Shuswap: a comedy of mishaps!

Our summer vacation wasn't quite what we expected:
- Amelia is a terrible traveller (if you're not there in an hour expect the shrieking to start and she does not sleep in the car!)we travelled a total of 15 hours
- our bank and credit cards were frozen because of our increased spending out of country (duh, we're on vacation!)We found this out in the grocery store when I was trying to pay for a weeks worth of groceries for 2 families
- Aiden locked the keys and cell phone in the truck
- the weather was not great (we were rained off the beach three days in a row)
- the fourth day we went into town to play mini golf and drive go carts and enjoyed a summer rain storm while playing outdoor mini golf ( Amelia was completely overtired and layed on the green having a temper tantrum both Dale and I just watched her {I can't say we didn't want to join her} )
- the power went out for a couple of hours in the cabin one day and I was starting to worry we would lose all our food
- it's not really a 'vacation' when you travel with young children
We left Shuswap on Thursday and drove over to my parent's cabin 3 hours away hoping for a little grandparent respite
- I got sick within hours of arriving there and spent a day in bed
- it was cold and rainy at their place too
- the power went off at their cabin also
It wasn't a terrible trip and we have pictures to prove it but I'll post those tomorrow!

Newspaper bunting: a tutorial

I think this would be adorable to make for a first day of school banner, baby shower, birthday etc. Click on title for instructions!

soccer stars

daddy's girl

delirious....

or eternally optimistic!

pretzel thief

While enjoying a splash at the water park Amelia bolted to the playground. She crashed these little girls play restaurant and starting shoving their pretzels in her mouth. They were very gracious and gave her a few more to enjoy.

Rainbow Brite

Amelia 'coloring'.