Tidbits

Hello, blogworld. We are officially halfway through our summer holidays; therefore I shall check in with you and catch you up on our lives.  (In other words, I shall dump all the photos that were sitting in my camera.)

Here goes!

These little cuties led the way for my friend Bethany to walk 

down the aisle and marry Scott, the love of her life.

And THESE little cuties celebrated at the party afterward!

At our local Artwalk weekend, Ben discovered spray paint art.

The guy running this booth was so great.  He let Ben

do most of it ....

except the fancy stuff.

And .... the final product!!  Cool, eh?

So let me tell you about the big project of our summer - solar panels.  

No, actually don't let me.  Because it was tedious enough to live through - retelling it would require more energy than I have left.  In a nutshell:  Our backyard has been stripped of two beautiful maple trees, we have new shingles on our roof and the south half of our house is now covered in glass rectangles that, if all goes as planned, will make us enough money to thoroughly spoil our grandchildren someday.

Just a few of the amazing guys who came and helped my honey

put up the new roof.

Now I will tell you about our camping trip up north.

No, maybe I won't.  Heehee.  Actually,  I will.  We went with our friends the Lanes and, as always, managed to drum up lots of adventure and intrigue.  Some of the adventures were delightful and fun (eg. playing death ball in the cool refreshing lake which was located a convenient 2 minute walk from our campsite).  Some of them were frustrating and almost scary (eg. watching our roof top carrier bags fly off the van and into the centre of the highway) (or listening to some really loud raccoons snuffle and snort around our tents at night and then finding out the next morning that there was a bear in our part of the campground). One of our less pleasant adventures involved frequent rainfall and a large tarp.  The guys strategically placed it over our eating area BEFORE the rain started (camping pros) but once the precipitation hit, we all realized that said tarp was actually full of holes.  Most of them right above the picnic table area.

Laurie and I came up with the brilliant idea of wadding up little pieces of

plastic bag and stuffing them into the holes.  Problem:  little pieces

of wadded up plastic act as funnels for falling rain.

Brother Todd in his element - preparing a rugged tent pole
to hold up the tarp and drain the nasty rainwater.

I don't know what Duncan is doing here, but he's probably wet

while he's doing it.

The two Emma's taking their turn at supper dishes.  Do dishes ever really get
clean while you're camping??  Not in that little bucket of water, they don't.

To finish off, I will just throw in a few shots of Ben's life - he's clearly not getting an ulcer or anything 

this summer.

 

Ben and Lulu having couch cuddles.

The ultimate good life - Mom serves spaghetti and salad to
the boy in the bathtub.

Couldn't resist this hilarious picture of Scout, Ben's leopard

ghecko.  Peeking at us from behind his rock!

Well, there you have us.  In all our summer glory!  Hope you're having a great holiday too, wherever you are!