Summer around here begins with the warmer weather in May, and what way to celebrate but with ice cream! Have you noticed that anytime we get together, there's food to eat?
Ice cream cones, hot dogs on salad forks,
and birthday cakes and celebrations.
We celebrated Uncle Bob's and Aunt Mary's birthdays with a family reunion.
I thought it was
I thought it was
rather interesting to see all the physical changes happening to us: we're all a little grayer and a little, ahem, plumper. But we could still share great stories and lots of laughs!
Lots of hugs at family reunions, and lots of hugs when we see our little ones who live far away from us. Here Pookie-1 Anneke sneaks in a hug as she tries to attach a necklace to Opa.
Our Sweet-Peas arrived at the end of June, and spent their first weekend in Ontario at Oma's and Opa's. Food again - can't make cookies unless the chocolate chips pass the taste test!
If you look carefully,
you'll see 2 hummingbirds discussing the benefits of hosta nectar.
Last week, we had our Geertsema Campout. We went to Presqu'ile Provincial Park. It's a nice park, but you have to drive everywhere. We had a site in the group camping area, which was quite nice. Level ground, but we could have had more shade. We usually take a hike or two, we did just one this time - to the Nature Centre. The next day, we drove to the Lighthouse, which is where the photo at the top of the blog was taken.
What's camping without books? These kids love to be read to, and here they're listening to Aunt Katrina, at bedtime, reading 'Elephants Can't Dance".
We did an activity each day with the kids; the shaving cream play was a winner!
After the initial oo-yuck hesitation in touching it for the first time, they had a great time with it!
and Maria got her Daddy to shave!
Campfire and 'smores at the end of the day....
All in all, in spite of the wind, and the lack of water for 24 hours, and the hot sun making hot tents for napping, and a snake in the outhouse, we had a good time! It was wonderful to see our kids catch up with each other - we sure missed Michael - and our kidlets played so well together.
Even though our times together always seem so short, it was just as well we went home when we did: Thursday ended up being a rather wet day. I'm looking forward to Next Time!
On Thursday, Martin came over to clean out the car to get ready for the trek home. Maria and Nicole came with him. They played at just about everything that Oma has, and we even tried out Daddy's reinforced bubbles.
We did some colouring as well, and what's colouring time without a sheet of stickers -
Nicole stuck the whole sheet of stickers on the paper, whereas Maria used just the stickers from the outside of the sheet.
And now, I'm getting ready to go west for some time with Michael before going east for a camping trip with Martin and Emily and girls, and a wedding. We'll be home just in time for me to do the 'check-the-route' run with the school bus!
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