Camp Goodtimes

HI it's me Aidan.  I had a really GREAT time and can't wait to go again next year.

I really do think that it is a SPECIAL place for Cancer survivors and fighters.  I went Kayaking, I played minute to win it, met new friends,  and saw old friends. 

When I first got there I was afraid I wasn't going to know anyone just like last year.  I saw some familiar faces and got very excited.  The friends were Dustin, Owen and Adian we shared the same cabin last year.  In this picture is Aubrey, Alex, Shane, Ben and Mitch they were my cabin mate, skips and leaders and training.

A bunch of us caught tadpoles and two toads but then we let them free. ( I wonder if Simba my cat would have liked to eat them).

As usual the food was GREAT!,  They had Casino night and I donated all the money that I won to Free the children.  My skip from last year, Adam is now a P.A. it is pretty cool that he is one of the group leaders.

That is all for now I am happy to be home.  When I got home my cousin Grayson from Toronto was here.  We are heading to Calgary on friday and stopping in Drumheller to check out the Dinosaurs.  will keep everyone posted.

Camp Goodtimes 2012

We dropped Aidan off on July 16 at Loon Lake for Camp Goodtimes.  he is getting checked over for lice.  As soon as we dropped  him off I already started missing him.  Have fun at camp my little one!

I know he is going to have so much fun, kayaking, archery, high ropes good friends, good food, swimming, Carnival night just a whole lot of fun.  I will post pics if Aidan took any pictures.  He will have MineCraft withdrawal because there are no electronics allowed.

Woodland Zoo-Seattle

July 13th Suzanna and I traveled to Seattle with Aidan and Brandan.  I only packed shorts and Tshirts, what a mistake it ended up being Thunder, Lightning and hail.  Luckily the weather was good on Saturday for the zoo just thunder which sounded like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.  The Park was great, lots of animals but we didn't get to see all of them. We will have to go again.

Blood Work

Well we went to Oak and 25th Biomed to get Nurse Anna but she wasn't in.  Drag we were right beside the Hospital we should have just gone there instead.  Aidan has come such a long way since the first time he had to get blood work.   He had to get his counts to see where he was because the Nelarabine had brought his counts down and he is off to camp.  Nurse Karen called and all his numbers were GOOD!

KAYAKING

Its a video from the other day but I just wanted to add it to the batch

Balding for Dollars Quilts

Aidan had submitted an image to the Balding for Dollars Calendar.  He had the month of February.

On July 5 the Ladies from the Langley Quilters Group had donated quilts to all of the kids that had their images picked.  This is Aidan's  AMAZING  quilt he had received from Linda.

CRAB

Our Cooking Teenager is back in the house.  He was over at his friend Linton's watching the FoodNetwork .  He came home and said " I want to make a crab for dinner!"  We went to T&T and I let him pick out the crab.  It was very fiesty, Aidan put it in the sink with some water but wasn't sure he was going to be able to cook it since it kept grabbing at him.  Anyways Aidan did get it happening and we had yummy crab for dinner and ate outside on the deck.  We still need a BBQ.  ( hoping my husband will read the blog and get right to it.)

kayaking at Deer Lake Park

We got the boys Kayaks for the summer.  The family went out to Deer Lake Park. 

It is so nice that summer is now upon us but it was a tad toasty outside so we actually waited until 5:30 before we had gone out.  I was surprised that there wasn't more people out on the lake but I was happy that there was room to row.   The boys had a great time, we might have to make another trip down to Osoyoos see my parents and Kayak on the lake down there.

Camping

Paul, Aidan and Brandan went camping up in Squamish.  Bit of snow still up there plus they were able to do a fire.  Fire ban soon on its way

FRIENDS

Aidan's friends came by for a visit and happily he went along for a bicycle ride.

BCCH

Aidan went in on July 3 for Vincrisine and also some blood work.   His counts are slowly coming up so the doctors are going to increase his chemo dosage.  He had  a week of Prednisone so we had a week of him complaining of itchiness and of course moodness.

Canada Day in Osoyoos

We got to watch the Cherry Fiesta Parade from the rooftop followed by ice cream and of course Fireworks.

SUMMER BEGINS

We headed to Osoyoos for the start of the summer to go and visit Gong Gong and Poh Poh (Aidan and Brandan's grandparents)  Aidan is giving Poh Poh an IPAD tutorial.  We headed down to Haynes point for some fun in the sun.

That night around 6pm we got Hail, thunder and lightning. Aidan was trying to get a power surge.