tidal wave......

We emptied the pool this evening......the children had friends over yesterday and today to enjoy the pool with them.......so while Lauries friends were still here this evening we let out all the water...which was great fun! The kids then had fun using the empty pool as a slip and slide and splashing around in the wet grass.....the water disappeared so quick into the grass.....Sam had a blast splashing around and got soaked!

Cool Dude

Our afternoon outside.......

The baseball match

Abigail with chalk on her forehead

floral post

anyone know what these yellow flowers are?

My secret path.......

We wnated to grow the back field 'wild' and its quite beautiful now.....like a meadow....full of wild flowers and butterflies and 'nature'.......but the grass just got too long for me to walk through with the children.....so Lloyd mowed a winding path all the way through it so we can take walks again more easily.........I love it! and we have found so many new things on our easy walks now....like the wild raspberries!!

Cloud formations

what does this cloud remind you of?

What does this cloud remind you of?

I thought this bottom picture was lovely.......I like how it caught the sun.....and I just used my point and shoot which doesn't normally take great pictures.......


My kids love playing that game where you have to work out what the clouds look like....rabbits, elephants, George Bush.......I think this top one has a scary kind of face in it if you look carefully....and the middle one looks a little like a small white dog....the kind I can't stand lol!

Sam-sam

Some pictures of Sam outside this afternoon.....

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Drying in the breeze....

The problem with having a pool and so many children is that ecah time they get in the pool they grab ANOTHER towel from the laundry cupboard.....then when they are done they leave them screwed up in a pile on their bedroom floors.......so we keep running out of clean and dry towels......and I find myself hunting down the wet ones and hanging them along the porch rail to dry..........my front porch is looking a little like a launderette

More pictures from this morning......

Pearl Crescent butterfly

Laurie in the new tshirt from Grandma and Grandad Spicer

Abigail on the sled in the pool

raindrops left over from last nights storm.......Susie noticed these and asked me to photograph them....they sparkled and this picture doesn't do them justice.......I should have taken my Nikon with me.....

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Hope you see this......I've posted twice now on your blog and when I hid send it says I have put in the wrong number and have to go back and put in the right number....I KNOW its the right number which annoys me and when I go back all my message has been deleted......so basically because of the number verification thingy I can't post in your blog any more :(

But I am reading!

I wrote a long thing about easy bake ovens...and another about some raspberry recipe I have from home....they both got deleted :(

A good day

S with Sam down by the pond

Sam walking with us

We saw plenty of bugs on our walk....

At the rear of our land..the whole of the left hand side is covered in raspberry bushes

Rosie in the wild flowers

Picking raspberries

Rosie shaking off water all over B

Fun in the pool

Sam on the trampoline

Rosies favourite game of fetch in the pond.

The clouds moved to the NW and missed us luckily...but it stormed in town.

throwing sticks for Rosie.

It's been a really nice morning.......after breakfast everyone wanted to play in the pool, so I played outside with Sam so I could keep an eye on everyone in the pool......I noticed that Rosie was playing with something in the grass...a frog! So I grabbed it quickly and we all looked at it and then we let it free into the pond.....

I was heading off to walk the dogs and the children asked if they could join me...so Laurie and his friends, Susie, Abby and Sam all came with me......we found the big ant hill and all watched the ants runnning in and out of their tunnels...we also found that the whole back of our property is COVERED in endless raspberry bushes....(wild???) so the kids had fun picking and eating all the ripe ones.....

We noticed all kinds of bugs and flowers on the walk.....I wished had my good camera with me instead of just my point and shoot.

We walked all around the back and then headed down to the pond where the kids had fun throwing sticks into the water for Rosie......

Back inside Susie asked to make some real lemonade...so she just made a big jug and is trying to get the others to try some....

It's almost 1pm and no one has asked for any lunch yet...I'm figuring the pancakes and raspberry feast filled everyone up......

I heard Lauries friends say 'I want to live on an acreage'......I guess thats a sign they are having fun here :)

Is it Friday yet?

This week seems so long after Lloyds week off last week.

I just got through making pancakes for all the children....8 of them.....English style pancakes.......my kids love them but the Canadian children (sensibly) aren't too keen....English pancakes are like fat crepes and are tastless.....even with sugar or syrup or chocolate sauce they are tasteless.......

My kids were amazed that their friends didn't like them...I wasn't! lol! I much prefer the fluffy Canadian style pancakes.....yum!

So the children are all outside...their friends are enjoying helping feed the chickens and rabbits and dogs and generally enjoying playing outside with so much space....they spent most of last evening swimming and playing soccer...I finally called them in around 10:30. When I woke up at 3am it was quiet downstairs so they were obviously asleep. There was a big storm here around 3am last night....the twins Mom just called and said there is a big storm in town right now....blue skies and sunshine here....yet we're really close to town.....strange weather here.....five minutes away they can have huge hail and storms and we can have blue skies!

So the boys are leaving around 7pm tonight when I go to the mall for my hair cut.....I still am not sure what to do about my hair......I'm not sure I want it cut too much any more........it's like in my profile pic atm.....but I'm thinking of having it cut just below chin length again - how I had it last summer......i'll talk to Erin.....Erin at Regis is a FAB stylist!!!! I've missed her doing my hair but she's BACK yay!

Well I think I am going to go out and take the dogs for a walk...it's nice that it isn't too hot today and I can go during the day....we've been leaving it until the evening lately as the dogs don't like the heat.......