Pictures from the last few days:

We watched this guy tightrope walk across Niagara Falls live on Friday evening. 

I was surprised at how fast he did it!  He is doing the Grand Canyon next!

I continue to work in my Inner Excavate-along journal for my current class:

Saw this on Instagram and thought it was funny:

Banana cartwheels everywhere:

More from my Inner Excavation Journal:

Our house is always filled with music - the girls guitar skills 

are amazing:

Sams art journaling is fabulous:

Inner Excavate along journal:

Can't remember if I have blogged this, but it still melts my heart:

Pictures I've seen and liked:

What a day :) Loving Summer!!!!

Today, after a morning of relaxing at home, we headed out to buy a new fire bowl.  I wanted to get something that we.  

 can use safely and regularly at this place - big enough for all of us, BUT small enough that we can take it if and when we move house!  

We found the perfect one!  

Then we headed to Whyte Ave, for our regular Saturday stroll.  We stopped off in Chapters to get some new books.  Then went to Fuss Cupcakes because their coffee is the most delicious coffee I have ever had!  :)  

Then after that we headed home, via Stupidstore for campfire goodies, and Home Depot for campfire tools.

Abby Banana ate all my froth from the top of my latte.  It reminded me of when she was a baby and Lloyd and I would sit in the Starbucks at the mall in Edinburgh and feed her the froth from his drink - even at 5 months she was happily lapping it up lol!  We used to think it was funny :)  

My cupcake choice today was a lemon cupcake:

Abigail chose Red Velvet:

Sam chose the Tiramisu cupcake:

When we got home the kids decided they wanted to put the fire together....unfortunately they didn't follow the instructions, lol so I re-did it with Susannah while Abby and Sam collected sticks :)  

It is a fabulous fire bowl and we had an amazing evening sat out by it:

I am loving my new book.  It is based in Edmonton and the main character works in a travel agents on Whyte Ave. It is so nice to read about familiar places and hear the characters complaining about the weather in September etc :)  

Susannah played guitar and sang to us.  It was lovely - with the sun setting behind her:

This little guy really loved being outside until after dark - figuring out how to get the fire to go big or small and throwing bits in:

Abby playing a game while Susie was on the guitar:

Of course we had glow sticks to play with:

We set the swing ball up as well:

We came in after midnight and packed everything away - tidied up a little, and now the house is silent and everyone is fast asleep already!  A truly wonderful day yet again. I feel truly blessed for my life :)

xxx

images from the last few days...

This is sooooo me hahaha.  Still sat up making art or Instagramming at 2am :)  

Abigail finally sued one of her craft kits she got for Christmas:

Playing with new apps:

Sam made this as a get well gift for me:

I bought these for the kids - I used to buy them at the sweet shop near my house when I was little, and used to lick them instead of use them as drinks - the kids had fun licking them and feeling them fizz on their tongues - and then watched them in bottles of water as they sink and rise up:

More app fun:

Sam always says 'The powder ones are MINE' :)

Pretty lake on the way to Katies Crossing last night:

:)  Love him so much - such a sweetie:

My firstborn at UBC:

My friend Rachel sent me the directions to make catapults that she had made with the cub scouts.  Here is Sam with his:

Inner Excavation

I am currently taking part in a 7 week online class called 'Inner Excavate-along' 

It is a guided tour through the book 'Inner Excavation' by Liz Lamoreux 

I have a signed copy I bought when it was first published - it's such a beautiful book! I have never worked through it properly though - just enjoyed reading it, so this is a wonderful excuse - and great motivation, to finally do the exercises in the book!  

This week we are working through Chapter 1 with the theme of 'begin'.  Each page has a new way to be creative on the subject.  Taking photographs of your day. word lists to inspire writing, poetry, mixed media etc etc.

We had to take a book (any book) and turn to a page and then loo for words that 'grab us' and put them into a list to turn to when writing poetry - an inspiration list.  I used one of my Sark books:

I used to love to write poetry, but haven't done so for YEARS - so I am enjoying this aspect of the class.  This is a free class and you don't HAVE to have the book but it helps.

Come and join us!  Many of us are on Instagram and are tagging our pictures #innerexcavatealong 

Images from Thursday...

Ki messaged me yesterday and asked if we wanted to meet her and her girls at Katies Crossing.  We had planned to go to the farmers market or something, but didn't have much we HAD to do, so we headed straight up to meet them.  There was one other family there at the time - who luckily left before our conversation turned hilarious :)  

I loved that it went quiet and then Ki said 'So Laurence when are you going to ask Presley out'  (Presley was sat right there)  :)  

After supper Ki went for a walk but we had to head into town.  Laurence went to hand his resume in where his friend works, and then we went to the mall to get Laurences new phone.  His contract ran out on Monday, and he wanted to buy a new one.  He got a new HTC or something or other and is VERY happy with it - he is paying for it all himself now - although he got the phone for free :)  

I was up to see the sunrise yesterday at 4:30am:

And outside to see the sun set too:

All in all another fabulous day.  So glad to feel better and get outside to enjoy the sunshine :)