Canada Day Celebrations

Still catching up......Now we are cruising through Canada Day:

We spent Canada Day weekend (July 1st) at my brother, Mark & sister-in-law, Carmen's place at Mable Lake near Enderby BC. We met my Mom, Nadyne up there. What a great time to celebrate family and this great country we live in.

These clouds were to tell the tale of the weekend. Lots of rain, on and off....

Beautiful area....

Happy Canada Day!!

From bottom left.....

Kathy, Jasper, Carmen, Mark, Nadyne, Doug, Jasper & Josh.

Me and my momma.

You can see by the marks on this stump just how 

high the water can get in the early spring!

Jasper, in true fisherman form, underwear fishing.

Carmen & Gus.

Kathy, Carmen and yours truly.

Every party has to have a guard dinosaur on duty.

Out walking on the road behind the cabin....

Yes, puddles. Need I say more?

 

Carmen has used chalk board paint as her backsplash in her kitchen. Always a container of chalk available. Most entertaining for everyone!!

The "plug-in" centre for all the i-phones and things.

Great Grandma Nadyne, Jasper & Gus.

These boys do love their momma....

My nephew Daniel. The little the boys were fascinated by both he 

and his big brother Justin (below)

My fantastic sister-in-law, Carmen. She just loves having the little guys around 

as it reminds her of when Justin & Daniel were small. Here she is showing them 

how to decorate with the chalk on her backsplash.

We would get moments of sun like this and then the skies would open up.

Gus caught his first fish. He was SO excited.....

Thanks to Daniel for his infinite patience and help!

Great Grandma and her fisherman!!

Great Uncle Mark fried up that trout the next morning for breakfast.

That's a wrap!!

While it did indeed rain off and on all weekend, we still had so much fun at "The Cabin". As always with our group, we ate, ate more and then when we all said "we're so full", we ate even more. Drank lots of good wine, beer and pretty much anything else we could get our hands on. Our sincere thanks to Mark & Carmen for hosting the first annual "Tamas Reunion". Can hardly wait for next year.

Peace....

Thought for the Day: One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love and they hug you back even tighter. 

Summer is here!!

So, let's continue with our updating. I know, a tiny delay from the last post, but hey....I am working so it's a little hard. Here we go in the month of June, one of my personal favourite months......(Warning - lots of pictures) I know, I know, there is lots to catch up with!! (Go to the bathroom first, okay?)

First and most important, someone turned two years old!!!!! Happy Birthday to our beautiful Rudy!!!!

Happy Birthday Rudy - We L-O-V-E you SO much!!

 

Teagan & Shawn have a lovely VW Westfalia that belonged to his Grandpa Rudy. They have taken lots of little camping trips in it and safe to say Rudy loves it! 

Happy 2nd Birthday our beautiful Rudy!! 

Anyway, more fun times and camping.....

Foot shots......told you they were back....

My personal favourite flower. Dandelions. They are strong. They grow anywhere, in lovely manicured lawns, cracks in the pavement, against buildings in the concrete.

There is a resiliency I love..... 

This is how we started out on the June 16th weekend.....Friday night.

The new to us Ford Flex and Bigfoot.

This is where we ended up Saturday morning. Langley. We didn't get far. We realized as we were going that the lights weren't working. Yes, we checked all systems before we pulled out of storage.  Doug's brother, Don, helping us out with a lighting/wiring problem.

But we made it to Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park......

There's nothing these two do that we don't LOVE!!

Yup.....

 

Surprise 60th Birthday party for Grandma Nancy!!!

Just my style too...a camping birthday!!!

While we were out walking with the boys, Josh & Kathy decorated the campsite.....

Super fun!!!

Even little Bigfoot got in on the action!

....just the best birthday EVER!!!

Thanks Josh, Kathy, Gus & Jasper!!

Of course, from here, we rolled straight into Father's Day!!

Doug and I were both very fortunate to have had awesome Dad's, Arnold and Leslie. They worked so hard for their families. Built lives, homes, families. They taught us lessons (some of them hurt), rejoiced with us and celebrated all our little and big victories. We miss them both so much and wish, somehow, that they can look down on us and know we are well and that we love them and miss them both so much.

Meanwhile......I love these two guys so much. Both amazing Dad's. There is really something so very cool watching your kids become parents. I can't say enough about it. I love their relationship. There are SO many things that are similar about them (ha ha, right Kathy?).They are both friends and I think that is just something that is in my heart that is so very important.

Love you both.....

Meanwhile, back to these two little crazies!!

Grandma Nancy's craft centre.......

Gorgeous park......cold lake.

Gotta love a little static cling!!!

The weekend always ends like this. We have developed the routine of going by our local spray and wash and giving both the Flex (Doc Hudson) and Bigfoot a spray. We don't "wash" them but just spray off the dust.  Well worth the few extra dollars.

 Until next time......

Peace....

Thought for the Day: Enjoy the little things in life, because one day, you will look back and realize they were the big things.