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What a fantastic end to the summer holidays.

Well I just can't believe that summer has come to an end (well in two more days that is). I am really not ready for it to be over just yet. We have had an amazing, and exhausting, time this past two months and the kids will never answer "Nothing" when asked what they did during the holidays.

To end the summer off we headed over to Inverhuron for a week of camping. The nights were a bit chilly (freezing actually) but the days were beautiful and we spent a ton of time beachin' it and going for bike rides. Avery's only disappointment about the trip was there was not one snake to found...and believe me she looked.

At the last minute we decided to head up to Tobermory for the day to visit some old friends and check out daddy's old 'stinky boat'.

You know how when you decide to do something last minute, with no planning, just grab a change of clothes and go, the day always turns out to be amazing. Well that is exactly what this day was. A perfectly AMAZING day.

We hooked up with some friends from our 'Tobermory days' and they gave us one of their small boats for the afternoon! Words cannot describe how excited Cam and Avery were. Daddy took us around some islands and showed us a bunch of cool stuff, then we anchored in a beautiful little cove to have lunch. Mike and the kids jumped off the boat and did some swimming. Swimming in the open water like that was a first for Cam and Avery and they loved it! We had such a great time. Thanks Larry and Lynn, you guys put the cherry on the cake for us that day!!!!

I promised the kids that for the next two days we would do nothing but play at the park and go to the beach. Staying true to my word we headed to the park this morning for a bit of fun. Now that Isaac is walking he follows his brother and sister around screaming at them to play with him. He is starting to notice other children and interact with them. I can't believe how much he has grown and changed in just the last few months.

I am sad to soon have to say good-bye to the summer months. But I have to admit that I am looking forward to the beautiful changing colours of the leaves and visits to the pumpkin patch.

What an adventure!!

Mike, Nana and the kids got home late last night from their Spanish River canoe trip. If you don't know anything about the Spanish River it's a 160 km long river in northern Ontario with plenty of whitewater, great fishing and spectacular scenery. It sounds like they had quite the adventure!Avery with a baby turtle she caught while staying at Fox Lake. It was a perfect distraction while waiting for a shuttle to the top of the river.

After getting a late start the first day and putting up with some serious rain they made it to this beautiful campsite on a quiet lake. The fishing was incredible and both Cam and Mike caught plenty of Pike and Bass.

Halfway through the trip the gang ran into a group of women on the river who were out for a day trip.......this is where the real adventure began. The three women unfortunately missed a major portage and got pulled into a long and dangerous set of rapids losing all of their equipment. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt in the ordeal, just shaken up and scared. At the next set of rapids the their canoe flipped one of the girls got seperated from the others. Mike , Nana and the kids who had set up camp for the night were the last to see her heading downstream apparently chasing her friends.

After having some dinner and enjoying a great fire eveyone turned in for the night thinking the adventure was over. Around 10:30 pm a helicopter started flying over the river. That's when the gang knew that all wasn't ok with the group of girls. Mike and Cam went out with flashlights and signaled the helicopter hoping to pass on info about where the girls were last seen. It circled a few times and left because there was nowhere to land. The temperature was down to 5C and everyone became very worried for the girl. Nobody slept well for the rest of the night.

At 2:30 am a Search and Rescue helicopter arrived from Trenton and two men repelled down on ropes into the camp sending everything blowing! Talk about an exciting thing to happen on a camping trip! The men got the story and made off into the night looking for the lost girl.

In the morning the gang was met by a really nice group of Canadian Military personel making their way through the camp. They were out on the river on a week long exercise and were very friendly with the kids.

After breakfast the OPP Search and Rescue team showed up with a police dog to join in the search. They set up their operation right in the campsite as our gang was packing up.

This was definitely not the usual camping trip by any means! This was adventure that the kids have never experienced before.

As the gang made their way down the river they were met by the OPP helicopter as it landed right in the middle of the river next to their canoe! The police got out and talked to Mike, Nana and the kids about what they had seen. This was all very exciting of course.

Around 10:30 am word arrived on the river that the girl was found in a swamp and was safe. She had survived a long cold night in the woods that surely must have been terrible. The kids were very relieved to hear that news.

Back to camping!

Nana (66 yrs) pitching in on one of the portages! What a trooper! Throughout the trip our gang ran approximately 30 sets of rapids, did numerous portages and caught a lot of fish. The gang made their way down the last section of river alongside the Military. In the end everyone had an amazing time and Nana is looking forward to next years adventure.

Unfortunately I can't say that Isaac and I had as much adventure as the rest of the gang this past week. We made it to the beach and got a lot of cleaning done around an otherwise quiet house. I'm just glad everyone had a wonderful time and made it home in one piece.

Last week we met our friend Kelly and her kids at the Toronto Zoo for a day of fun. Unfortunately I forgot my camera but Kelly just sent me this great pic of Isaac that I just had to share. And the five of us.

On another note....

Mike, Cam and Avery have been gone since Saturday canoeing the Spanish River and I miss them soooooo much. There is no cell service on the river so I haven't spoke to them since they left and its been tough. They are due home Saturday and I can't wait to see them.

On the good side of things Isaac and I have been super busy and the days have gone by rather quickly.

Avery's Christmas gift comes alive.

Last Christmas Cameron had given Avery an Ant Farm. She loved it. With the farm came a coupon to mail in for the ants but unfortunately the ants could not be shipped out until the warmer weather. Well guess what arrived in the mail today!?........A plastic test tube full of ants. Unfortunately only about six of the twenty ants arrived alive but Avery was ecstatic none the less. She has yet to come up with names for her newest creepy crawly friends but I have no doubt that soon enough she will.

Farewell to a fantastic weekend.

This past long weekend our town celebrated a reunion that happens every ten years. It was huge and the list of activities went on and on. Nana came up for the weekend so Mike and I could enjoy some of the night time festivities. The biggest event of the weekend was the Sunday night "shirtail parade". Now this being our 'first' we didn't really know what to expect. We very quickly discovered that it was an anything goes parade...literally. Mike and I were both wearing...clothes...and we were VERY overdressed. People were giving us a hard time because we were dressed. It was crazy. Most of the outfits consisted of duct tape, string and beer boxes. Yes, you can only imagine how many bare butts I saw that night. People were dragging wagons with coolers filled with their nights supply of beverages, some were even pushing baby strollers filled with refreshments. Fireworks were being let off all around us. There were thousands of people there. It was so much fun. The next time this reunion happens Cameron will be 19 and I am sure he will be participating in the weekend events....how scary is that.

Here are some 'family' pictures of the weekend.

Stunt man Cam breaking all the rules. It just looked like too much fun so what the hell...me and Avery decided to join in. This was Avery's first ever jump off the pier.
Avery and Isaac enjoy a ride together.....although I don't think daddy enjoyed pushing to much.

Hangin' out at the beach.

Hangin' out.

Just us hangin' out.