more may long

We had so much fun camping at Fitzroy and we were enjoying our new trailer so much, we didn't want to go home at the end of May Long Weekend.

So we didn't.
We headed south to the States, with our trailer in tow. We camped in Watertown,NY for a couple more days so the kids could do some more bike riding...

some more swimming...

and some more of their favorite camping activity, s'more making...


And then finally we had to go home.
Like, for real this time.

beach bum

{Miss S playing on the beach at Fitzroy Harbour - camping May Long Weekend}

may long weekend 2011

We bought a new trailer just in time for the May Long Weekend.
Literally.
Just. In. Time.

This is how it happened. We had been wanting to pick up our tent trailer all week and get it ready for our weekend away, but it kept raining so we didn't want to open it up and have the tent get all wet. When K finally picked up the tent trailer to open it up there were a few obvious problems with it that needed to be fixed. When K called the dealership to see about having it repaired they let him bring it in right away. So then, as he was at the dealership having the old trailer repaired, he started looking at new ones.

This was when he concocted his "maybe we should just get a new trailer" theory. So by the time I had arrived at home that evening {and found the nice new trailer brochures all over the kitchen table} K had it all figured out. I wasn't that hard to convince...he had me at the "it has a bathroom" part. And so next day, when I was supposed to be packing for the weekend and picking the kids up early from school, we spent the day at the trailer dealership buying our new trailer. And then somehow still managed to race to the school to get the kiddies and make it to the Fitzroy Harbour camp ground before dark.

Just in time for it to start raining.

But the next day the sun was out and we discovered that a friend of ours and his boys were camping in the site right next to ours. So we spent the weekend camping with them and had a great time. And Lee Ann and her girls drove out to spend the day with us at the campground's beach...


Thankfully Lee Ann brought an extra swimsuit for Miss S because in all the rush to throw things in the new trailer and get going...swimsuits were one of the {many} things we forgot to pack.

the help

I just finished reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett and just loved it. I would recommend it to every woman I know, definitely a 'must read'. There are some books that I enjoy so much I don't want them to end, but yet I read them quickly because I don't want to put them down...and that was the case with The Help.

Check out the synopsis and Kathryn Stockett's website, and if you haven't already read it, go get yourself a copy now!

pages

Some quick & simple pages, put together this morning...

It has been a while since I've done any scrapbooking, and I find a quick & simple page is often just what I need to get me kick-started again!

sledding

One of the kids' favorite things about our yard is...

the big slope in between our home and our neighbor, that all the kids sled down in the winter!

This year there were more obstacles to get around, as we put up a fence in the summer, but those crafty kids just figured out a way to make a 'track' in the snow that took them away from the fence and towards our neighbors' skating rink...

fall photo shoot

While waiting for Christine and her boys to meet us at Jack Pine Trail this past weekend, I took the opportunity to have an impromptu 'photo shoot'. The scenery was beautiful, the weather was great, I {of course} had my camera with me. The hard part, was convincing the subject of my photo to cooperate. To simply smile...

or even just look at the camera. I think Miss S is over to the right here, putting on a little show to encourage a laugh. She likes to help like that...

Seriously, it's like pulling teeth...

And then of course, having two subjects in my photo just doubles my trouble. I'm over HERE Miss S...

Alright, enough already. This is as good a photo I'm going to get, I guess...

Can't you just hear them saying "Are we done yet?"