Ian & Helena

Well, we had a great time camping with the gang on the long weekend.  For those of you who don’t know, mom & dad have, for years now, gone motor-bike camping on the long weekend, with about half of Agassiz and a few people from Minnesota (my mom’s sister & family).  Anyway, after a long hiatus of joining them, we ventured out on our first real camping trip with the kids.  And they loved it! 

Here’s, Rory, Stevie, & friend Cayden playing in the soot-like sand/dirt.  Amazingly dirty, but they had a great time!

 Stevie heading down the ’slide’ 

 Rory in his favourite position - with a vehicle, but especially a big truck! 

Breanna participating in our annual spa afternoon, where we wash each other’s hair, give facials, and this year foot baths, hand massages, and toenail painting! 

 A few pictures around the fire and doing lunch dishes (keep in mind that we may not be looking our best after a few days without showers:)):

Funny, we really have no pictures of the bikes!  Stevie was the bravest of the kids and took a little ride whiel uncle Thomas held her, and Breanna didn’t seem to mind sitting on them too much.  Rory was all talk before hand - go fast motorbike, he’d say, but once someone fired one up he wanted nothing to do with them anymore.  But all three kids definitely got a little more comfortabel with the bikes over the weekend, and now Rory’s toy bikes have a lot more meaning for him, I’m sure.

The kids were actually all a bit sick on the weekend, and Rory said the cutest thing.  We had soup for lunch, and later when I checked on him napping, he was sitting up, and he looks at me and says with a mournful look, “spilled soup!”…he’d thrown up in mom & dad’s trailer.  But we were pretty lucky during travelling times though; no one spilled soup in the van.

We stayed at mom & dad’s cabin on the way there & back and it was neat to see the kids’ reactions since they have little memory of it from last year.  Rory was just enthralled with the wildlife, and the boats, of course!

We’re heading out this weekend again to camp with Theresa & Shaun, Karen & Brent, & some friends.  We’re looking forward to it now that we’ve got it figured out a little!