Meet our triplets!

Yesterday Don went into Vancouver airport to pick up our international students: Bruce, Sam, and Nick. They are all 10 or 11 years old and we are pleased and surprised at how much English they can speak and understand even on their first day here. I'm sure they'll be able to learn a lot of English during their classes.

They're in the same class at school so they know each other really well and get along great. We're looking forward to a great 3 weeks!

Within 10 minutes of walking through our front door, this is what they were doing:

And then later they played Wii with the girls. They also brought their own fun electronic entertainment: Sam has an Ipad 2 (Don is jealous!) and Nick has an adorable Winnie the Pooh cell phone (Haley is jealous!).

Last night I put out a huge spread of food for our family and the three boys, not knowing exactly how much food would be consumed on a regular basis. I made some Chinese food that Jimmy taught me how to make, Don barbequed hamburgers, we had chips, veggies, and lemonade. Each boy ate 1 hamburger and that is all. We had tons of leftovers, which I normally don't have.

This morning they were up bright and early, but I think it's just that their internal clocks are still off from traveling half-way around the world. They had homemade blueberry muffins for breakfast and they ate those heartily.  At 8:30 we loaded them all up into the van and drove them to their first day of school. Today they're at school all day but from this point on they'll spend the morning doing English lessons and then they'll do something fun in the afternoons. It's a great program and the boys are lucky to have such a great opportunity.

Welcome to Canada, boys!