Sandy Beach Park

We went down to Sandy Beach Park today because the sun was out and we felt like some fresh air.

This park doesn't really have a sandy beach. More like a rocky pebble beach along the Elbow River.

As we were setting up the self timed camera, Bobs positioned himself and a little girl with her 8 week old puppy entered the shot. Bobs had no idea. He is afraid of dogs and had no clue a little puppy was snuggling up to him.

Then we got our shot. Not really Christmas card worthy but we are all there!

This is the beach. It usually has a lot of rocks, but due to the flood, the bridge got washed away and so did all the rocks. It was very muddy.

Further upstream, we found some great skipping rocks. Do you see all that erosion?

Griffith Woods

A Spence Thanksgiving

Early Morning.

Later that day, we had a total of 8 kids for thanksgiving.

We had duck, red cabbage, sweet potato mash, veggies and buns for dinner.

MMM mmmm mm.

The kids were in the basement playing and we grabbed our food and shoved it down.

The kids played well, so we actually got to sit around and eat and talk like adults. Then we went outside for a walk.

Ike was helping Elliott up which was sweet considering they just met a few hours prior.

We played in the backyard.

Then we explored the fall trees.

Everyone fought over the wagon.

We tried to get everyone together for a group photo.

Cheeese.

Wrestling.

Ipadding.

Popcorn and movies.

So much to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving!

A Puppy Sleepover

Elliott's parents had a wedding to attend so we had a sleepover on saturday night.

Do you recognize the brown jacket? Both Mads and Bobs have worn it too.

Uje and Sabu's twin niece and nephew joined us for supper as they were also having a weekend sleepover at their aunt and uncle's. They are a few months older than Mads.

Elliott brought his puppy over for the sleepover and he fit in nicely with Mads' five puppies that he sleeps with each night.

We don't know if Elliott's puppy has a name, but Mads' puppies are: Browny, Smokey, Dalmation, Spot, and Sally (who actually belongs to Erik and he is Spot's mom). We think Elliott's puppy's name should be Ringo.

After a quiet night's sleep, the boys woke up and and the puppies played together and hid from monsters.