Another beautiful morning at the Castor River
We have the most amazing outfits in this house for the summer
Who is helping who?
On my birthday, there can never be enough sprinkles
Teaching appropriate hand gestures
That’s a BIG puddle!
Sierra and I played a new game. She think it’s a form of soccer. I think it’s a form of “Oh, hey, the hallway is the perfect width so I can sit with my back against the wall and just hang out while Sierra tries to get a ball past my 200 pound body.”
A cold windy morning at the beach
Strummin’
Dancin’
The creature emerges onto the land searching for food
Taking in the sun
Hanging out on the hill
I had a good laugh at this photo. The kids were playing hide and seek and this is where they chose to hide. Two feet from where they last were.
Waiting for the creature from the Black lagoon
Hanging out with Maman at the beach
Art time
Hunting bug time
Sierra’s first time using the bike pump
Sierra must have taken this photo while we were reading her a story. This is a typical view from her bed around 7:30PM in the summer.
The summer of never ending cake making!
Wow, that’s an intense face Sierra!
My uke cheat sheet
Helping Maman set up the tent
Big night of Sierra camping out for the first time! Maman and her started off with some marshmallows.
Shadow puppets!
Here they are before settling down for bed. Vero told me she didn’t get much sleep that night due to someone tossing and turning!
We heard about Prehistoric World from our friend so we decided we should check it out. Pro-tip, always have enough facemasks in the car during a pandemic and while you’re at it, carry some cash! Because we needed both when entering Prehistoric World near Morrisburg.
This place ended up being amazing. It looks like some guy has just made dinosaur statues over the past 40 years and charges admission to his property. It’s fantastic and a good hour with the kids.
I would hate to see what would happen if Sierra did manage to pull on his tail!
I believe this one is entitled “Dad, do a scary face!”
Look who wanted to sleep in the tent again! I can concur with Maman that it’s quite hard to sleep in a tent with a four year old! Plus it was quite cold!
Only professionals can walk a curb without falling off
Kapuskasing special
The greatest thing about our summer was not our deck, it wasn’t our swimming pool, it was the tent we set up! We left up there for the rest of the summer and many adventures were had with both Sierra and Ezra bouncing off the air mattress, reading books, finding bugs.
Corn time!!!! I can’t understand how she likes eating it raw.
This is entirely true.
It was nice to have some visitors near the end of the summer. Here is Grandpapa playing with Sierra
The hoarder in me always kept a lot of scrap wood for projects. But we had an electrician coming over to do some work for the new hot tub.
Bam! A decade of scrap wood was brought to the backyard firepit.
Picklin’ time! Last year we waited until mid September and the pickings were slim. We didn’t fall for that trap again this year.
I was in the backyard with Grandpapa and heard a jingle down the street. My eyes lit up and I went running to the street. Then I ran into the house saying “EVERYONE OUT! THERE IS AN ICE CREAM TRUCK HERE!!”
To put this into a little perspective, at 42 years old, this is probably the first time I have ever seen an ice cream truck come by my house. I think Vero ran a block to catch one when I lived in Orleans, but this was arriving right outside our doorstep. This was quite the treat for everyone involved!
Vars must have been quite the customers because this truck came back at least three times in the next few months.
Rule #1 of a water pistol fight – the other opponent always has to have a water pistol
The garlic is insane!
Quite the spicy concoction
Cheers!
I think this might have been the last sprinkler session of the summer
My picklin’ partner
Getting some corn ready
I can only assume they were checking to see how the pickling process was going
Grandmaman made a whole bunch of lasagnas for us to freeze and what was the first thing Sierra wanted the day after she left? Lasagna!
This time we remembered to bring some water shoes
Fetching some apples! There were tons this year
Now that some restrictions were loosened, we headed over to the Limoges park one morning. I quite enjoy that park!
Sierra wanted me to put on a princess dress
It was a year late but I finally got it! When filling out the form to receive my 15 years of service certificate, they asked which name I wanted to have on it. I had to go through some hoops but I’m quite happy that they printed this name!
