Sunday Family Fun Day

A beautiful September Sunday! Who knows how many more days like these we will have left?

We decided to try to make the best of it!

Hanging around...

A stop at Starbucks for Strawerries and Cream

Walking the labyrinth

Father/Son chat

Climbing rocks

Climbing Trees

My favorite flowers

Hopefully next sunday will be just as nice!

Long Weekend Fun

Today was spent in St. Pierre-Jolys for the "Frog Follies" Festival.

Just the hubby and I went as we were invited to attend the VIP wine and cheese event before the frog jumping competition. This is a rather strange tradition but sure was fun to watch.

Here is the hubby "prepping" his frog at the starting line






And here they are mid race



The weather was cooperative and the turn out was pretty good. Poor hubby and his froggy friend (his name was "mon petit ami") didn't win any medals this year so we headed home and hung out in the backyard.

The highlight was the setting up of the tent that hubby bought and he and the two littlest are camoping out tonight.





They were SO excited!! This made for a rather quiet evening for me (thus my blog update on the actual day I took the photos) and now, I am headed to bed.

Tomorrow ends the long weekend but we have yet to decide how we will spend the day. Folklorama? The park? The Forks? Shopping? We'll see what the weather is like, perhaps. Let's hope for some more sunshine!!

Family Fun Day -- June 6

On the 6th of June, we had a family BBQ to kick off the summer (although it didn't really FEEL like summer...bbrrr!) and to celebrate the visit of my SIL from Alberta. She and her husband come out to Manitoba to visit us so rarely that a get-together was a-given.

Here they are...buddled up to stay warm.



Here is a shot of our host, my BIL



And yet another brother-in-law (my hubby has 4 brothers!!) and his girlfriend. This was the first time she has joined us for a big gathering and she seemed to just fit right in.



Trampoline fun






The little man...dirty dirty dirty (as always)



Here is the youngest one in the group. SO cute!!

With the girlie...the baby hog. She asked all daylong to hold the baby! I guess she comes by her baby obsession honestly considering what I do for a living. LOL

Here is my niece with her boyfriend

Aren't they cute?!?

And a shot of the gang setting up the fireworks for later (no...that is not a real shot gun in my eight year olds hand! It's an airsoft rifle and the boys spent the better part of the day shooting pop cans. Sigh...what's a mother to do?)

And THIS is my favorite shot of the day! My hubby doing his best imitation of the teenager. Uncanny resemblance!!




Food, family, fun and fireworks! What better way to spend a cold dready Saturday? Thanks everyone for a great day!

Birthday Weekend

Saturday, March 14th was my hubby's birthday. We had a fairly low key (at his request) but here is one of my favorite shots of the day.

Daddy/daughter



Here is the birthday "boy" and the cake we had for him that day.



Then, on Sunday, we had the extended family over for dinner and cake to celebrate both hubby's birthday, and The Bear's (which is tomorrow)

Here is a gratuitous cute shot of the youngest member of the clan



And the birthday boys blowing out their candle

Happy Birthday to two of my favorite guys!!

Monday monday..

Buried under a mountain of laundry and tending to a sick girlie...this is all I got today. My hubby... sportin' his Mickey Mouse chef's hat that I bought him while in Disney World.

Here he is in his element...cooking for his family with his little sidekick. What a great dad!!