Jeremy picks up MORE girls..

My beach bum son just can't go to the beach without picking up girls...
This is 4 and a half year old Zoey and her friend.
They also befriended me,
although I have to admit, I was pretty uncomfortable
that they were so friendly with me...
They didn't know me at all, and they swam out to me,
and were jumping on me in the water,
and trying to swim out far to follow me...
I was thinking...I am ok...but what about the next stranger.....
Zoey was sure a cute little independant spirit though....

Watrous

This weekend we took off to Watrous..

Didn't plan it. Just went.
(trying to get our kids ready for a long road trip this summer...)
We had heard a lot about Watrous...
It is a town based around around the healing waters
of Lake Manitou...
The lake is 91% pure water, but has a specific gravity 10% higher than regular water due to a higher concentration of dissolved salts and minerals. The added density greatly enhances buoyancy and make it impossible for people to sink - even when motionless. Unless you leave earth's atmosphere, this is one of the few places in the world where you can experience the sensation of weightlessness.

What a weird feeling to not be able to sink..
apparently it is one of the few places in the world
where the water is like this, except for the Dead Sea....
(Leaves your skin and hair feeling pretty yucky though...)
Had to shower right after.




There is also a spa there, which makes use of the lakes healing properties,
but with the kids, we didn't check that out this trip...
The town itself is pretty cool too.



If we can afford it, that is where I think we will go for our anniversary next year.
However, for this year, we just kind of drove around, hung out,
and went to the beach.

Jeremy is a little young to swim,
so he didn't really get to enjoy floating in the water...
but I did..It was pretty cool.
I tried swimming, but gave up after a while,
and just floated on my back.




Gracie is really enjoying her time at the beach now...
but I think she came back with half of it in her diaper,
and the other half in her tummy...

oh oh....

Me " Jeremy, get over here...do you want a spanking?"
Jeremy " Yes....Bring it. "
Man...am I ever in trouble...

Gotta show off the new doo...

Here is another SEXY new haircut...
by Lauren Orthner...

(I have a friend who is always scandalized when I use that word,
so I do it on purpose..
What word is that you say??
SEXY...
It's great! :) )

Seriously...Thanks Lauren...
Great haircut as usual!
Can't go to anyone else now..
You have spoiled me..

Our Faith...

For those who were starting to think we had no faith..and we were telling lies..
We actually have put something on our Our Faith tab now...LOL!

Really...we do believe in something....
It may still need some touch ups...

Good morning....

Happy summer morning..
the kids are excited to be outside after so much
cool and rainy weather...
BTW..Gracie now says mom, dad, hi, yaa, and pretends to sneeze.... :)
What cuties...but I might be biased...

My daughter, Brandy just started her own blog...
Head over and check it out...
Give her some bloggy love!
it is..
Brilliance is in a Smile

Kitty taking it's own life in it's paws...

My Mother in Law is going to kill me...

but it isn't my fault this time...
really, it isn't!

Last night, when I was taking out the garbage...
I found a little "package" in the bin....
Apparently someone felt that his little life wasn't worth the effort,
and tossed him out with the trash...

My son of course was thrilled...and confused...
He had followed me into the yard,
and when I brought in kitty, and told him where I found it,
Jeremy say's "NO, mom, No kitty in the trash..."
by the time I called Kendal,
Jeremy was yelling in the background "Garbage daddy! Cat!!!"

I even drove to the SPCA,
but they are closed at 5 pm...
and I figured that by the time I was done paying for litter, food, ect...
and Jeremy was done fawning it,
We might just as well keep it.

Maybe it will do me a solid,
and take care of a mouse we think is still kicking around our house...

It seems in pretty good shape, aside from ear mites,
Drank some kitty milk, and lots of water,
but it did use the kitty litter.
We think it is about 8 weeks old.

It seems like a loveable little scamp,
which makes me even angrier at what people are capable of....
Jeremy is in L.O.V.E.
He petted it...quite carefully
till he got excited and chased kitty all over the house..
Kitty got smart, and finally hid under my bed.
Last night, I had it in a box in the bathroom,
and Jeremy snuck in, removed kitty from the box,
and brought it to me.
Cat mom...
(like I had asked for it...)
Gracie is also in love...
Today she made more progress trying to crawl to kitty
then any other day so far,
and she spent the whole morning squealing and laughing at it,
till she finally got frustrated with it running away when she tried to hug it,
and started crying...LOL!

so there you have it.
Not my fault.
I didn't even want a cat.
They find me. They know where I live now.
Maybe it will curtail Jeremy from continuing
to bug me for the dog he keeps asking for...

So...What should I name it??
(I thought Lucky, but Kendal didn't like it.)

Burrowing Owls..

Mac the Moose....

Yesterday we took another impromptu visit to Moosejaw...
We had actually been planning to go to the lake,
but the weather wasn't great...
so instead we went to the
Sask. Burrowing Owl Interpretive Center
It was fun and Jeremy enjoyed the owls,
and the snake
Gracie LOVED the horse in the field next door...
Jeremy is also probably going to be in the paper
because they were having their grand opening,
and Jeremy was cute,
so the photographer kept taking pics of him...

Jeremy petting a Bull snake...

a Burrowing Owl

George...(or Georgette...)
37 days old....

Jeremy's owls

Autumn kissing her owl...

Our day seemed a little cursed though...
Jeremy got REALLY mad at some little boy at the Owl center
because the boy pushed him..
When I asked Jeremy about it,
he got all red in the face (Just like daddy and grandpa..)
and spouted off more sentences at once then I have ever heard him use,
and finished it with "I don't want to talk about it..."
Then we realized we had forgotten Gracie's soother,
so we had to go buy another one...
Then it poured rain...
Oh...
and at Cresent park..
My husband threw some teens bike because the kids was riding it through
the wading pool around babies,
and had been asked to stop several times,
and got lippy...
(Honestly, it really wasn't as bad as it sounds...)
ok..well maybe it was...
Kendal seemed to enjoy it way too much....

At Cresent Park

uh...I think Jeremy enjoyed his ice cream.....

and then we went to the Chocolate Moose for ice cream...
and they only have a couple of tables..
so picture this.
I had a white shirt on.
There was a table full of people who you think would have been polite enough to move,
since they weren't eating...
instead of gawking at us
Kendal holding Gracie...
and me trying to look after Jeremy,
and the chocolate ice cream
I was BRILLIANT enough to get him...
(What was I thinking...)
so we had to try and feed Jeremy his ice cream
sitting on a bench..
by the end, Kendal was covered with chocolate ice cream...
and my white shirt wasn't white anymore...

Well...I guess every trip can't be perfect...
can it Mark??


We had fun anyways...coulda been worse...