Oh what a summer!

This has been written for a while and I just forgot to post it. Without further ado - a review of our summer.


It's been quite the summer! We had such a blast this summer

First, 

My cousin Ashley came for the summer

And a downside

I got hand foot mouth disease. That aside.....

The kids had a blast playing at some splash pads 

And don't forget the slip and slide in the back yard!

Most exciting - we bought a trailer! Every time Dave was home from work we would go camping. It was quite the fun experience

Also, we went camping a few times near a beach so of course we had to hit it up!!!

We also took Ashley to jasper to see the mountains. It was such a fun weekend!

Austin had a blast throwing rocks in the water with his friend Mila

And we got to witness this: big horned sheep eating a truck. The guy jumped out to take a picture of all the sheep, left his door open, and this sheep thought he would check it out and have a snack. I said its a good thing we shut our doors, or we would never get them out of the van with the amount of goldfish crackers in the backseat. 

 

baby in a hotel room

Lets not forget our trip to calgary. I went down to do the color me rad 5k. We brought the whole family with us. I had a blast

This was my heck yeah I finished the race face. It was a little touch and go for a bit.

And probably my most favourite picture ever. 

While we were in calgary we went and checked out the zoo. They had pictures of all the flooding they sustained. I had no idea that half the zoo was on an island! Obviously it being only a month after the flooding the part of the zoo on the island was still closed. They were saying it will take up to 5 years and close to 5 million dollars to recover from the flood. So crazy. 

Austin loved the penguins! He would have sat there all day watching them. 

Also, this picture is of their penguin who had an infection in his foot and it was being rubbed raw. They ordered him special penguin booties to prevent that, but they didn't fit. So, they improvised using beer cozies. You can see one foot cozied in the picture. How cute is that. 

Overall the kids had a blast this summer I'm sure, and I even had a pretty good time too. 

Happy long weekend!

Happy Long weekend everyone!

Yesterday we went to the Bowmanville zoo with Dave's parents. We had a great time and so did Austin. Except for one point, a goat tried to eat him. The goat stuck his head through the fence and tried to nibble on Austin but couldn't grab anything so he finally got a bite into his pocket on his pants and tried to pull Austin back to the fence. He was not happy with that and started crying. Then one of the baby goats got out of the fence and was wandering around so since it was the same size as buster the cat we tried to put him beside it for a picture. He cried. He may end up with a huge fear of goats for the rest of his life now..lol.

We bought some of the corn out of the machines and I got a few pictures of me holding out Austin's hand and getting the animals to eat off his hand. He mainly wanted to eat the corn himself. He would just sit for the longest time and stare at the animals. There weren't many tears so I'm assuming he had fun. As usual, here are some pictures.

First Animal of the day

I think this is a great picture

Feeding the animals

The ram stuck his head through the fence to see Austin


Austin and Mommy

Austin Grandma and the baby goat

Austin not happy with the baby goat!

Telling the llama he needs some dental work.

Hitching a ride on Grandpa

Enjoying every minute of it.

An animal trying to get the corn out of Austin's clenched hands.

succeeding in getting it out.

Happy smiles!

After the zoo we went back to Dave's parents and played in the backyard. Austin had a blast playing ball and we got some great pics of him trying to stand.

I *LOVE* these 2 pictures. So adorable.

*101 in 1,001 update: I have finished pretty in plaid by Jennifer Lancaster. Very funny, thanks to vicki who reccomended the books and let me borrow them. I am working on another one of her books as we speak. I've also been somewhere other than ontario or Quebec (my alberta trip a few weeks ago) and I think that's it. I will update more as I do them!*