Summertime - Part One

We are back from our holidays and I've finally sat down to try and get the blog caught up. I'll do it in parts because we've been busy and have taken a tonne of pictures. We have kept trying to do the 100 Things To Do This Summer. Here are a few of those things - mostly from the end of June and first week of July.

Play - Doh

Planting Flowers

Puzzles

I wasn't sure what to do for "Making Shirts". I got looking around and found transfer sheets that you can print anything on and then iron on. Canada Day was approaching and I wanted shirts so that's what we ended up doing...

Slip 'n Slide

We finger painted, painted wit various brushes and then

we painted rocks and put them in our flower bed.

Some of Justin's family came down on Canada Day and the boys got to meet their youngest cousin Alexis. She belongs to Kenny and Jacquie. A real sweetie and we were all pretty taken with her. Caden LOVED to hold her and thought she was pretty great.

We spent a couple of hours at Canada Day at Wascana Park.

We watched the cannon firing and then walked around. There was a little petting zoo.

The first time the boys had Frozen Yogurt (except Liam - he doesn't like cold food so doesn't eat ice cream or freezies and now frozen yogurt - you can see him crawling off of his chair in this pic.)

Homemade Lemonaide - SO GOOD.

Flashcards. I sort of thought that this was a boring idea but I pulled them

out anyway and the kids really liked it actually

A treasure hunt. I decided to put it with a movie night and so the kids were all

bathed and in their pj's. The clues were all outside.

The treasure was....

treats....

a new movie...

and more treats...

Movie Time!!

Check back for pictures from our little holiday to Manitoba.

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