Day 2

This is day two of my freaking neighbours noisy grandson who has a band in the basement of her house. It's driving me totally nuts. Last night it lasted till 9:00pm.

I'm considering writing up a nice letter and sending it over, or banging on the door with my fist and telling them to shut the f*$& UP!

can you tell I'm pms'ing

It's been four days since my bee sting. Today is the first day it actually looked pretty good. It was much bigger before. And it's itchy as heck! I put some mud * real mud from the ground* on it and that helps with the itch as well as I think it helped the swelling go down. I hope that I don't get stung again for another 22 years if never!

Last night I had a night off. The kids had their sleepover at grandma and grandpa's house. And so my friend and I went out for nachos and to a movie. We saw The Invasion. It was good, gross and weird all in one. If you can't stand to see someone vomit, do not watch this movie.

I got home around midnight and then today I cleaned the bathroom the laundry room and the storage closet. The kids are home now and strange enough, I have a headache!

School starts in 5 days!!!

Damnit!!! Grrrrrr

I was stung by a bee yesterday on my leg. Thing hurt like hell! I kept waking up all night because it is SUPER itchy and sore. I've put Tea Tree Oil on it, and I've put benedryl itch cream on it and I've taken Tylenol for pain. Today I'm going to go and get some sort of antihistamine I can take that won't make me feel like I'm flying, or that won't knock me out until next week.

Blackberries

Some of you may remember when we planted this Well... it has grown into this and now have these

Having Fun

We're having a great time camping. We've been out on boats and swimming, and fishing.
It's too darn cold out (we had to turn the fireplace in the cabin on) so I didn't really want to go swimming, but I went out there and watched anyway and took lots of pictures :)


We had a lot of fun fishing today. Megan caught this bass all by herself! We caught 6 bass and about 3 sunfish. Luckily Adam came out with us because I don't like to take them off the hook. haha.

Tonight we're going to have a campfire and roast some marshmallows and make smores :) YUM

Moving up in the world

I've been camping here since I as 12 years old. I'm sitting in the trailer now as I type. For the first time EVER!!! We have internet access and my super wonderful grandmother has a laptop :) WOOOHOO!

So we left this afternoon around 12pm. and finally got across the border at 2:30pm ick.. I hate it when the border is backed up.

We got here and what did it do? Thunderstorm. But it passed quickly and everything is fine. The kids just had us take them to the park, and now we're in the trailer watching the Jay's Game :)

It's going to be a super fun week!

There and back again

We started out at 11am Saturday morning. The kids were great in the car. They watched their DVD's and we're quite content. We stopped a few times along the way and then stopped for the night around 8pm. Thanks to Adam's mom for the extra money. We were planning to go straight through. The next morning we had an early start and arrived at our hotel about noon.
We quickly settled and then headed out to look around. Just across the street was a wonderful little beach. There the kids had their first look and feel and taste of the Ocean. And thanks to Jenny we also knew we'd be able to play here.

They were so excited to see all the shells, snails, fish, and rocks they quickly gathered as much as they could. We had to remind them they had 5 days !
The Ocean was cold so we did spend time in the pool. If you look real close you can see 'Steve Martin' in the background ;)
We did a lot of shopping. Megan loves to shop. I bet we'll have great times shopping together when she's older.

We found this sign and giggled.

We spent time at different beaches and that was a lot of fun.

I saw this on the beach and thought it was just wrong. Maybe it's just me?

On Tuesday we got to spend a day with Jenny! That was a lot of fun. She's the third blogger friend that I have met in real life, so maybe that is why I wasn't really nervous. But mostly I think it's because I have "known" her for such a long time since she is one of my first blogging buddies. It was so fun and yet strange at the same time to have "known" someone for so long, and to be only meeting them now. We had fun swimming and chatting

The Girlie had fun trying to convince Connor it was okay to swim in the lake and that the fish would not bite him.

Megan was determined to catch a fish in the net, but just couldn't do it
But The Boy was nice enough to catch one and show them

Jenny's kids are so great! And my kids just loved them. We got to meet Baxter and Megan again with her fear of dogs slowly warmed up to him.

She really loved Jenny though

Megan is quite the cuddle bug as Jenny soon found out :) I found it surreal to be in a place that I've only ever heard of and seen a few pictures of, from the days of Blackbird's Photo Friday's( I miss those by the way) and such. The only downfall to the whole day was while out by the lake, Megan had jumped up and knocked my grandmothers camera off of the table and it broke.

We spent the rest of that day looking for and buying a new camera. That was not very much fun. The kids were so tired from having so much fun with the Girlie and the Boy, but we managed to bribe them with Taco Bell and candies from Target :)

On Wednesday we were suppose to go on our whale watching cruise, but the weather didn't seem to want to co operate. So we switched it to Thursday and the weather was great! We saw A LOT of whales!

and even got to witness a humpback at feeding time.. which is truly amazing!
The kids had a great time enjoying the at least 7 foot waves while bouncing around on the boat.



We really had to hold on tight!



That night, Jenny drove out to pick me up (which is super nice since she lives quite a ways away!) and us girls got to go out for good eats and drinks! I had two yummy Mango Daiquiris!

We ended our vacation on Friday with another visit with Jenny and said our goodbyes. We had a great trip home. Which took us about 10 hours... the kids watched their DVD's again all the way home. With a few screaming matches here and there, but that's okay too. They were good for the most part and when we pulled into the drive way.... they didn't want to get out!

It was a wonderful trip. I hope the kids will remember it. I sure have a lot of pictures * I had such a hard time choosing which ones to use here*

Once home by the next day Adam had all our laundry finished, everything unpacked. We had our pictures developed, and our souvenirs delivered. Of course we needed to get groceries and cut the lawn and clean up the yard to get ready for my mom's 50th birthday party on Thursday. And Friday we leave again for a week to go camping! And can you believe how quickly the start of school is coming! Yikes!

**click pictures for larger view**

Dear Blog and blog friends

I have not forgotten you. I promise I will be here more come September, but right now I'm just really really busy. We're leaving on vacation in 2 days and I haven't even thought about starting to pack. The weather is not co operating either. It's just too damn hot and by hot I'm talking 120F disgusting humid hot.
See you in a week!