Our Summer Vacation

The Big Green Dump Truck in Sparwood, BC - we take
the same picture every year.

For our summer vacation this year, we did the same thing we did for the last few years – we went to our trailer which happens to be parked in a lovely campground resort on a lake, we all LOVE it.

The campgroud is called Eagle's Nest Resort - Hubby
snapped this picture with his iPhone one morning.

So since we have been doing our summer vacation in the same place for the last 4 years and it is also the same place we spend every summer long weekend, we didn’t really do anything new.  There were however 2 small changes to our lives that we got to benefit from this vacation making it so far our best ever family vacation!

This was our first vacation in 5 years that no one was in diapers or pull ups and it was also the first vacation in 5 years that no one needed to take a nap!

Two major benefits in our books.

We were at the beach almost every day.

It was hot.
We went for bike rides.
We took walks.
We threw rocks into the lake.
We had camp fires and a sand castle contest.
We had a blast.

Here are a few photos from the week.

A Turtle Climbing onto a Rock
3rd Place!

Self portrait

On Holidays

I am outta here!

So our family is heading to the lake / trailer for a week.

We'll be enjoying some beach time.

A campfire or two.

And maybe a few cocktails!

(Sorry no picture of the drinks - we are too busy drinking them to take pictures usually.)


I have a few people guest posting for me next week though, so check back to hear what they have to say!

Cheers,

Jenny

Easter at Our House

Happy belated Easter to everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend.  We had a nice quiet Easter.
It was absolutely lovely.

It started with a family brunch on Friday morning, and then we had not other plans or commitments all weekend - well other than making sure we were home for the Easter Bunny on Sunday morning.

I failed to take any pictures other than the Easter Egg Hunt, so here you go: Easter Egg hunt in our house Sunday morning.

This year the Easter Bunny put a few eggs outside.  Oh you should have seen them - it was all we could do to get them to put jackets and shoes on - they both tried to get outside in bare feet and just pajamas.

Family Holidays - Fort Steele

We decided this year to try out Fort Steele with the kids.  Since they are pretty small, and you do have to pay admission, we have always steered clear thinking they would be bored as soon as we got there, or we would not get our money's worth in the short time between naps allowed.

But we found out this trip we were wrong.

Admission to Fort Steele is $5 for adults and kids under 5 are free!
Then we paid $5 for a wagon ride (for myself - the kids were free) and $10 each adult for a train ride - again - free for the kids!!

(They do have a price that gets you into everything, but since we were not doing the Theatre, it was not worth it for us).

First impressions of Fort Steele is much like Heritage Park, but no where near as busy.  They have more animals, all over the place there are vegetable gardens - honestly it felt much more like a real town than Heritage Park (no gardens, no cats and dogs walking down the road, no pigs and chickens around the next corner).

All the staff is dressed in costume, there are small skits being played out in different areas throughout the day.

There are quite a few operating businesses, the blacksmith, leather works shop, general store, etc.

Hubby was feeling a little "ill" that morning (it might have had to do with the extra drinks around the campfire the night before), so this is me taking a picture of him laying on a bench while I take the kids for a wagon ride.

Train Ride!
In all honesty, the train ride is much better at Fort Steele than Heritage park.  The train ride takes you out of the park and stops once at a view point, then you get back in and continue on the ride.

It was much better for the kids.  They like to go fast and stop as little as possible.

Lunch - we chose to have lunch in a restaurant, every day they have a buffet where you can choose just soup and salad or hot lunch.  The selection was okay - not amazing - but it was not deep fried and tasted good - the kids - under 6 (I think) pay their age for lunch.

I liked that it was easy to find a healthy lunch that did not include fries and hot dogs.

Overall we had a great day, we did not spend much time in the buildings reading and learning - the kids are just way too young for that, but for the price, and how cheap it was, we had a great time.

Family Holidays - Big Green Dump Truck

In Sparwood BC they have a retired super big dump truck.

This truck used to be used at the local mines, but now it is a tourist attraction and oneof our kids favourites!

A photo would not be complete without the dog!

Family Holidays - Lundbreck Falls

For our family summer holidays we headed out to our trailer that is parked on Moyie Lake.

When we are going for 2 weeks we take our time driving, stopping at places we normally fly past at 100 (or so) km/h.

This year we stopped at Lundbreck Falls (pretty much right where highway 22 and highway 3 meet).

As luck would have it, a train was just coming by as we drove up.

Little Boy, loves trains!

It was a great little stop, a little chilly due to wind and the spray from the waterfalls.

There is also camping in th area.

Welcome Back!

I know I have been M.I.A. for a while, but I have an excuse, I was on holidays and there is virtually no internet access!  (I have mixed feeling about that, but it is probably for the best that I am not blogging, facebooking and tweeting while I am suppose to be hanging my the kids, sharing a drink with my hubby and chatting around the campfire with friends.)

But because I was so busy getting us all packed and ready for 2 weeks at our trailer, I missed doing a few posts I wanted to before I left, so I will post them over the next few days and then follow with some posts about our holidays.