Surprise Pictures / Photos surprises

Une amie de la famille, Denise, a photographié Louis-Pascal lors de notre voyage en République dominicaine en avril dernier. Elle a une formation en photographie et ajoute un aspect intéressant à ses photos par après. Elle nous a recement envoyé des photos... pas mal cute hein? On a hate de voir le restant!!
A family friend, Denise, took some pictures of LP while we were in the Dominican Republic in April. She has a degree in photography and is really good at adding creative designs to her pictures afterwards. She recently sent us the pictures she's been working on. Pretty neat stuff hun? What a nice surprise - can't wait to see the rest of them!!

MERCI DENISE!! THANK YOU DENISE!!

5 garçons! / 5 Boys!

La fin de semaine du mariage à Maxime et Amanda (Oui, le 12 juillet... Je suis en retard avec le blog!!), les cousins de Montréal à Christiane sont venu rester avec nous... ce qui veut dire que nous avons eu 5 garçons sous un même toît pour la fin de semaine! Ce fut plaisant. Marilyn avec ses deux garçons: Jean-Christophe (le plus agé... 3 ou 4 ans?) et Louis-Simon (3 semaines de plus agé que Louis-Pascal); et Mario et son épouse Geneviève avec leur jumeux Zachary et Mathis (3 mois plus agés que Louis-Pascal). Ces 5 beaux garçons nous ont diverti toute la fin de semaine! Voici quelques photos.
The weekend of Max and Amanda's wedding (Yes, July 12th... so I am WAY behind in making this posting), Chris' cousins from Montréal came and stayed with us... which meant we had 5 boys under one roof for the weekend! It was fun. We had Marilyn and her boys: Jean-Christophe (the oldest... and this is bad, is he 3 or 4??) & Louis-Simon (3 weeks older than LP); and her brother Mario and his spouse Geneviève, with their twin boys: Zachary & Mathis (3 months older than LP). Those adorable boys kept us entertained all weekend, it was fun! We really appreciated having them get to know each other. Here are a few shots of them together.

La piscine était populaire. Ci-dessous, LS et LP dans la piscine avec JC dans l'arrière-plan.
The pool and the bubbles were a hit. LS and LP is the pool with JC in the background.

Mais la porte du patio était l'activité la plus populaire... qui aurait cru avec tout ces jouets! Les garçons ouvraient et fermaient la porte, entraient et sortaient... sans arrêt. Il nous reste encore des traces de petites mains prêt de la porte dehors. Mignon.
But the patio door was the biggest hit for some reason... with all the toys around, it was apparently much more fun to open and close the door, and climb in and out from the deck to the house... who would have thought! We still have evidence of little hand prints on the outside sidding. Cute.

Et le temps des repas... hm, les bébés avant, et ensuite les adultes essayaient de se nourrire un peu entre les courses ici et là. On s'est nourrit avec beaucoup de collations cette fin de semaines là!

And meal time was... well the babies ate first, then the adults tried to attempt something of a meal in between all the running around. We had a lot of finger foods that weekend!

Ce fut plaisant la gang Cormier!! Venez nous visiter n'importe quand!
It was fun Cormier bunch!!! Come back to visit us anytime!

xox

Lac Killarney Lake

On est très chanceux d'avoir le lac Killarney à 2km de chez nous. C'est un beau petit lac avec une belle plagge, de bonne piste pour la marche avec des superbes vues de l'eau. Voici quelques photos de notre randonnée hier soir.
We are very fortunate to have Killarney Lake just 2km away from our house. It is a beautiful parc with a gorgeous lake and beach area, great trails with a wonderful view of the water through the forest. Here are a few shots of out after supper walk last night.

Tache adooooooore chercher des batons dans l'eau. Tache loooooves to fetch sticks in the water...

Tabarnouche de moustiques!! Darn mosquitos!!

Olivia & LP

This video is hilarious. We took it a couple of months ago and I completely forgot to post it - so here it is Stephanie!!

We had our friends Darrin, Stephanie and baby Olivia over for supper one evening and the babies were having fun with the new push-car I got LP. Olivia being the strong, busy charater that she is, was pushing the car, and LP being the easy-going, take it all in guy, was enjoying being pushed while munching on his cracker. This is so typical of their relationship, maybe that's why it's so funny to us. Unfortunately this is the only video we kept for some reason, the other ones where longer and funnier, Olivia pushing LP down the hall pretty hard while growling and LP was totally enjoying the ride, laid back, chillin'. This video is just a few seconds long, and LP ends up falling, crying and Olivia keeps going (all very typical of their relationship!!) and then me laughing... but it was so funny at the time!!

Louis-Pascal a 1 ans! / LP is 1 year old!

Nous sommes pas mal en retard à faire des ajouts sur le blog dernièrement!! On est ocuppé à apprécier notre été avec notre garçon qui grandit tellement vite.

This is a bit late posting!! We've been busy enjoying the summer with our little guy who's growing up so fast.

Louis-Pascal a eu deux fêtes pour son premier anniversaire, une avec sa famille et une avec ses amis. On s'est amusé! Louis-Pascal a pris ses premiers pas à 11 mois, mais il a commencé à marcher à pleine force la journée de sa fête - trop mignon! Voici quelques photos des deux journées...

So LP had 2 birthday parties... one with family, and one with friends. It was fun! Although he took his first steps at 11 months, the day of his birthday he decided to take off walking - it was pretty cute. Here are few pictures of both days...

Les 3 couples de grand-parents! All 3 sets of grandparents!

Parrain Beeb (le plus jeune frère à Jean-Michel) et Marraine Gigi (la plus jeune soeur à Christiane).

Godfather Beeb (JM's youngest simbling) and Godmother Gigi (Chris' youngest simbling). Hmmm!!

Louis-Pascal et sa copine Olivia - il aimait bien sa robe rose et ses souliers en argent!!

LP and his girlfriend Olivia. LP was liking that pink dress and those sparkly shoes!!

And the Hemens family came to celebrate with us from Truro, Nova Scotia, but the only cute pictures I have of the kids together are all of them in the bathtub... Not very appropriate for internet use! But THANK YOU so much for coming! LP had a blast getting to know the kids and we really enjoyed spending time with you again.