Summer Rocks!

All I can think of this picture is that Jaden looks like a deer with his leg up like that? lol

The girls playing in the sand at Rotary Park.

Here's a quick pic of our new house in Whitecourt.

Having a water fight in the backyard!

Ahhh.... looking older and older every day!~

As mentioned in my previous post, this blog is going to be all about us and the kids, our friends and families :) My business blog is now over at www.photographybyadrienne.ca/blog and that will be where I will post session updates, promotions, and client previews.

So I can't help thinking the last few days how awesome summer time is! We go on schedule and off whenever it suits us best.... love that the kids sleep in some mornings and I have that peace and quite time in the morning while I browse facebook, ebay, etsy etc... some mornings the kids are dragging me out of bed for breakast, usually after a late evening out, or a full day in the sun. Either way, it's all good.

We are somewhat settled into our new house and making it our permanent home. It feels so right and so good. There's a lot of things we want to do inside the house but we'll wait until fall to tackle those projects. This past weekend we had another garage sale (yes 'another' one this summer! ha!) Knowing now that we are here to stay meant we could part with some of our things, and go through ALL of our boxes, some of which have been in storage for the past 6 years! I don't want to see another brown box with my black writing on it saying which room, and what's in it for a VERY long time! So our garage is taking shape, and it will be so nice to get the kids into a warm car in the morning come this winter, thx to the in floor heat!

Half the summer is now over and we've been very busy. We did a bit of camping and our last weekend in the camper was out at Beaver Lake for our family fish derby. We knew that it might not be as easy as last year, as our baby is now mobile and into everything! It was a bit challenging but we did have a lot of fun. Jaden and Avery played and played, and Cohen ran and climbed. Rene and I followed, chased, caught, cleaned and cooked ;) Thank God for the evenings when we could sit in our camping chairs with a beer and enjoy the fire. Jaden got to go in the boat with my dad for a few hours and he caught a fish right away. It was entered into th grandchild/grandparent category and they won 3rd place!

Both Jaden and Avery did 2 weeks of swimming lessons at the Millar Centre, which went really well. They were both scared to put their faces in the water to start with and in the end, they both can float and hold their breath under water! They loved going, which made it really easy to go twice a day for 2 weeks, and Cohen really liked going to the daycare that is provided at the center for parents who remain in some part of the building. I can see that we will be taking advantage of the millar centre a lot this year.

Here are a few pictures that I snapped yesterday at Rotary Park and around the yard. With Cohen being so wiggly and needing a diaper bag for him along with all the rest of the 'stuff' we need to spend a few hours outside at the park, it's rare that I get the chance to bring my camera out too...but since my sister Alix is living with us she SO KINDLY offered to watch Cohen while we went to the park, so I traded him for the camera for a couple of hours :) THX ALIX!!!! He is SO busy right now and having someone help out with him is just a huge help. We went with our new friends who live a few houses down, who have 2 very sweet kids. It's great having a family to hang out with, and it's almost freaky how similar we all are! Though our kids don't match up in ages they do play really well togeher. So *cheers* to summer and to family and friends :)