Vacation Week...Roughing It!! Part 1

                     So our first week of vacation was spent at Mom and Dad Cameron's woodlot . They had just put a basement under their little house and were on vacation themselves getting lots of work(or trying to ) done . We joined them for a week filled with crazy fun, amazing food, no running water....no electricity(except when the generator was running) lots of old fashioned work and play.

            Ryan and I did lots of landscaping for Mom and Dad.

  The girls were kept busy in the wild raspberry patch picking us sweet berries which translated into yummy  skillet desserts.

                     Daddy kept busy looking out for kids and dogs while running his new excavator.

                   We looked for cooling watermelons kept in the stream....

                  We watched the kids watching the work and the puppy from the front door...

                           We got oodles of pictures and had loads of fun just being together!!

   We learned new things...

              Had fun thrift store shopping...

                     And modeling the finds afterwards..

                           We  got muddy playing in the dirt..

            Took lots of breaks from the work to watch the clothes drying in the breeze.

                     We learned new skills....

             Did you know that a drill  with a whisk attached can be used to whip cream ?

   Made new friends.....

                               Another new skill...hand washing laundry...

       Had fun making a clothes line and hanging out our freshly washed clothes!

              More dirt and happy girls.

      More dirt and happy men!!!!

More clean clothes and a happy momma!!!

  We also had cousin fun at a birthday party and got fun tattoos!!

       Petted friendly deer...

                                 Enjoyed being together..

                       Loved the wildlife up close...

           and far away!!

                   We chatted ..

               and celebrated big 6 year old birthdays

               And made memories...yup this vacation was splendid so far!!!!

A little Bit of Everything

                     So our summer was going pretty well, we were getting excited for our super vacations coming up and in the meantime were snuggling a puppy........

                              Having marshmallow roasts....

                                  Keeping cool in the kiddy pool....

                                  Snuggling some more....

                                   Trying to stay fit with 1 more distraction then we had before the summer started....

                       And again.....puppy snuggling........:0)

Puppy Fun

We had so much fun with our puppy. The girls and I went to visit Mom and Dad in Wickham with my sister Jenny and her 6 girls the first of the summer . We had so much fun and Bear did too!! His first trip to the beach was not what I thought it would be with him being a Newfoundland puppy and so I thought was supposed to love the water, but he didn't, and  had fun on the sand playing with the girls!!

                                   Getting patted by Grammie

                    He and Cammie became fast friends.

                  He is the sweetest puppy

                                Everyone enjoys playing with him!

                  My garden all leafy with the promises of veggies to come!!

                            RYan doing some training with Bear.

                      Elin loves snuggling with him.

                 

Bear

Near the end of June we made a weekend trip to see Grammie and Grampie Skaling. We had a great visit with them and Uncle Shawn, Auntie Ang and cousins too. I snapped this picture of Eva after church waiting for Grampie to leave. He had promised her a drive with him and so she bolted out of church after the service, grabbed her booster seat from our van and seated herself right outside the vehicle....she was NOT missing that ride with Grampie!!

On the way home from our valley trip, we made a few stops......We were looking for a particular thing and had lined up a few visits to see if we could find it. Our dog Jake had gone back to live with his former owner as her circumstances had changed and she was able to take him back . That left us missing a canine companion terribly, and we had our dreams on another Newfoundlander like our beloved Lucy, who had passed a few years ago.

Baby Elle and Lucy

Our First stop was to see a whole bunch of furry little puppies. They were too young to take home , and they had only females unspoken for(Ryan was desperately hoping for a male!!) ,but we wanted to visit them in case we wern't able to get a male either place .

All the girls had their arms full of puppy.

                                        We were so in love!!!

The next stop was to see a litter with much older puppies . They were all supposed to be female as well, with 1 male available but not on the premises. .When we got there however, there was a male there with all his sisters and we could take him home with us if we wanted.....well, we had not planned to purchase on that trip, just look and meet the parents...ect.. but here we were with an adorable bundle of fur and a big decision....

 So we took a little time to think and a 15 min. road trip to Peggy's Cove ,where the girls had never been.

         We were treated to bagpipes.

Lots of sunshine!!

And we talked it all over.

                           And we decided......

To go back to town....get our money.......

                      and buy a Bear!!!!        Here he is Our new doggie and the furry love of our lives....Bear.

                                 We had so much fun with him on the way home.

 Lots of stops, snuggles and just sitting and watching him. Soooooo cute!!!