Seeing The Fingerprints

We decided to do some travelling within our own beautiful country.  Really we almost started out our trip in our own backyard.  Yes!  We camped in our own town and it was super fun.  We love going to the Abbotsford International Airshow annually.  It's such  fun family event!  However it was a last minute decision to camp at the airshow this year which added a little chaos to the beginings of our travels. Between kids getting to Birthday parties, me helping do a photo shoot and having to pick up the camping trailer and pack it all within a few hours you could probably image the sweat pouring off my back and the fear that I probably  missed a few things while packing.... Needless to say we managed to get on the road relatively on time and head to the airshow.  it was a fun fabulous event again.  We even had very friendly neighbours in the campground that shared some dropjes and chats :) We met up with friends (family) from out of town....

So I'm avoiding the dishes pile that happened and really needs to be cleaned up before our company comes for dinner.  Unsure how my kitchen just about exploded in the past few hours, but it did.  I guess when your kids go in there and bake cookies to sell up the street and you start dinner preparation and decide last minute to make a dessert....yes that is how my kitchen explodes into full on disaster zone!  I'd bake all day every day if I never ever had to clean a dish!!! Since we've returned from our trip to the Netherlands a lot of things have happened around here!   This girl got to go on her very first over nighter field trip.  She explored the wonders of the good old days in Barkerville.  She came home with some gold flakes and many good memories.   This girl decided that once again we should celebrate her birthday!  She didn't make a cake request this year and gave me the privilege of surprising her.  Unsure how I liked ...

Everyone once in a while I have the privilege of using my camera for some fun photoshoots.  Here is my beautiful niece and her fun friends.   Actually truth be told I wasn't fully expecting to take on all the friends for this photoshoot at first.  I was ready to take photos of my niece and snap away....but last minute I agreed to help take photos of the friends.  It was a little crazy organizing such a big crowd, but they were ok with me bossing them around and cooperated mostly well :)  They all threw their cell phones at me on the first picture....should've took a picture!!! I had to remove the biggest distraction right?  I hope they're all enjoying the summer of their lives!!!