Bonus Baynes Lake Photos

Look out Jansen! Here I come!

Jansen took this photo with his mom's iphone. Very nice!!

July Long at the Cabin

We spent the July long weekend at Sarah's cabin near Fernie, BC in Baynes Lake. We've been there a few times with the boys as you have seen on the blog. We started out on thursday morning with Kristin and took a break in Blairmore at a playground.

Sarah arrived later with her little family. The boys are watching Thomas the Train on the computer here.

We went to the beach twice at Surveyor's Lake. Kristin and I took the preschoolers out on the water in lifejackets.

Each day we packed a picnic lunch. The weather was perfect.

This was Elliott's first time in Baynes Lake and also at the beach. He was in the water for more than half an hour. There were lots of babies there.

Kristin and Sarah were proud of their lawn chairs from Costco. Many others had them on the beach too.

Mads ate nearly an entire watermelon while we were there. We all wore red on Canada Day.

The kids ate around 5:00pm and the parents ate after 7:00 when the babies were in bed.

The preschoolers got to stay up a bit later and hang out at the campfire. We did have to wake up pretty early as Mads wakes us up by 5:45am.

On Saturday morning, there was a farmers market in the little town so we hung out there and bought some fudge. Then we played at the old school playground. When was last time you saw one of these merry go rounds?

On the second day at the beach, there were many many more people. But was fun people watching.

There were some guys a few years younger than us with shaved heads, built bodies and tattoos. They made a lot of noise and everyone was watching them.

I asked Bobs what his favourite cabin activity was and he said it was the farmers market. I don't really believe that. It has to be the beach!

We set up a nice shaded area and ate watermelon.

Funny how Bobs wears the same water outfit as last year.

It was Daddy's birthday on July 2nd and we made cupcakes to celebrate. The preschoolers were more than enthusiastic about it.

We let them decorate the cupcakes with smarties and we had hot dogs for dinner. ;)

After dinner someone invited the crazy chair game. Kristin spun them around on the chair, and then after they got really dizzy, they had to retrieve a ball. It was really funny to watch the boys fall to the ground.

The cabin is from the 70's and has been in Sarah's family for at least 25 years. There are some old forts left from the early days.

We brought the bicycles along. Jansen is much faster than Bobs. Bobs barely likes to go on the bike, but it helps that Jansen loves to ride. We heard Bobs say at one point "Look out Jansen!! Here I come!" As he was walking his bike slowly. There is no way he will ever catch up to Jansen.

I think Daddy had a really great day for his birthday.

We left early today at 6:30am. Mads was up at 5:30 and we had already packed. We had Tim Hortons in Fernie and then stopped at Chain Lakes provincial park's playground on the way home.

Mish Mosh of Events of a Weekend

We spent each morning hanging out on the Sixth Step.

Bobs got spiderman pj's from Mormor for his birthday. The hat says on it that it isn't meant to be slept in.

We went to another birthday party for 3 year old Marseille. She has a little brother McLean, and both are born the same months as Mads and Bobs.

The birthday theme was Dora the Explorer. Mads and Bobs have no clue who she is.

As Marseille's dad is British, the food was a roast and yorkshire pudding. Mads didn't like the yorkshire pudding and I was pretty surprised. I said it was because he prefers the Danish side of his culture.

We also went to an early Stampede breakfast in a community in the deep south of Calgary called Chaparral. Joshua and his family live there and they invited us along with Cael and his parents.

The community is quite nice, once you get out there. It's on a human made lake and they had a fair set up after the pancake breakfast.

These boys got to bounce in bouncy castles two weekends in a row! I think their favourite was a big huge inflatable slide that they lined up for twice.

Mads hung out in the middle of the fair in a grassy area with his ball and he had fun entertaining himself.

All in all, a busy weekend. Thank goodness we have the work week to rest....

Riley Park

We had a Dr. appointment and also a picnic with friends at Riley Park today. When Dr. Singh asked Bobs if he can ride a bike, he told her he has two bikes. It's true. He also skirted the question - he isn't very skilled at riding a bike yet.

Mads loves to copy everything Bobs does including hanging out on what they call the 6th step with Bobs' blankets.

We met up with Camryn and her mom ( a friend from elementary school ) and Elliott and Sarah for a picnic on what is so far, the hottest day of 2011.

We intended to picnic without heading to a wading pool. Then we decided last minute once we met up at Camryn's house, to head to Riley. I just happened to have Mads' swimsuit that I was going to give to Elliott, so Mads wore that, and Erik borrowed a swim diaper. They both loved the water.

This purple dress is my signature summer outfit this year. You'll see a lot of it!

We brought two balls for Mads because he can be entertained anywhere with them.

Mads has no fear compared to Bobs. He will run right into the deeper part of the water.

Even almost 5 month old Elliott had some water action. The weekend after this, we are heading to their cabin near Fernie for some more lake/beach time. We are so glad to have summer finally here!