We are home

Wow, it has been a long time. We are now home from our two weeks of vacation. Steve is back at work today and we are experiencing our real first day at home since school is done. I am going to have to think of things to keep the kids busy. I am going to have a few posts to summerize our past two weeks, I think I emptied one of my 4GB cards on my laptop several times so I have TONS of pictures and not enough time to go through them.
Vacation starting on July 1st when we headed 3 1/2 hours to the Canadian/USA border to Lake Metigosh where my parents have a cabin. They are basically right on the border off of the lake. It was a beautiful hot week and we did lots of relaxing. Granny and Grandpa spent the time with us and it probably was a good thing because we may have gotten bored there after a while.

Joel and Laura also came up one evening and we were able to visit with them.

Steve and my Dad went fishing every day, sometimes twice and took the kids out alot too. They caught lots of fish, Aidan with his first two and Cassidy with her first. Steve also caught quite a few with a big monster one. Cassidy showing off her fish Aidan's second fish (37 inches, daddy helped him get this big guy)

Of course, who could forget Daddy's 40 incher, this guy was huge!

July 4th, Grandpa took us all out on the boat late at night to the American side where we saw one of the best fireworks show. Everyone there blasts off there own so everywhere we looked there was stuff going on, the kids thought it was pretty neat and I must say the Americans now how to put on a good show. They also thought it was great to stay up to midnight!We were very glad that we left right before the tornado went through. Thankgoodness our cabin was safe but many of the neighbors weren't so fortunate.

Saturday we started the journey back home and stopped in Brandon for the night at Grandma and Grandpa Keowns. Sunday Grandpa took us out to shoot rockets and then we went for icecream.

Sunday night we arrived home and monday I spent the day doing laundry and grocery shopping and we got the trailer all ready for camping.

Tuesday we headed to St.Malo and enjoyed the rest of the week camping. We had great weather and spent lots of time at the beach. Lots more pictures from camping will be coming in my next post!

Now we are trying to get into some kind of summer routine. We are camping this weekend again at St.Malo with the 'Keown' family, so I didn't even bother unpacking half the camping gear. Next week the kids start swimming lessons for two weeks and the end of the month they are going to Vacation Bible school.