August Long

These are pictures from August Long Weekend when we hosted our annual Family Campout. I didn't take many picture with my camera because as soon as I am around an SLR Digital I kind of forget about mine. Anyway these are a couple of shots.

Camrose Big Valley Parade

Every year Camrose has a parade before the Big Valley Jamboree. The last time we went Natasha was just coming 1. Now that we are so close to Camrose I am sure this will be an annual thing. It is quite a good, long parade. This year there was not to many animals and I found them quite "cheap" on the candy throwing. Other than that it was good. One float was actually throwing cowboy hats...which I did not catch. The girls had fun as did I.

Sunny

We got this kitten from a litter from my uncle. We said yes we would take a kitten when we moved and then we changed our mind. My uncle being who he is, sent one to our place anyway. Well Natasha named her Sunny and we loved her immediately. We kept her in our quonset as we wanted her as an outside cat. She was skittish at first being she was born outside and wasn't handled a whole ton. She warmed up to us right away and soon enough was coming to us as soon as we opened the door. She was real sweet. We had her locked up for a couple of weeks until we were comfortable she knew where home was. She stuck close to her stomping grounds and started to come closer to the house around the long weekend. We left for the long weekend and had someone staying at our place. We came home to learn the Sunny had an accident with a vehicle and did not come out on top. RIP Sunny...you were a sweet kitten!

Daddy and His Girls

A daddy and his girls picture update. This was taken the last time Adam left for work.

Frogs

There are so many frogs out here. We filled up a pool and starting getting frogs for the girls. Natasha would pick them up out of the pool but wasn't quite up for out of the grass. She can no catch the frogs from the grass, and Ashley will pick them up (though not delicately). For a couple of days the girls were totally fasinated but now...its just frogs.

Adjusting

I am the first to tell people that I don't like spiders. Spiders is pretty much the only thing that really gives me the "willies." Since being at the acreage I think I have been handling myself, well. I will admit that any spider inside my house will meet with my foot but I have left all spiders outside, alone. Now for me to take pictures of a spider is a really HUGE step as before I could not even look at a picture. Anyway despite my dislike of them, they are quite fasinating and below are pictures I tool on our second night here. A dragonfly got caught in a net, and the spider quickly came down and starting wrapping it. Once finished it pulled the meal up its web...pretty neat.

The Move

Well a month after our move I am updating my blog with the move day. It was hectic! First there was a hick up with the Uhaul truck the day before and then just the task of loading the house and cleaning. The pictures below are of my two moving buddies, my Dad and Uncle Russell, the last load of cargo in my dad's truck, and the last picture of our old house. I thought I would be more emotional about leaving it as it was my first house BUT I think with the amount of moving I did as a child it didn't seem like that big of a deal.

I'm Back

After a month of no internet at home....I am back, up and running. I will update my blog over the next couple of days. Nice to be connected again and I can't wait to reconnect with some of my cyber "friends".