WEDDING!! Day 2: Beach Day! (and prep day... no pics of that)

Sidenote: The problem with this future dated posting is that I can't post, look at it and make sure it's all good and in order, edit, repost, and then hope everyone only saw the finished version. I think there may be many mistakes and possible picture mess-ups with this method. Sorry about that.

Now to continue with wedding photos!

Day 2 - French toast for breakfast! We weren't hard-core camping, obviously. Or maybe WE were, but Nana wasn't (thank goodness!)


We spent the morning at the beach. As you can tell from the sky, we had a little rain (read - droves of rain), but it was only overnight and about half an hour after this it all cleared up and was nice and warm.






Graye trying his luck. Don't think he'll catch much more than brine shrimp as this is an extremely saline lake. You can't sink!

WEDDING PHOTOS!! Day 1: Thursday (Arrival Day)

Ryan's sister, Kristen, was married on June 25 at Camp Easter Seal in Manitou. We arrived the Thursday before and set up camp - it was an outdoors, camping wedding.

The kids packed into the car, ready to go! No room for even one more thing in there... we're lucky the kids are still small!

We celebrated Kristen and Erling's (Ryan's dad) birthdays as well - it was a good weekend to celebrate everything, I guess! Graye had a hard time waiting to "help" blow out the candles:

Mmmmmmm.... caaaaaake....

There were lilacs all around the campground that the girls were pretty much either picking or carrying around continuously.

I painted again! I deserve some sort of medal. Or something.

I painted a picture of my sister-in-law's (Ryan's sister's) dog, ODIN, for her and her husband as a wedding gift. This is currently my studio:

It's an old shower curtain on the floor in front of the TV. Note the slushee and chips and dip laying amongst the art supplies. I call that "inspiration". :)

Odin:

The kids trying to train the real Odin:


Note that Odin is a (gigantic... big as a horse... HUUUUGE) Newfoundland dog. He's also a super sweety, the kids love him.

Ryan's Dayjob!

Ryan starts his new job TODAY! He is "Head Instructor" at a new recording school that opened in Saskatoon. The kids and I took a tour... and helped Ryan get the feel of actually having students.


Graye turning it up to "11":

Learning... about YouTube kids' videos on the big screen.

They are going to be bringing in the big bucks any day now.

Father's Day Festivities

We had family from both sides over for supper on Father's Day - STEAK supper. Uh huh... we're good kids/wives. :)

My mom and dad first played "sleeping"...

...and then danced. I think they may have gotten confused with the itinerary - I'm sure my parents were wishing the sleep game came second.

Scheduled Posting!

I have figured out how to schedule my posts for future dates! Not that it was hard, I just never really bothered doing it before. But NOW, instead of posting 10 posts at a time when I finally get around to doing it, I will SCHEDULE them to post somewhat randomly throughout the next few weeks. This way you will always have something to look forward to. Namely: new pictures of my kids. Possibly: a bit of witty banter. You love it, admit it. ;) Thanks for coming!

Here's the first one...

The kids and I painted some rocks for the garden!

Tegan also painted other things...

Graye was concentrating hard on his bumblebee.

Done!

Summary of a wedding, a zoo and a parade...

As I have been a pretty poor blogger lately, here is a super quick summary of what we've done.

Went to the zoo with Nana and Farfar -

Went to the Warman rodeo parade (and collected more candy than on Hallowe'en!)

Is it me, or do clowns just not make any effort anymore??

...and got dressed up for our first wedding of the "season".


Better coverage of camping below. ;)

First Camping Trip of 2011

We went camping to Memorial Lake a couple weekends ago. It was great! We had the whole campground to ourselves (can't imagine why!!??) and good weather. The nights were pretty cool, but we're all tough. Well... the rest of the family is tough, I just do my best to pretend.

We camped right by the beach and the playground (and the flush bathrooms!) Perfect...



Had excellent camp food:



Whoops...

Checking out the fish -

Best part of camping: making s'mores.



It was a bit chilly at the beach... kids still wanted to go in the water though, so we compromised.

It did warm up though!

The lake early in the morning (and with the kids camping, it really is early).

My mom and dad came out for an afternoon as well. They picked a good one too, it was nice and warm that day. Mom looks a little concerned with the water balloons in such close range though - don't think she was that warm.

Dad sympathizing with Graye having to eat his supper before he gets dessert...

Stopping for ice cream and to look at the train before going home -