My Garden

I wanted to post some pictures from our garden. We planted some sunflowers, some have red in them and they look like sunset...we also planted some that will be 10-14 ft tall but they haven't flowered yet. I also got some African sunset climbing Black eyes Susans that climb up the posts out front and look great.

I haven't posted in a while, it's been busy. Tracey, Kaylie and Hannah were visiting so between their visit and the kids' activities, there was alot on the go. Tracey managed to make one soccer game for each of her neices and nephews. It was sad to see them go, we may have shed a tear or two but it was great to see them. Elysia and Graham were both quite upset, Graham wanted to know why we couldn't just all live in the same province...things are so simple to a nine year old.

Friday night Janet, Steve, Owen and Parker were in the valley. Janet and Owen came to Elysia's soccer game (we got a little wet) and then they spent the night. Janet and I went to Joe's in Wolfville to relive some of our Acadia days...some scot skins, which were delish and then a walk and drive around town...we saw the old "pink" house (which is now blue) where our husbands once lived together...actually they lived more at our house but had you seen the pink house you would have stayed at our place too...it was a landfill in the making.

The weekend was busy, both kids were playing in the New Minas soccer tournament. Elysia played one Friday night (yeah, it rained) and two on Saturday (it poured during the second game...1 win and two losses and two wet parents and two soaked kids. Graham played three games today, they lost all three but they sure have come a long way. Their passing and their thinking about what to do with the ball has greatly improved. Their coach, David (Connor's dad) told them if they played hard, he would go down the soap/water slide that was set up there and he did. The kids got quite the kick of it. Needless to say we are soccered out. Graham only has his closing night and Elysia has one practice and one game left. Graham still has some baseball to keep us busy though.

Perfect picture

I love this picture!! The kids have pure happiness on their faces...isn't that what being a kid is all about. They had run to the water to test it out and apparently it was a little cool.

Sat night in the valley

This is a picture of all of us in a place called Cathedral Grove in BC...where they have the biggest trees...note the new family picture from the same site.



We had a great Sat night in the valley. We all went to Grandma's house for a get together. Grandma had rented a bounce kingdom, which apparently she got in when it was just her and Tracey there, Tracey laughed so hard at the look of terror on mom's face that she almost peed her pants. The kids all had alot of fun in the bounce kingdom and their little legs should be tired. Poor Elysia ended up with a migraine yesterday, she gets the whole aura of a blind spot before hand...after the second ibuprofen she was feeling better though.





Tracey's friend, Jackie explained to Graham, Mitchell and his friend Dylan how to play Nicky, Nicky Nine door...so they waited until Mitchell's grandfather had gone home and played it on him....they laughed the whole way back to the house.





We had some good laughs, some good food and some good drinks--Beerguerita's, which are a jug (yes, cause only a jug will do) of marguerita and then you put a Corona upside down in it...cause apparently the Tequilla in the Marguerita is not enough alcohol...





Hope it doesn't rain too much today cause I have laundry to get done up to the ying yang and of course, my not so generous company that I work for does not take tomorrow off! AGH! And to think the owner once said that he wants the company to be one where people are proud to work there...yeah, not so much!

Long Beach

While we were in BC, we rented a house on the west coast of the island not too far from Tofino. We spent two days on a beautiful beach called Long Beach, which is aptly named. The first day it was quite windy (actually we kind of got sandblasted), so we spent most of the day in the shelter of the logs, just relaxing in the sun...did however, learn that the lens on a camera does not like beach sand (always wanted a new one anyway...haha). The second day wasn't so windy so we moved onto the beach and played soccer and the kids swam in the water and played in the waves. Just the two most beautiful days and now I have put my toes in both the Pacific and the Atlantic (and both were just a little too cold for me).

Bad Wife

Yesterday (Aug 1) was my husband's birthday and I didn't blog about it...what a bad wife!

Mike turned 39 yesterday, he's still a young puppy. We had a little BBQ and cake for him last night. Tracey and the kids are down so they came over, me mudder came over, Josee, Jeff and the kids...they were all excited for uncle Mike's birthday. These are some pictures we took in BC...the totem pole was on the way back from Victoria and the beach is Long Beach, close to Ucelet where we rented a house for three nights...

Week Almost Done

Thankfully the week is almost done...AGH!! It's 39 degrees outside with the humidex...that should not be legal! Thank goodness for the air conditioner...best money we ever spent!

Not much on the go this weekend. I still need to weed the vegie garden, did a little last week until the deer flies chased me away.

Graham is heading to daycamp in Wolfville next week, him and Elysia need some time apart. Which means my phone won't ring at work so much...

I promise I will blog some more pictures from BC, I just need to get my poop in a group!

Bad Blogger

I have been a bad blogger...we got back from BC last Sunday (no...not the one that just past) and then had to head right to work the next morning. Kids got the sleep in but there was no rest for the weary.

My friend, Jane's son Mitchell turned 10 while we were in BC...Happy Belated Birthday Mitchell!! That's double digits!!

We had an amazing time in BC...after we went to Victoria we headed to the west coast of Vancouver Island. We stayed in a beach house in Ucelet. The house was amazing...will try to post some pictures later...all windows, right over the water, private beach (if we don't count the bears...didn't see any on the beach, just their pooh!). We spent two days on a place called Long Beach, absolutely beautiful white sand beach. The first day was pretty windy and your legs got a good exfoliation from the sand blasting so we hung out in the drift wood at the top of the beach where there were little shelters made in the wood, kind of cool. The next time we went to the beach it was a perfect beach day, the kids had a soccer game with Tracey and I as subs. Lots of fun. We watched some surfers, kite surfers and wind surfers. We went into Tofino, nice little town, lots of shops and restaurants. Mike and I found it very California...lots of people just hanging out discussing the surf...very rad! Thats my cool hip surfer dude talk...

On the way home we managed to sit in the wrong seat on both flights...once cause of Mike and once cause of me...I had to swallow my foot cause I had given him a really hard time about making a mistake on the first flight...then I kind of tried to oops thing but he gave me the look that kind of said "haha..." The landing in Toronto was quite bumpty and we felt a little green, but Graham did see the Roger's Centre on the way over Toronto so all was not lost.

I had made arrangements for someone to clean my house while we were gone...how wonderful is that? Come home to a clean house...not!! They forgot! I was sooo disapointed, they came in last Friday instead so thankfully no one came over until then cause it was nasty.

I had to head right back to work on Monday, took me a while to get to sleep the first couple of nights, my body was still on BC time.

Anyway...it was a great trip...we saw so much of the island (PS...Josee, your kids would have hurled on the drive from Nanaimo to Tofino!) and we had a great time with Tracey and the kids...managed to see dolphins while on the ferry and a bear on the side of the road. On the ferry they had a "man over board" drill and Graham thought that meant we had to get in the life rafts...

Elysia managed to wash her IPOD...let it in her sweater when she put it through the machine...believe it or not, it still works, took a couple days of drying though and the light is not 100% but it plays music. We both got sand in our cameras at the beach and the lens is stuck on both...even tried to get the "geek patrol" at work to fix them but no go...

Would love to go there every year, it's great to see Tracey, Kaylie and Hannah in their "natural" environment and it is beautiful there. Every turn in the car is a postcard.

Now I have to go and figure out why Elysia is breaking out in hives...Lord only knows with that child. She's in the shower and I am changing her bed and she's taken Reactine...it's only her so it's not some bugs or something.