Susannah......

Susannah laughing about her endless list of 'signs of summer'.......(she's wearing a t-shirt, the sky is the colour of summer skies, we're having a fire, the bubbles are out, Charlie is out.......

Susie had an endless list of 'signs of summer'.............

:)

Thats fine with me :)

But whatever she was saying....Rosie certainly found it funny!!!! hahahaha!!!!!

Peek-a-boo!

Susannah having fun in the snow :)

Rosie posie.....

Another sure sign of Spring :)

We had the bubble mixture and toys out today :)

Amber and Rosie enjoying the snow...

....and warmer weather :)

How I spent the early evening........

After walking around the museum, we came home and I cleared up outside for a while - picking up garbage that the dogs had chewed up - scooping poop, picking up some garbage that had blown around from the renovations - just general Spring tidy up!!! Then Lloyd lit a nice fire in the fire pit - the first of the year :) And I sat by the fire with my feet up and watched the children play :)

The bug room.....

One of our favourite parts of the museum is the bug room.....and today we spent ages in there looking at all the different bugs and seeing how they had changed since last time! The Millipede was really active today....but the bug that had us most fascinated was the Giant Waterbug!!! The female lays the eggs on the males back where they are protected!!! So we were watching the eggs and noticed that some of them had already hatched and then we noticed some were hatching while we were stood there!!! It was amazing! They would pop out - squeezing out of the tiny hole all white and jellified and then slowly change black into the beetle like creature. So weird! there were hundreds of babies swimming about in the water! But the males look so weird with the eggs on their backs! So amazing to watch!

Royal Alberta Museum...

This morning we headed to the Royal Alberta Museum to check out their current exhibit - The Ends of the Earth. This exhibit is about comparing The Arctic and Antarctic, looking at penguins, polar bears and how the two poles are being effected by global warming. We are HUGE fans of the RAM and go there quite often (especially to see Sam's bison lol) and so we also stayed and had lunch there and strolled around the rest of the museum - spending the longest time in the bug room which is everyones favourite part!!!

Our city......

The river is still frozen in many places but much of the snow is gone or going in the city......and the ice that is on the river is thin and patchy. Spring has sprung :) I love this view of our city :)

Abigail rides....

A visit to Rhonda's house!

Yesterday Abigail and I 'went country' and took a drive out to Rhonda's house!!! (You can find Rhonda's blog at the 'Going Country' link to the right). Actually Rhonda only lives about five minutes from us - a little further along the highway - and closer to the lake! It's very beautiful there! Rhonda's husband built their home last year and it's STUNNING!!! You can see the building process on their blog and I was excited to see the house for real!! Rhonda you have a beautiful home! Just gorgeous! And in such a beautiful setting too!

Abigail had a wonderful time playing with Rhondas three gorgeous children while Rhonda gave me a tour of the house and we sat and had tea (I think I disappointed Rhonda greatly as I wasn't so good with a teapot even though I'm British and I admitted that I make my tea in a mug - I think I let my Nation down hahahahaha)!!

Abigail loved meeting the horses and donkey! Feeding them and getting in the pen and actually RIDING them!!! Of course this has only increased her desire for her own pony!!! Daddy (for some insane reason) told her she could have one when she is 8!!! So now she is horse mad and it's all she thinks about!

Thank you for a lovely morning Rhonda!