This Summer is going by way too fast

I'm sorry sorry I haven't been blogging lately. Lots has been going on. We finished the bathroom downstairs which was a big job. We did tile on the floor and around and above our shower. (I will blog some pictures of it at a later date.) Basically the basement is finished except for some baseboard and Julia's door trim. Renos are very time consuming.
Also this weekend a water line in our cud-a-sac burst and part of the road sank in. At the same time we discovered a water leak in our front hose pipe. It didn't wreck anything in the house but it made a mess of my garden. This all happened on my birthday too. At least Shawn and I celebrated my birthday earlier in the week. We went for dinner and a movie. He also took me shopping.(I got some shoes, jeans and a jacket.)

More Camping Photos

Here is the 6 man bike that we went on. Julia hurt herself really bad. It's been one week since we went on that bike and she still has a huge bruise.
The guys and the older kids playing mini golf. Julia being such a competitive kid would not play on the same hole as everyone else because she didn't want anyone to beat her. We have only taken her mini golfing maybe 5 times in her life and she can't play that well. I tried to help her a little bit but helping Julia is like pulling teeth.My poor boy had to be leashed up at our camp site on day three because he kept running away to other peoples campsites. We had a close call with a guys truck, so I said that was it. He was upset for a couple of hours and then he found a sand pit at the back of our campsite. He was good to go once there was dirt and sand involved.

Camping Time

Our whole family went camping at Shuswap lake from July 31 to August 4th. The kids had a blast. Every night all my children needed a shower before bed. Kailey and Thomas were sometimes unrecognizable.All my kids love getting dirty only when camping not at home.
There was a big gated play area for the kids to play at in the day. They would go there right after breakfast and stay there until lunch time. In the after noon we would go do some kind of family adventure. We went to the beach only one day on our camping trip. There was really bad cedar itch (duck mite) in the water and it really grossed me out. Plus it is very itchy and I didn't want to chance Julia or Thomas getting it. They are our drama children when it comes to being sick. Kailey could care less. Anyways here are some pics.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Julia on our trip, so I had to post it.

Dad's 50th

We left for our holidays on July 29th up to Kelowna just for a couple of days before our camping trip. My mom had a Hawaiian Luau for my dad's 50th birthday party. Jeff Jaggard taught us how to do some hawaiian dancing which was a lot of fun and I'm sure we looked ridiculous. We also drank alot of pina coladas (yummmm!) Kailey couldn't stay awake past 7pm and was fast asleep on her uncle Stephen's bed.
Aloha!!