Climbing frame....

The children have LOVED the climbing frame this year - it has had a lot of use...almost daily I would say...I think it was definitely worth buying!

As Sam now has the bigger climbing frame, I emailed my old neighbour and said that we could return her little climbing frame she had loaned is for Sam. She emailed me back and invited me over this week and also offered me a job! She asked if I could help rewrite parts of her website and the e-commerce section with products etc......so I will speak to her about that in the week.

snapshots of a summer evening..

Many evenings lately have been spent out by the fire pit, with cups of tea, marshmallows to roast and NO mosquitoes :) Here are a few snaps from one of the evenings this past week.

Dragonfly delight.....

A pic from yesterday...

Chris took his camera yesterday to the lake so I thought I'd have a look through his pictures and blog a few....but this one is really the only one I can blog - Val I have a few I can send to you of your crew but they aren't great lol - Chris needs to practice a little more and most of his pictures are weird ones of his feet while swinging etc ;) And a few of me ina bathing suit which I'm not sure ANYONE here would want to see lol!

My new cousin!!

I have a new cousin - baby Leah was born on Monday in Dorset, England. I don't think my Uncle Bernard (60) and my Aunt Louise (43-ish) thought they'd have a child together but they got this lovely surprise this year :)

My Nanny Spicer (Dads Mom) is in the pictures...her youngest Grandchild must be almost 30 so I am sure she wasn't expecting to have any more Grandchildren - she has plenty of Great Grandchildren already :)

My Mom bought a gift for the baby while she was visiting here - a little baby set with bootees and hat and bib and little sleeper - all in red and white with Canada on them :)

drizzly and grey and Autumnal.

Yesterday was really nice. Gorgeous weather and we spent the afternoon at the beach...Val and Samantha joined us with their children and all in all it was a great day...we finally got home at 7pm!!!!!! After a dinner of chicken salad and wedges, we went outside and sat out there all evening by the fire....sucha nice evening after a fun day of swimming and playing and chatting at the lake!

Today is completely different. It is grey and drizzly and miserable outside and I am feeling worse and worse - felt a bit achey this morning but I feel so much worse now.....all my joints hurt, I am so cold and have ear ache....I feel all flu-ey.

I am not sure if I have a cold or something coming or if I picked something up in the lake water yesterday, but I don't feel good.

The miserable weather meant we changed our minds about the parade today - there was no way the girls could walk wearing leotards and little skirts. We decided to go to the big yard sale in town that they hold annually at the big garden centre. It was useless though and we were only there 20 minutes - I bought 1 book and a magna doodle and that was it - spent $1.50!!!!

W stopped off at Chapters and had a coffee in Starbucks but I was starting to feel so bad that we grabbed a few things in Safeway and then headed home.

Now, despite the drizzle and greyness outside, Lloyd has taken the 4 youngest down into the woods at the end of the road to chop down trees and bring them back up - he's stocking the wood pile ready for winter so it has time to dry out before the snow falls....

I am going to soak in the bath and hope that helps me feel better. Apart from that, I am not sure what our plans are - Lloyd is making his wonderful butter chicken for dinner tonight and we will probably put the fire on and curl up with a good movie.....

Val, it was so great to see you all yesterday - I really enjoy spending time with your wonderful family and it was nice to have Kayla there to swim with me :)

I hope I didn't give you any germs there!!! I have no idea whats wrong with me but I hope you are all feeling ok!

Oh and other sad news - I think the Hummingbirds have left on their journey South :( they haven't been around the last couple of days :( how depressing!