Barbie needs marital therapy...............

Sniff sniff......I have more of a relationship with the laundry than I do with Ken...............

Help..............

Someone help me.......I've got my @#$^%$ hair all tangled up with the @$%&*$ shower head again!!!

Sisters together.....................

Lakeside fun...................

Fashion sense....Abby style!!!

I let the children choose their own clothes each day......Abigail picks all kinds of weird outfits...like today.....a glittery purple skirt of Susannahs and a tshirt....and sadly no underwear again (as we found out when she was twirling over this bar at the park lol! Her brothers were horrified of course and Chris cries out 'For the love of God will you please put some underwear on?????!!!!!'

Ah well, apart from the underwear thing, I hope she never changes....she's such a free spirit....

By the waters edge........................

Goose poop................

For some reason my darling Sam was at his happiest playing by the waters edge with sticks that he kept prodding into goose poop..............he's such a BOY!!!! I blame his Father ;)

Artists at work...............

Here are the children busily drawing their chosen part of the lake........Abigail drew a picture of the whole lake with the island in the middle of it and Susie drew someone walking along the shoreline with a dog as we had seen many paw prints in the sand.............

Me..........and my art :)

So the top picture is the scene that I sketched (in the bottom picture) and which I now plan to paint with watercolours when I get time.............so uh yeah its a really loose sketch! The other pictures are ones Susannah insisted on taking of me unfortunately. Her focus isn't fab yet and sadly she hasn't learnt how to make me look thin in pictures yet........she took quite a few more pictures than this and they all make me think one thing....................I want my boobs reduced!!!!! I want them made soooo much smaller! They are just so big and round.......but sadly Lloyd thinks they are 'lovely' and insists they stay as they are (or get made bigger groooooan) lol!

Men!!!!!!!

Oh and in the pic of me with 4 of my children...the strained look is because Susie was taking so long to take the picture lol.......

Sandpipers............

These cuties were all along the shoreline at South Cooking Lake.......they are actually fairly rare in Alberta....mostly seen at the Beaverhill Reserve.........from a distance it looks as though they are walking on water...my DD was amazed!

A picnic by the lake.....

In the pic above they are watching a plane land at the South Cooking Lake Airport just the other side of the lake.......little planes were quietly landing and taking off all afternoon!

Last night I decided to plan a surprise picnic for the children...so I made a load of cheese and cucumber sandwiches, packed the coolbag with juice cartons, carrots and dip, apples etc and got everything ready. This morning I had the girls bake muffins and THEN told them they were for a picnic!

At 1pm after Sam woke up from his nap we headed out for a late lunch. We drove to South Cooking Lake and found a picnic table close to the water......the children played with the ball, ate lunch and had great fun leaping from rock to rock........

After the picnic we took a walk along the lakeshore and through the woods, then headed back towards the truck.......In the truck I had packed paper and pencils, and we all sat and sketched the scenery.......that was really nice!

After the art session we had a drink each and I read a few chapters of Harriet The Spy...the book we are reading together atm.

After playing for a while longer we climbed into the truck and came home.....

The weather was gorgeous....warm and breezy at 21c and we had the place to ourselves for the most part. An old couple with their Daughter were walking around for a while and stopped to chat with us...they asked if we were all one family (lol) and asked how families these days can afford to have so many children. They were asking us if we lived in the village and telling us about the baby geese that were recently there........they complimented the children and me :) and asked where I was from......I told them how I think I sound Canadian now Eh?........but I guess not, I guess I still have my British accent lol!

It was a really nice afternoon!

stupid blogger won't let me add the pics atm.....watch this space!!!!

Baking for our picnic

The girls baked carrot muffins this morning to take on our picnic today.......yum!