Summer Travels - Part 1

Hello everyone, yes I know it has been a while since we updated - it has been a busy summer. Here are some of the photos we took while in NB:

DoT and Grandpa M with E...
















Great-Aunt L and Great-Uncle F visit the girls as they eat that nutritional snack - cheesies!

















E peeps out from the doorway...
















The girls model the hats Uncle J bought them (he is in Oklahoma).
















A family shot from Great Grandma's 90th birthday party (or as the girls called her - great big grandma).
















Walking down to the river....
















The traditional NB greeting - leis and ballet skirts

















A walking up the road towards Grandma M's house

















DoT and his brothers walk (swing) the girls down the road
















Uncle P with the girls...
















The girls enjoy KD on their new trays from Great-Aunt D

















Hard at work in Grandma's pool
















E waits for mom
















The girls entertain at the party
















Playing in the tunnel at McDonald's (or Ronald Donald's as they call it).
















E enjoys watching her new friend M play a game
















A hams it up for the camera

















DoT with Great Grandma and A

















The girls present Great Grandma with flowers (notice A's curtsie)
















Cousin J and Great-Aunt K

















Great-Grandma and the girls
















E hams it up for the camera
















The girls get a reprieve from the long van ride back to Ottawa (stopping at Tims of course).

















Uncle J and the girls
















DoT's Mom and Dad

Enjoying summer

Hi again all --

So, we've been busy enjoying summer now that it has finally arrived. We had a wet spring here and it feels like it has only warmed up and dried off in the last couple of weeks. So we've been taking full advantage.

Two weekends ago we returned to the Proulx family farm, but this time for strawberry picking. The girls enjoyed picking the strawberries, but even more so they liked eating them (as you can tell from E's shirt and A's mouth in this picture...

And of course while we were at the farm we had to go down the "big slide" a bunch of times too. Here are the girls and I trying to avoid the tree at the bottom of the slide. A's hat had just blown off so she was a bit distracted...

We've also enjoyed the slide and swings at our local parks...

The girls have graduated from the steps to climbing the ladder, or scaling the rock wall, to get to the slide. I'm a bit more nervous about this than they are...

We also bought them tricycles this year, and they love putting on their (too big) helmets and pedalling around the neighbourhood..

Finally, we spent Canada Day by a friend's pool (thanks CB!) enjoying the sun and their barbeque. It took a long time to coax the girls into the pool, but once they'd tried it out we had a hard time getting them out. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of them in the pool, but here's one of E wearing her "cape" (they both thought it was fun wearing their towels like capes that afternoon).

Happy belated Canada Day, everyone. And happy 2nd Family Day (July 2nd), A & E!!!

K.