Summer Life


Summer = Laziness

Well sort of......
We've moved, renovated, camped, travelled and now are attempting at settling into our new home...it's taking time to feel at home here.  
The space and view are lovely, the new town is just taking some getting used to......

Here are some fun photos of our summer days.



Picked and ate strawberries

Watched the local parade in honour of our countries birthday.


Renovations is a family effort!  Shout out to all those who helped us sweat out the hours of wall building, closet building, painting trim and more trim, fixing floors, toilets and much more.  Still have a few pieces to finish off.....but our renters are living in there.....wondering when we'll ever be done ;)

Testing out the new backyard......

















Experiencing life outside of the house for 6 nights at camp.  thanks  Stepping Stones for taking care of our daughter well!

Summer Date night....doing one of my favourite things.
Field trip to the "favourite" uncles shop and learning to drive forklift

Celebrating a birthday









A mixture of a somewhat impulsive road trip to Oregon.
The big plan was to visit a special zoo.  Those are the photos you see of us touching bears and roaring like lions and holding opossums.
It was a somewhat cool summer holiday....but holding crabs, cart wheeling on the beach, riding merry-go-rounds still make great memories.


Enjoying the Abbotsford International Airshow...
Having fun with friends who have quads.








  

And before settling into real life one trip off to Shuswap Lake with some extra family for some great memories to be made!  Fishing lessons, ninja moves to make, boats to ride in or behind. lake weed crowns worn and much more!

And that is summer!  A whirlwind of non routine and tans!
















Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 23, 2016 at 4:15 PM

    Busy summer!

    I love the pic of Judah and the lion haha

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  2. AnnaAugust 23, 2016 at 8:31 PM

    Summer goes way too fast! Such great pics...I love that you even got one of you, and the picture of A holding the fish is just beautiful, she is beaming!

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    1. CarlaAugust 24, 2016 at 7:30 AM

      Yeah fishing was quite exciting so a beam for sure once that fish was caught...
      And I love love love the beach and ocean so i wasn't opposed to putting a picture of myself in my "happy" place

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