After we returned from Maui in Feb we enjoyed watching the Olympics; but I have to admit we did not really get into the celebrations. We did go downtown one day to meet up with some of Jordan's family who were in town, but for the most part we enjoyed it from our house. Pretty lame.
March arrived and so did my parents. They came to help Griffin celebrate his 2nd birthday. It was pretty low key. As many of you may know, on Griffin's birthday I had a 5 hour job interview for the position that I have been waiting for the past 4 years. Luckily my parents stepped in to make the dinner and cake - in keeping with the family tradition it was my dad's spaghetti and my mum's chocolate fudge cake.
Jordan's mum, Allen and Jordan's sister and Matt were also able to join us to celebrate.
Jordan has not really had much down time since returning from Maui. Our tenants moved out at the beginning of December last year and we offered our place to Jordan's grandparents to move into. But before that could happen there was some major renovations that had to happen. The kitchen and bathroom were down to studs and Jordan has spent every weekend since working on it. I am afraid I was not much help except for painting when Griffin went to bed. It is coming along and we are almost finished. Jordan's grandparents arrived in the middle of July and their boxes arrived at the end of July. They are slowly unpacking and will move in soon. Some before and after (almost complete) pictures of the reno's.
I was fortunate to get the job that I interviewed for on Griffin's birthday. I am now working on my Canadian College of Medical Genetics Molecular Genetics Fellowship at Children's hospital in Vancouver. I finished up my post-doc at the beginning of June and took 3 weeks off to spend time with Griffin and to get some things done around the house. It may be hard for some of you to imagine, but I did not do one peice of work while off - almost a record for me. Unfortunately, the weather was not great, but when it was nice, Griffin and I spent it outside.
Griffin is becoming quite the shell and rock collector. He loves to explore the beach at low tide, and play in the tidal pools. He is not such a big fan of the seaweed or the muck but I am hoping that will grow on him.
I started my new job July 5th, the same day that my daycare lady went on vacation for 3 weeks. Luckily, we called my mum (Nana) in to the rescue. She came for the month of July to look after Griffin. They had a great time. I am now in the process of 'unteaching' Griffin all the things that Nana taught him like how to turn his playdo rolling pin into a pea shooter - thanks mum.
Here are some pics so far from the summer and I promise to update it more often.
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