Summer Vacation, Part 2: Collingwood

For the second part of our vacation, we flew to Toronto to hang with the family in Collingwood. Most of the time the kids built a fort in the basement of Gramma's house, but I don't have any pictures of that. It did take an incredible amount of time, I can tell you that much. Meanwhile, I zipped through the Stiers Larsson Millenium series.

We did get to spend some time in Mary's pool (fun! and salty!), go to a movie (Despicable Me - light bulb!), go to the beach, and come THISCLOSE to seeing a no-hitter at the SkyDome, pardon me, "Roger's Center" (seriously - it's a dome, call it that!)

Photo evidence:





Mackenzie went swimming in the lake! Woo Hoo!


Bautista at bat...

Brandon Morrow had to settle for a one-hitter when Evan Longoria hit a single up the first baseline with two outs in the 9th. Too bad... it was an EXTREMELY exciting game. Just look at us:

Update

The weather is no longer on fire. Unfortunately, the forecast is still not good.

Summer Vacation Part 1: The Lake

We had an amazing week at Lake of the Woods. The weather was gorgeous, the lake was perfect, and the people were FUN!!!

We did lots of stuff - like hanging out at the dock,


swimming,

relaxing in the hot tub,


wakeboarding, (I still have to get my videos up, this is Julia, age almost 5, ripping it up),

and boat rides (you need a jacket because Uncle Clancy goes fast!).


It was a great family vacation.


Cheers!

How's the weather?

It's on fire!

Sassah!!!

For as long as she can remember, Sarah has had long hair. Last summer, she trimmed off 7 inches, and here's how long it grew:


Not any more!

Time for a change for Sarah. She decided she'd trim off enough that she'd be able to donate some hair to a worthy cause. The salon we frequent donates hair to Kids for Cancer, and they require a minimum donation of 8 inches of hair.


Sarah went bigger. Today she cut off 14 inches of hair - almost half the length of her entire head of hair.





Doesn't she look great? Shorter is sassier - or to adapt her name for herself when she was learning to speak - Sassah-i-er!