Back to the Real World

Well, to get started, our house exterior is finished and while on vacation our neighbor sent us a picture of it. We love it. Looks great.

New siding, windows, soffits, eavestroughs and we cut down the cedars

Now that it is all finished, we have to finalize it with a new front light, street address numbers and a mail box. So, I guess we are not really  finished yet.

In the meantime, we had a great time camping with our daughter and her family out in Nelson, BC. If you ever get to Kokanee Campground, you will love it. Beautiful. We had side by side sites so it made cooking and just 'being together' a lot easier.

Something for everyone!

The weather was wet when we got there and set up. However, although it rained overnite and a bit the next morning, it dried up in time for the kids' arrival that same night. From that time on, it was sunny and warm. There were mosquitos but the OFF kept them off. Alicia was the worst bit of everyone. She was covered but then again...she chose to run around in shorts and tank tops and was an 'open invitation to lunch' if you ask me. She scratched and scratched and scratched but still continued to wear shorts and tank tops! Kids!



Visiting the Glass House

 The kids brought their bikes and even Grace was pushing her newly acquired push cart around. There were two young boys in the site across the street from us so the boys were playing ball hockey or riding their bikes. The girls had to be more creative in their activiies.

Grace playing with clothes pegs

Since this picture, Grace has ventured out on her own into the real world. Now it will be hard to keep an eye on her but ... c'est la vie! 

Our usual 'around the campfire' included talking and of course, roasting marshmallows. Ethan was the best at that!

Always make sure it's all over the fingers!

Everyone has their own way of roasting!



Justing sitting around the fire is fun too!

  There was always something going on with all of us there so it was a good time. It had rained a lot in the area so the ground was saturataed but the kids found lots to do.

Just relaxin' with Grace

We spent a week here and then we all moved on. We headed to Radium and they went to Kelowna. Both of us had great weather at our separate locations. Radium was almost empty this year as they had been making some infrastructure improvements and were not allowing any reservations on line. It was 'first come, first served' so I guess people were unsure if there would be space.  Well....there was LOTS of space. It was nice and quiet with about 30% occupancy. Real easy to go for a shower in the morning!!




Quiet and peaceful

After a week here, we thought we would overnite in Kananaskis country where my brother and wife are working this summer. As it happened, the weather was going to be rainy overnite so after a short visit we headed home instead of having to put down the tent trailer in the rain. I guess it did start raining about 4 am so we would have been 'saying a few words' while putting down! It all worked out in the long run though. It is a beautiful location so we will have to go back sometime in the future to camp there as well. They did have a few grizzly bears in the area as this picture shows. They were only about 20 feet - give or take a few, but whose counting!

Note baby bear just by the truck fender

Anyway, we had a great two weeks and even though we ended up home a few days early, it all worked out well. There is always something to do here and I have been doing it too! The kids are back in Edmonton for a ball hockey tournament that Josh is in so we will enjoy watching him play a few games and then they are back to Vancouver on the weekend. We packed a lot into a few weeks.

Time to relax and enjoy our new place. Summer has just started!