July 1st Barbecue

July 1st is the day Canada celebrates it's independence. They do it just like we do in America with parades, family barbecues, and fireworks. Here are some pictures of our Hawkins family barbecue. The weather is pretty similar to the weather at home, but this year we got rained out.

Rained Out

Due to the rain, all out door activities ended. Here are some pictures of the family passing on the time.
Tyson and Braxton didn't let the rain spoil their fun.

The power went out, which brought everyone up from the basement.

July 1st Parade 2008

Group photo with grandma.

Kelly, Sandra, Chad, and Kendal waiting for the parade to start.

Grandma and Sandra

Our nephew Chad and his girlfriend Kendal.

Close up of Easton after he face planted on the road. One of the many things you get use to having boys.

Tyler with his sister Lisa and our niece Taylor. Taylor is one of two girl cousins on this side of our family.

Tyler's sister LorRee and our nephew Jason.

Lisa, Marv, Taylor, and Cole waiting for the parade to start. Such a cute family.

One of five pictures of this shot. This is what happens when they all want to sit on your lap.

They mean business.

I told Kayden that his tattoo only half worked because he is only half Canadian. He didn't like that too much. I think he wants to move to Canada.

Aunt Lisa enjoying Easton as he reaches for his candy.

Relief that he finally has it in his hands.

They always have both an American flag and Canadian flag in the parade.

Taken by me.

Hutterite colonies are big in Canada. Here are a group of hutterite women walking after the parade.

Baseball In Canada

Every year that we go to Canada, Tyler has a few items that must come. This year we had to leave the baby stroller and the baby travel bed at home. Can you guess what took priority over poor Easton. Number one being the Golf clubs and number two being the bag with all the baseball gear. I guess I can be glad that he left the batting helmet at home. If he didn't we might have had to leave one of our children in Canada. It has been great having the batting gear to help pass on a little down time. It is a small town and we do need to find way's to keep the kids out of the house. Here are a few pictures, wait, more then a few pictures of the ball players.

Easton is still just a spectator.

Look at how intense. I'm not sure if he hit the ball, but with a face like that I sure hope he did.

Tyson waiting for dad to pitch the ball.

Even at three you can take the game serious.

Tyson played catcher while grandpa pitch to Braxton. He kept throwing the ball at the ground instead of to grandpa because he was afraid that he would hurt grandpa's face.

Grandpa being a good sport. He did get tired after having to pick the ball up so much.

Braxter

Braxton loved playing out field with his dad.

Yes, this is another day.

I love how serious they all are.

I love how cute he is.

He loves getting his picture taken.

Jason was such a great sport considering it was 100 degrees. OK, maybe only 95.

Tyler trying to look innocent as I tried to tell him that we all needed to get something nice and cold to drink. Like maybe a slurpie from the gas station.

The out field looking not so ready for the ball. I think it was because they knew Tyler was up to bat.

My little spectator. He was covered in red dirt. I guess I could call him the bat boy.

Mom had to put a end to the game after Easton decided to shower in the dirt.