We Live for Summer! Month 2.

And here's August!

Ottawa: Saunder's Farm:

Ottawa: Museum of Science and Tech.  Logan's favorite part was a virtual snow-mobile ride.  We spent most of our time here.

Ottawa: Valley View Animal Farm:

Poker boat races.  

Splash parks and tree climbing:

Camping on Wolffe Island:

Whatever this is:

Practicing testimonies at the church.  Lucy bore her testimony for the first time on Sunday after a month of practicing.  

Most of our summer was spent with the Larocques':

The beach!

Lots of giggling.  Practicing Headstands:  

Painting Projects: 

A Surprise Anniversary trip to the states.  Olive Garden is the best restaurant in the world!

More painting projects: 

Icecream truck:

The biggest news for our family this summer came when Tyler was called to be the Branch President.  We have a lot of support out here and he's filling out the role nicely already.  It's exhausting though, and most Sundays he falls into a heavy state of meditation after getting home.  

I love summer.  I have always said that Autumn is my favorite season because of the smells and colours and halloween and my birthday...but really, you can't beat summer.  

We Live For Summer

We live for summer.  In all my 'do-nothingness' this summer, I didn't have time for blogging.  So here goes.  This is what we did.

We finally swam in the Quarry.  We've lived on Quarry Pond Court for 2 years...and only just swam in the quarry this year.  It's everything we hoped it would be.

Popsicles, freezies, icecream, yes please!

Max was in a British soccer camp for a week and did AWESOME!  Rain or shine.  

We did the beach.  A lot.  

Buskers!

I went to Girls Camp for a week and met this little fella.  It was the hottest week of the summer.  I was on my feet like crazy and drank water like crazy.  And when I came home, my feet bloated up like crazy!

I took this picture of Lucy after soccer one night and she made me promise.  PROMISE. that I would not post it to Facebook.  I didn't.  But I wanted to.  Oh, I wanted to.  

Canning.  Salsa and strawberry jam.  

Weddings.  I can't get enough of this kid's face.  

BBQs, fishing and boating.  

And that's just the first month.