Kava in Edmonton

Of course the visit had to have a Kava night! My family got to enjoy Kava again (first time at Erick and Michelle's wedding) and this time with a traditional bowl known as a Tanoa and serving cups, bilo.

kava night edmonton sebastian sept 2009

My favorite pictures of our time in Edmonton

Ok well not all my favorite but definitely in my top 20...

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Edmonton

I decided I need sometime away which is funny considering that I have been away for almost 4 years, but after all that has been happening in the family I decided I needed to see Josie and the family. The girls have been missing Ceva and we have been missing them so off we went to Edmonton....

edmonton sebastian 2009

Stan joined us later in the week as a surprise for Chris and the girls, that was a hard secret to keep, but totally worth it!

overwhelmed

Well the family has been feeling overwhelmed. Grandma passed away which was hard on the family and then 5 days later her sister whom she talked to every night! passed away in Calgary. It has been a sad and reflective time for our family.

Goodbyes

Today our family said goodbye to our Grandma Emily "Peggy" Petersen. She passed away this morning.

Peggy Petersen
June 10 1920 - Aug 14 2009

Peggy

Our stuff is here!!!!

Our container arrived from Fiji...

our container!

A meal from Home!

Stan is soooooo happy, he found some Taro leaves at a little family grocer and came home to make a traditional dish...

Lu-Sipi

Sand

Stan's friend Emre, Stan and Sebastian hanging out at the beach...

Hanging out at the beach

Steveston Fishing boat

Dad has been a volunteer at the Britannia shipyard and they just launched the boat that they have been restoring...

grandpa helping to launch the Queen Anne

Daddy's little helper

Sebastian, Stan and mom and dad doing some gardening...

daddy's little helper

Canadian Coast Guard

We heard some really loud weird noise on the river....

sebastian august 11 2009

Dinner

Sebastian has discovered that he was definitely a caveman at some point...

dinner!

Photos of our family

sebastian aug 3 2009

Harvest

We have some great neighbors that love to share home grown veggies from their gardens! This is what Sebastian collected...

harvest

Lots of Pics

Click on the picture to all the photos!

july 22 09 sebastian

Talking to the HT's, gnawing on a bone, view from balcony

sebastian july 8 2009

The Rose garden at UBC

rose garden

Ceva getting reading for our outing

Pics of baby

Peaceful sleeping baby....

hang out

Hello

Well we have been a little sick with the poopiedups but are on the mend. Here are some pictures to tied you over till we are all up and at it again!

Sebastian july 6th 2009

Here are some pictures from our Canada day celebration at Erick's house

walking running fishing

We like to go for a walk every day, today we went after dinner. Dad, Stan, Ceva and I went for a walk, well Stan ran and we walked ran. As we approached the 1/2 way point of our walk we came to a fishing pier. We had a great experience of watching a young man catch and release a Sturgeon about 4-5 feet long, here are some pictures of the fish...

july 3 2009