Our Summer Holiday part 2

Well its about time. The second part of our holiday. We had an awesome week at Pioneer Pacific family camp on Thetis Island. Great friends of ours showed us their video from last year and we were sold. We loaded up the minivan and embarked our adventure.

They had so many activites for the boys. Archery was very popularas was the water trampoline. Joel enjoyed the ocean and all the animals he found there.

Josh and James enjoyed tubing and making new friends.

I enjoyed not cooking or doing dishes and relaxing at the late night cafe.

Joe didn't enjoy what happened to our van on the way home. :( but it is all fixed now :)

A great summer holiday!

Well, it's been awhile but finally the update with our summer holiday pictures. We left K'town on July 25th and headed straight for Parksville, BC.

A first trip on the ferries for the boys - not quite as exciting as they had hoped but they made it more fun with silly faces.

And then a first visit to the ocean. Joel was totally impressed - who would have thought one could play with the jellyfish. The next day was spent at the beach collecting small crabs

and skim boarding.

It was Joe's birthday so we finished up the day with a seafood extravaganza dinner (fresh salmon, prawns and scallops purchased at the harbour) followed with blackberries and peaches over angelfood cake - I really should have taken pictures but we were too hungry.

A special tour from Uncle Corey the next day and some more beach combing

and then off to Thetis Island and Pioneer Pacific Family Camp.

And we'll save that for another post.

Sunshine and Rain

Well, we have had quite the weather lately.

Temperatures so hot one felt like hiding inside or at least staying wet outside. We had cousins visit from Alberta and they got to see the sunshine. And now it hasn't stopped raining for 3 days so we got creative

and had fun in the very large puddles around our place.

We are hoping the rain is over now because, although the grass is very green, it is also very long.

Camping

This past week was our first family camping trip.

The scenery was beautiful. The weather was perfect. The wildlife was abundant. The cave exploring was thrilling. The sleep times were refreshing. The bike rides were exciting. The good reads were relaxing. A good time was had by all!!!!

Our Sweet Kitty Tasha

The boys wanted our next post to be about our new kitten. A week after Joel's birthday the families got together to celebrate Emma and Joel's birthday.

We surprised them with a kitten each, one for Joel, one for Emma.

The look on their faces was priceless.

It is our intention for her to be an outdoor cat once she is old enough and for her to catch lots of mice. So far her favorite toy is a stuffed mouse(actually Templeton the Rat from Charlotte's Web) so it bodes well. She also likes to keep a close eye on our pet hamster - Hammy.

A First Try

Auntie Donna says I must post something so here goes.



Hi Auntie Donna from Joanne, Joe, James, Joel and Josh.


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