Thursday, August 21, 2008
New "Do"
Molly got her haircut. The lady cut it about three inches shorter than Molly asked plus she didn't want it shorter in back but this is what she got! 
Monday, August 18, 2008
Now That was a VACATION!!!!
We arrived home last night at about 8:45. It was a 12 hour drive. It was the BEST vacation. Pure relaxtion! I'm pretty much a "homebody" but this time I was not ready to come home to "reality". We had perfect weather although for the first time ever, there were mosquitos!! Here we are on the Trans Candian Highway "almost there". 
We stayed at Neys Provincial Park for the first time in 2001 when we went around Lake Superior. We fell in love with this area and have been back almost every year since.
Truthfully......below is the reason Dad takes us back so often. The fishing is phenomenal! You don't get many Brook Trout this size in our state. Brett and Wade came up for five days to fish. Dad caught his 17 inch brookie and was pumped! A short while later, Brett "stoled his thunder" and caught a 20 incher! (Brett also caught a 12 inch and Dad a an 11 inch on this same night.)
The girls went fishing quite a bit with Dad. Here's one of the two clam's Kaitlin caught. (She did catch a few fish also.)
Wade got hims self a nice size Pike.
The girls got to be pretty good fishergirls. Notice, Amanda......no pliers. They got to be pretty good at baiting their own hooks and weren't afraid to handle the fish. We had several delicious meals of fish. Two meals of brook trout and three of Perch. Dad and the girls caught 7 perch one night and 10 another. Dad, Brett and Wade caught 16 Perch one night also. You can't beat that fresh trout or perch!!
The sites at Neys are the best! This is our site from the road.
Here is our site from the back of it. Total privacy. We couldn't see our neighbors on either side.
The kids spent a fair amount of time on the beach. The water wasn't the best this year. Some years are better than others and this happened to be the worse we've had as far as wood chips in the water. They still swam as it cleared up away from shore. The beach is real shallow here so they could go way out and it still wasn't deep. It was perfect for the evenings when there were big waves. I didn't get too nervous watching them.
Of course we had our share of smores.
We stayed at Neys Provincial Park for the first time in 2001 when we went around Lake Superior. We fell in love with this area and have been back almost every year since. 
Truthfully......below is the reason Dad takes us back so often. The fishing is phenomenal! You don't get many Brook Trout this size in our state. Brett and Wade came up for five days to fish. Dad caught his 17 inch brookie and was pumped! A short while later, Brett "stoled his thunder" and caught a 20 incher! (Brett also caught a 12 inch and Dad a an 11 inch on this same night.)
The girls went fishing quite a bit with Dad. Here's one of the two clam's Kaitlin caught. (She did catch a few fish also.)
Wade got hims self a nice size Pike.
The girls got to be pretty good fishergirls. Notice, Amanda......no pliers. They got to be pretty good at baiting their own hooks and weren't afraid to handle the fish. We had several delicious meals of fish. Two meals of brook trout and three of Perch. Dad and the girls caught 7 perch one night and 10 another. Dad, Brett and Wade caught 16 Perch one night also. You can't beat that fresh trout or perch!!
The sites at Neys are the best! This is our site from the road.
Here is our site from the back of it. Total privacy. We couldn't see our neighbors on either side.
The kids spent a fair amount of time on the beach. The water wasn't the best this year. Some years are better than others and this happened to be the worse we've had as far as wood chips in the water. They still swam as it cleared up away from shore. The beach is real shallow here so they could go way out and it still wasn't deep. It was perfect for the evenings when there were big waves. I didn't get too nervous watching them.
Of course we had our share of smores.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Little Helpers (sort of)
Danny and Jeanie helped clean out the Yukon. They (we) are getting excited for vacation. Jeanie was all set to help me load the trailer today. I have two weeks of groceries to haul out and she woke up all excited to help until the neighbor girl showed up at the door and now she's gone! I'll see what help I can get out of Danny. You never know, if he wants to, he's a great help. But if he doesn't want to, forget it!!! Right now he's down the basement playing "Weatherman" at the chalkboard. He printed off the next weeks forecast and is down there drawing on the board, reading the forecast. Molly spent the night at the Kramers and the twins have to work in an hour so it may just be me loading.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Happy Birthday Heidi Sue (and I guess me)
I realized when I saw Jen's blog that we both had the same cake last year. Cheesecake with raspberry sauce for Heidi and Saunder's Cake for me. (The cheesecake is definately the better of the two but Danny thought I should have Saunder's Chocolate Cake.) Thanks for all the birthday calls.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Jacob Bruce
I was going to email these to you girls but decided others might enjoy seeing this little peanut. What a cutie! Congratulations to Shannon and Bruce! He is adorable! eta: these pictures are from Uncle Joe
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