Rebekah is 1 year old!

Rebekah turned one last Friday. Friday the 13th- but it was not an unlucky day! We were in Vancouver on her Birthday, but actually celebrated her Birthday on Sat. in Victoria with Kyle's parents. I have posted a few photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/STelmoART/November2009#. Vancouver was beautiful, with awesome snow capped mountains towering above skyscrapers along the ocean, but I didn't really get any good pictures of that. Rebekah did really well traveling there as well. Kyle had some meetings there for work, and we came along. We stayed in a neat hotel on Granville Island, an artsy kid friendly part of Vancouver. For her Birthday we decided not to do the majorly sugary cake, and had strawberry shortcake instead. She actually didn't get as messy as I expected. She got a lot of books, which is good because she really loves books. It is hard to believe she is a year, yet hard to believe she has changed so much in only a year. She is starting to say words now besides "da da", she now says "doggie", "teddy" and other things that I think we can't quite make out yet. She is lots of fun.

a few photos

me and Rebekah waiting for the torch last Friday morning.


The big olympic torch celebration in the evening in front of the Government building (we left before the protesters got there... at least we didn't see any).



Close up of the stage for the torch celebration.




Beautiful views of the sunrise from our condo balcony.