Camping!

Me and my girls!

Here we are at the edge of Buffalo Lake at Ol' MacDonald's Resort. We were there for a week and made lots of great family memories. Here are just a few! Enjoy!

Sisters and friends!

The friends part... well.. lets just say they are friends that love each other and also fight with each other on occasion.

On this day, the funny moment was when they figured out the water guns. Here was the play of events:
- Eden squirts Kyleigh.
- Eden laughs her head off.
- Kyleigh runs away crying.
- Kyleigh (with help from Dad) figures out how to load her water gun.
- Kyleigh squirts Eden.
- Kyleigh laughs her head off.
- Eden? Crying!!!
- Mom and Dad? Laughing!
- Start again at the beginning... more laughing and crying.
- Squirt guns are removed from the beach toy collection!

It was so much fun to have visitors drop in on us this year! Our good friend Carrie joined us for supper and roasted marshmallows. You always make us smile, Carrie!

Auntie Chelsea, Uncle Andrew, Corbin and Berkley came to visit us at Ol' MacDonald's (see Corbin and Eden in the background?) Really nice of the Sheers to drive all the way from Calgary! So much fun to hang out with them!

Getting ready to throw shoes into the bucket. Incentive? A free ride on the ever popular merry-go-round!

Consider this the 'before' picture. A large pile of sand, a shovel and a magician named Will. Two hours later....

And... voila! The finished product!

AMAZING to me that someone can transform a loose pile of sand into something that looks like it was carved out of wood! My brain does not work this way, so I sure enjoy watching Will create his creations every year. It's one of my favorite traditions!

Here we are - by our creation and having had a fun day at the beach together. A fun family memory made on this day!

Kyleigh in heaven. She told me the other day... "Mommy. I don't want to be a people. I want to be a horse."

The pure innocence and joy of childhood.

What's camping without authentically charred hot dogs?

We rode bikes everywhere - to the train, the park, the bathrooms, you name it - Eden and Kyleigh pedaled their way there! They made me run a lot - good for burning off some of the smores I ate!

a new friend!

can you see them in the caboose? This is one of our favorite traditions.

Hi Mom!