"Everyone loves Marineland"

Olivia sang that all day as we enjoyed our visit with the marine life. Amazing creatures they are. This is a photo I took of Olivia feeding a Beluga whale, she was all smiles. I bought the photo the park photographer took as well, it turned out perfect...her smiling while touching the whale and the angle is perfect....better be for $16 for a 6x8 (ouch) but I had to have it. I don't think we were 10 minutes out of the parking lot and she was out like a light.

She asked me if we could go back tomorrow....

summer time...

It's been so humid, I like the warm weather but not the humidity. Good thing for air conditioning and a pool!

A Julie Bonner sketch!

Her sketches are so fresh, I just love them and her style of creating. Clean simple and just the right amount of embellies and layering. She has a current one up on her blog right now, you can find it here.

This layout was created awile ago now, I love this design too I just might have to do another one like this.

Front Row Seats

Awesome seats we managed to get ourselves at the Canal Days Fireworks this year. Olivia wasn't too impressed this time, don't know why as she love the Canada Day display here in town. At any rate we all enjoyed ourselves this weekend and managed to hook up with some fabulous friends of ours, Bill and Jess.

Summer is half way done...bummer. I still have a few weeks left of holidays and we are going to the trailer with some Friends in a few weeks which I'm sure will be an absolute blast for all of us.

Olivia's swimming is progressing nicely, she loves the water, that's the easy part the hard part is teaching the respect for the water. When hubby was in the hospital a few weeks ago she and I would swim at 9pm when the water was 92 degrees then go and put our pj's on and go to bed. That was heaven! He's home now and the water is only 84 today...still good but I really liked how warm it was.

This is a picture of Olivia swimming with her gand-papa over the weekend.

6 Flags and 2 Boys....

Sounds like a great title for a page!

They had a blast, I said yes to eveything they asked, gosh I wish that would happen to me...LOL. A cloudy start to the day but so worth it, the clouds kept the crowds away so we could play.

I'll have to play with these photos a bit, I'm sure they will get my mojo going again they are so fun!

A fresh summer hair cut....

Seems to be catchy in my house right now, all the new haircuts. Hubby needs to have his curly locks cut off now too. Olivia and I went out last night and cut all her hair off. I have been toying with it for months, I'm ready then I change my mind.

At the Canada Day parade last week one of the floats held 9 girls who were cutting their hair for "Hair for Angels" it's an organization who provides wigs to children who's parents can't afford an expensive wig for their sick child. So the group of girls needed one more pony to have their magic number (your need 10 pony's to make a wig) Well that did it for me! We set our appointment, received a really cute cut and helped someone out.

It will grow again, and I will enjoy the process of growing it back. The next time we cut it off for a donation she will be old enough to understand what she is really doing.

Those blue eyes.....

Gosh how they looked so blue at dusk tonight. She wanted to play on the slip and slide tonight and I tried to distract her with a bike ride but it didn't work. She sat on the big rock and pouted, then she said she was going to sit there until daddy came home to turn the hose on for her. That broke my heart because I don't know when daddy is coming home.

He went into the hospital last Tuesday with a serious internal infection and has been on intervenes antibiotics ever since. Slow but sure he is coming along. We will see what the first of the week brings.

So I turned on the hose for her. We have hot and cold water in the garage so she enjoyed the luke-warm water on her slide tonight....not too long though, need that hot water for the washer.