Weekend at Thunder Lake...

We spent the weekend with Mandy, Kelly and Hunter at their cabin about an hour and a half north west of Edmonton. We had an amazing time! Thunder Lake is a beautiful spot and the weather was perfect. We took Doog along and he especially enjoyed eating goose poo and disappearing off into the bush. We had a barbeque and sat around on the deck and around the firepit listening to Loons and watching the sun set over the lake. It couldn't have been a nicer weekend!

Me and Doog sitting on the deck overlookng the lake.

Neil and Kelly splitting logs for the firepit.

The lake shore just beyond Mandy and Kelly's cabin.

Hunter eating his dinosaur.

Doog watching the baby geese.

The sandy shore.

Doog on a pontoon.

Kelly chilling on the deck as the sun goes down.

Neil doing the same.

Smoking out the mosquitoes down by the fire pit..

Watching the sun set.

Wandering the lake shore.

Beaumont Daze...

As always I have just added some really exciting photos that demonstrate our action-packed and interesting lives! This weekend was the "Beaumont Town and Country Daze" festival . I don't know if it can really be described as a "festival" but we didn't really see enough of it to comment. We did get stuck on Saturday as we tried to leave town to go shopping. The road was closed for a few minutes as the "parade" went by. We saw a man (we assume he was the mayor?) waving very enthusiastically from the back of a pick-up as it slowly drove around the ring road followed by other pick-ups and a few people in costume. People had come out of their homes and set up on the curb side in lawn chairs and everything! Exciting!

Nigel and Sarah ventured out to the fun fair in the eveing but were a little dissapointed. Apparently it looked better from a distance. On the positive side, we were all very impressed with the firework show in Four Seasons Park which we watched from our back deck and Nigel and Sarah watched from their back bedroom window. I even managed to get some cool wobbly photos!

Squiggly

Neil and Doog watch the display from the deck.

We didn't do too much on Sunday other than hang around the house and mow the lawn. Here's a shot of our exciting, new, garden umberella.

And here's a shot of Neil's herbs which seem to have grown like crazy since Neil skillfully planted them a few weeks ago. (Apparently beer is the secret.)

Grassy flip flop's.

The neighbours welly rack.

See the light.

Here are a few shots from training. I thought I would add, seeing that I don't really put any of these on the blog.



I have been at training now for a while. It has been hard, long and fun all at the same time. I am finally nearing the end, (sort of) 7 more weeks to go.






Shooting at the range






Driving at the runway in the training cars.

WOOOOOOOOW

Hello. I cannot believe this is real but I got to see my little baby today for the first time. The ultrasound quality on the pictures are not that great. When i was watching the ultrasound being done on Sophie I could see everything very clear. The little baby just kept moving around and the tech couldnt get a clear shot. So anyway meet ??????

He looks just like me!

Close up's

Purple Flower

Candle Light

White Flower

Eye of Doog

Pink Flower



Green

Farewell Ged I and hello Ged II!

Today we said goodbye to Ged our volvo. He was getting a bit shakey and keeping him all fixed up was costing us a fortune. We were sad to see him go but we pulled off his number plate and officially named our new car Ged II.

Bye Bye Ged I!

Hello Ged II! A bit smaller, a bit newer and best of all...with a whole 2 years of warranty!

Looking cosy in his new home. I'm sure Neil won't let him stay out in the cold for long, he'll soon be tucked up in his new garage.

Neil here...... I decided to add a few more pictures.... nice eh?

Kim's house

Meet Cameron. This is Kim's little baby boy, he's only a few weeks old and he's very cute. We went to visit Cameron and his family today. They have 40 acres of woodland not far from Beaumont with donkeys and goats and quad bikes. We got to see Lightning, the baby donkey we visited a couple of months ago and also got to see some baby fainting goats that had just been born a few days ago.

Here's Kim and family walking the donkey family.

Baby Lightning skipping out of the trees.

Neil with the cutest of the goat triplets. We liked this one's crooked ears.

Neil and Cameron comparing hair styles.

Smiley, happy baby goat.

Cameron doing some opera singing.

Green grass and green trees at last!

Cameron's older brother Jordan.

May long weekend at home....

We've had some lovely weather lately, last week while we were stuck at work it almost reached 30 degrees but sadly this weekend it's cooled down and become a bit cloudy. Anyway I thought I'd add some photos to show you all how green and nice everything looks now (finally!) Here's a picture of the house I took about 5 minutes ago.
This photo of Doog was taken last night at about 8pm. It stays light here until about 10.30pm now.

Here I made Doogy pose in front of some flowers. You can tell by the way he's leaning back that I have a biscuit in my hand.
I thought I'd add this one in to show you all how different it looks out the back of the house these days. So many houses have gone up now. The house you can see on the right hand side is Nigel and Sarah's house. It should be ready for them to move into in October.

Here's another Doogy pose. I couldn't get him to sit facing me, he's not a very cooperative model.

Here's Neil mowing the front lawn last night for the first time since last October.



And this was last nights dinner. Since we got the BBQ we've been trying to work our way through the one ton supply of burgers we seem to have.

And this is me looking rather fat, anyone would think I'm pregnant or something.