something with a little more power this summer. This was a great summer weekend with nice weather, sun, and a whole lot of fun.

Day 2 of Holiday weekend

So yesterday was another nice day to hit the beach so that's what we did we packed some drinks and snacks and cruised down to Willows for the afternoon.

It would have been a beautiful day for a sail. My preference would be a ski boat but whatever. Last night Elizabeth worked so I went to see Superman. Let me just say that it was a 3hr movie and it was 2hrs too long. The love story way overshadowed the butt kickin that I was expecting. So if you want a pure romance this is the movie for you, if you can stay awake.

Oh Canada and a beach fire...

So to start off this long weekend we thought it would be a great idea to get a bunch of people to go out and have a beach fire at Esquimalt lagoon. We invited some friends and grabbed some drinks and snacks and vegged by the fire. It was a gorgeous night like every night the last two weeks. Some times something so simple as a fire can be such a great time of just laughing and enjoying the company of friends. Last night we watched the firewoks at a friends house instead of venturing into the mass chaos of downtown. Don't really know what else is planned for this weekend but hopefully it's lots of fun in the sun!!

Becka & Gavin's family shower

To some ,family shower sounds kind of weird, but it's not that kind of shower! Sicko! We had a family get together at Malcolm and Tammy's(Elizabeth's aunt and uncle) on Saturday. It was a gorgeous day and we had lots of fun playing games and eating. It has been a long time since there was a big Cowley get together like that. The young kids provided hours of entertainment and the birds showed Grandma Cowley what they thought of her white pants. There was lots of "liquor" to go around especially for Benjamin, who gave us a whole new meaning of the word.

Baseball Tournament Champs

This past weekend was our baseball tourney at MacDonald Park. The day started off bright and early at 8:30am, which is pretty early to start any kind of physical activity. It turned out to be a really nice day, it was sunny all day and everyone got burnt by the end. I think this year I had the most fun out of any I've played. We had a really fun group of poeple and everyone got along great. Here are a few pics from the day.
After our first game we headed off to have some breakfast at the cafe on the breakwater.
this is what a baseball player is supposed to look like(maybe not the pink shirt).
This is the first year we actually took a team photo. Mostly it was due to the fact that I got a new camera.
Just a random shot.

Toys Toys Toys!!!!!

This is definetly the most worthy update I have put on this site. Actually I take that back I don't want to get in trouble, But I'm really excited. This week I recieved my new laptop that I ordered from Dell. It's a inspiron6400. Dual core processor/100gb hard drive/1gb ram/ windows media edition/15.4 widescreen. We've had the same dinosaur for years and we we're due for a new one.

We're not done yet! I got a second treat this week which is my new camera. This bad boy is a whopping 9 megapixels/10.7x optical zoom/ I also bought a 1gb memory card. The camera has so many features I won't bore you with them. Some of you may be so bored with this entry you haven't even got to this point. But if your reading this I guess you LOVE electronics just like me.

Elizabeth's Graduation

It's Official, Elizabeth has her Diploma and was at UVIC for the last time on Friday! Elizabeth had her ceremony on Friday and did the walk up to get her diploma. It was a pretty good ceremony and wasn't even that long considering there was a hundred or so other Nurse grad's. It was just me and her Mom in attendance due to limited seating. I tried to get pictures inside but wasn't all that succesful due to poor lighting. I am very proud of Elizabeth for sticking it through all these years and doing so well in her classes and practicum.
This is Elizabeth getting her diploma and walking across the stage. Her name was at the begining so we had to sit around and watch all the other nurses walk on by.
This next picture is my absolute favorite. Elizabeth is shocked that she actually is finished her Nursing school.

R&E's part II

Sorry it took so long for this part 2 of our trip last weekend, It's kind of outdated but I'll add a couple more pics just for fun. Later this morning is Elizabeth Grad ceremony at Uvic so I will try and get a few pics from that. Here is a few more from last weekend.

Ryan and Elisa's for the weekend

This weekend we went to R&E's new place. It was kind of a spur of the moment trip but they graciously had us over. We had tons of fun!! When we first got there we went to Whiterock to eat dinner at a place called "Charlie Don't Surf". The food was good and it turned out to be a nice warm day. After dinner we walked around the pier for a while.


















After Whiterock we went to Ikea to have a look at everything ,we also checked out some cribs and baby stuff.After Ikea we went to R&E's to check out the crib( that is to say their home). I thought I took more pics of it but I guess not. Well I have more pics to add but stupid blogger isn't working right now so maybe a part two will be coming a bit later.