Thursday, July 30, 2009

camping at the lake

Hello, Hello. I have such a backlog of photos on the computer and posts floating around in my brain, I have a hard time jumping back in here. So I will start by posting photos from our little camping adventure which we just returned from a few hours ago. We went with my mom and aunt and cousin who are up for a visit, and had this lovely lake to ourselves (well, us and the 30 thousand black flies that is. The other campers obviously had got the memo on where the fly-less sites were located. Oh well. We had fun anyway.) Playing and crawling and nursing in the tent to take some breaks from the critters. Both boys were rather thrilled with tenting, and slept pretty well in there. And it was a nice cool break from our overheated bedrooms at home. Because it has been so hot here! It was 37 degrees up on the farm yesterday. That never happens here.
So swimming in the lake was a treat. D. would have happily sat in there all day. And A. enjoyed feeding black flies to the minnows. Good fun.
We took turns walking the baby, who suddenly wants only to move about this way. He is so very proud of this new trick.
Board games and reading bedtime stories with a lantern and my mom's yummy gourmet camping food. We've decided camping is fun.

Friday, July 24, 2009

4 years and ten


friends breaking bread at our wedding.

At the river a few days after the big party
It has been ten years we've been on this journey together, (and four years since we made it "official"- though we felt married right from the start,) and I am endlessly grateful to be sharing it with my best friend and love. Kind soul, gentle companion, confidant, beautiful partner, patient, loving papa to our beautiful children. How lucky, how blessed I feel to share this life together. Here's to many more decades of beauty and love and fun and adventures. I love you P. Now if only we could slip away long enough to manage a real, live date...