What do you do when you've been locked up in your house for two days straight...whatelse you go to the ZOO!!!

So the Robertsons survived another bout of sickness in our house this time it was the stomach flu. Most disgusting 48 hours of my life and even worse being pregnant. Never thought my abs would hurt that much...I've had some hard ab workouts but nothing compares to throwing up for 2 days.

On Tuesday morning, I received a nice phonecall from my friend, Karen, wondering if we should venture out to the Aldergrove Zoo (part of the Greater Vancouver Zoo) with Sam and Liam for the morning. After being in our house for 2 days it was a blessing to get out and enjoy the fresh air and I am sure Liam appreciated being entertained by animals rather than mom lying on the couch pretending to play.

It took us 45 minutes to get there but worth the drive time as the weather was beautiful, a balmy 27 degrees out, and the boys were in good spirits. We were able to see bears, lions, tigers, zebras, so many exotic animals but the boys seemed quite content looking for ducks, cows (cattle from around the world) and anything that resembled a horse got a loud 'Neigh!' from Liam and Sam --> so basically zebras, donkeys, antelopes...all got the same response.

The boys were great, we had a fantastic morning outdoors and of course it lead to a nice 3 hour long nap. wooohooo can't beat that.

So here's a few photos that captured our trip to the zoo. Enjoy!

Karen, Sam, Liam and I checking out the ostriches.

Neigh!!! It's a zebra silly!

The giraffe was a highlight to many!

Shadow the Grizzly bear waiting for some small child to fall in.

The animals in the back of the car!

Hopefully next post I can get some audio of Liam as his vocabulary has simply exploded in the last few weeks. He's now an official Pete the Repeat. Watch out!!

Liam, Mo and Matt

Dr.Matt Graduates!

Can you believe I have been writing this blog for almost two years now?!! It is pretty crazy to think we have been in Chilliwack for almost 2 years and we bought a house, had a kid, are expecting another, Matt has become a full fledged doctor, we've experienced plus 35 days here in the summer, we smell the awful smell of money (re: massive amount of manure spraying) twice a year...need I go on?

Melanie and Jay's dog, Gus, with a not so tiny Liam!

Excuse the delay in blogging as the computer has been doing some funny business the last few weeks and refused my attempt to put photos up until today. Must be all the nasty things I said about it yesterday night and now it feels bad. :)

So this past Friday, Matt and I got a babysitter and headed out to the Annual Chilliwack Family Medicine Resident Graduation Banquet. Yep it's official Matt is now a certified Family Medicine Physician!! For those that know Matt they know how many years he has been in school for now to get to this day...for those that don't know him that far back think Liam's age multiplied by 10...haha kidding kind of.

Chilliwack Family Residents

It was a great evening filled with lots of laughs but a little air of sadness as well as the completion of this program begins to sink in. In two years you make some serious friendships as most residents here don't have their families close by so we become each others' families. So through babies being born (5 while we've been in Chilliwack), finding jobs, meeting significant others, moving, it is a pretty BIG time in our lives as so many meaningful things have happened. It will be a crazy summer for us as we expect baby number two but so many of our friends will be moving away to start a new chapter in their lives...so I guess a new part starts for us as well.

Finally a good couples photo!!

As the Chilliwack Program comes to an end for Matt and his collegues a new crop of residents will emerge next week here in the 'Wack. I can only hope they have a great experience as we have had here in terms of the friendships made and the introduction to this 'Small Rural Town'.

Dave, Simone, Monique and Matt

Thanks to Sheila for doing my make up for me that night...I got to say I don't look too shabby for being 6 months prego!

Love,

Matt, Mo and Liam