Quote of the Day

Brady started his first ever swimming lessons last week! He has LOVED it!! After the first lesson, as we were walking to the van, he asked me:

"Mommy, why didn't they give me swimming lessons?

Why did we just play games?"

Too cute! Here are just a few pics....

Brady and his buddy on the 'magic carpet ride'!

On the 4th lesson, the kids were given the opportunity to jump

off the low diving board. Can you sense Brady's uncertainty?

Well, at least he jumped in the deep end, if not off the board!!

It was such a nice day on Friday, even Nate did some splashing

in the wading pool. He enjoyed it much more than it appears here!!

Oh Brother!!

This is my brother.

Don't you love it? He's 6' 4", and I'm pretty sure this water wasn't much deeper!! But I'll give him a 10 for form!!

Well, my brother had a birthday last week. And I've been trying to think of the perfect birthday gift for the last two weeks. Now it's crunch time. Mom and Dad are flying to TO on Wednesday and I'd like them to deliver his gift!

What do you get the guy??? A 30-something police officer (I like to call him a CSI of the 401 sort), father of 3, and husband to his beautiful bride. This is a guy who goes and buys whatever he wants when he wants it. Or, like me, researches something to death in order to find the best of whatever it is he's looking for.

So, brother, if you're reading this. Send some ideas my way. I've got about 24 hours left to find that perfect something!!!

I Spy!

See anything? Nothing out of the ordinary, right?

Here's a closer look. Hmmmm.......I see one clue popping up over the cedars.

OK, something is definitely going on. There's no mistaking that yellow dump truck....

Do you want the whole picture?

Yep, it's a construction zone in our front yard. The boys spend a lot of time out here - digging and dumping and all the other things that boys like doing with dirt! It's quite hilarious that they are totally hidden from the street view. Although, seeing as I'm not quite as invisible, anyone driving by might wonder what I'm doing just sitting at the end of our porch.

Yep, that's me. And that's life with boys! Gotta love it. I get to go and get my toes painted all pretty, and then promptly get down and dirty in the 'work zone'!

I wouldn't have it any other way!!!

Friday Photo

Camping......Almost

Well....really not close at all, but a fun day none the less!  And when you break it down, we did a lot of camping"ish" things!

Pretty much spent the whole day outside.  Really nice of summer to finally show up.  Even nicer for the mosquitoes to arrive, right on time.  Grrr.

BBQ'd hot dogs for our picnic lunch....did some work on the yard....playtime with our neighbors....a walk.....out for a nice supper.....a bike ride.....DQ ice cream.....more playtime with Brady's cousin.....and finally a "camp" fire complete with some toasty marshmallows.

A fun day and a late night.  Brady went to bed at 10:30 and Nate finally fell asleep at 11:00!   Let's hope there are some solid sleeps tonight!

The week that was to be...and the week that is!

It's been a real treat having Don at home this week.  He took a week of holidays this week, knowing that July wouldn't be an option for time off.  I felt it would be a loooong stretch to wait until August or September for holidays, so here we are with a week off together!

The plan was to go camping for a few nights this week.  But yesterday, after checking the forecast, plans became a bit more uncertain.  We wanted to go to Lilac Campground which has a pretty amazing water park, especially for the little guys.  But seeing that the 'high' for our swimming day was 11 degrees....and 40% chance of rain, we decided to bail.  I mean seriously....11 degrees???  11 very small, little degrees above FREEZING?!?!  I don't think so.  And since we didn't want to lose our whole camp site fee, we cancelled while the penalty was minimal.

So, on to other things!  The forecast has changed.  Of course.  But there's still a 60% chance of rain.  We'll stick around here and have fun in the process!  Maybe head out to the beach one afternoon if it does heat up, or into Winnipeg if the day looks too rainy!  Whatever we do, it's just nice to have days together as a family!

Here's a little snuggle time Brady and I had right after he got out of the bath tub.  Love that boy!!!