Thank you Val!

The rest of our afternoon was spent sunning ourselves on Vals porch, the children playing in their pool, chatting, laughing, eating, drinking and generally having a lovely afternoon! K (Vals DD) and I both agreed that Val is getting extremely spoiled in her old in her old age (lol at the old age)!!! AND senile (she has started going to home depot for FUN when she gets time to herself!!!!!!)

TOO FUNNY!

Anyway - we had a lovely afternoon so thank you Val and everyone over at the funny farm ;)

I'm still a little hurt that Abby likes your place better than mine!! ;)

Fun at the farm!!!

Laurie, Sam and Abby were really lucky and got to go and meet Vals animals this afternoon - she has two donkeys and two sheep. It's been ages since we've seen them - I'm not even sure if we've seen the donkeys - I know we've seen the sheep before though....my memory is hopeless!

The children got to feed the animals 'horse crunch' which they obviously LOVED and they kept coming back for more!!!

The black sheep 'pepper' or 'shadow' was more shy and stayed back a lot more - probably wise with my three around ;) I think my three were more nervous of gentle giant Zorro than they were of the other animals!

There must always, always be a Zorro....

This is Sam with Vals dog Zorro...I just HAD to get a picture of this giant teddy bear dog with Sam. Isn't he just a gorgeous dog? I said to my crew that we MUST rent the Beethoven dvd series of movies so they can laugh about the drool factor and St Bernard dogs! They are great movies :) Zorro is so gorgeous - he was lying across the front step when we arrived and refused to get up for us so we all just had to step across him and he is NOT small! ;)

Lightning over Edmonton...

A colleague of Lloyds took these pictures during the storm earlier this week over Edmonton. The storm didn't come out as far as us but we could watch it from our bedroom window and could see all of the lightning. We couldn't hear any thunder but the all the lightning was amazing to watch - it didn't even rain here! Chris actually cycled home from his friends durng it and kept phoning us because he couldnt believe that it wasn't at our house and he was worried he wouldn't make it home in time but we kept saying it wasn't here and we didn't think it was coming here! Aren't these pictures great?