Pregnancy Photos

While at Canim Lake a spontaneous pregnancy photo session took place. I'm still waiting for Laura's photos (she was the one taking most of the pics) but I'll post a few of Angie's here to give you a look at my 7.5 month belly. I'll post more of Laura's later...

Girl's Escape to Canim Lake

I and three friends that I had originally made in Quesnel (Angie, Laura, and Tracy) spent last weekend at Canim Lake which is 45 minutes west of 100 Mile House. We rented a private cabin on the lake for 3 nights during which we ate continuously (Thai, Italian, Mexican, plus lots of chocolate and not-so-good for us snacks), went for walks, slept until-wait for it-9AM, and watched movies, read trashy magazines and talked-talked-talked...it was unbelievable! So relaxing. The girls spent one afternoon painting my prego belly like a bowl of fruit, a creative process that is fast becoming a tradition (Angie had her belly painted as a Pumpkin with Josh and an Easter Egg with Isaiah).

Matt did a fabulous job on his own with Jasmine for 4 days, they visited the water park, went to friends for dinner, went for walks, visited Huble Homestead for a drum exhibit, and had some otherwise serious bonding time on a shared Father's Day weekend.

Time with friends

Angie and Robin, our friends from Quesnel, came to visit for a night last week with their sons Joshie (3) and Isaiah (1). We enjoyed a picnic in Fort George park with them and Angie's dad. Also, Laurie and Chris (who worked for McCall Environmental at one point) brought their new little one Ella (3 months) to visit from Burns Lake. Jasmine LOVED having a baby around and, apart from throwing a small piece of toast at her during lunch, did a great job interacting with such a small baby. This is promising for our future...

Ella, another friend of Jasmine's from playgroup and daughter of our friends Kristi and Parker, also came with her parents for dinner last Saturday (picture of Ella and Jasmine on the swing set). There was constant refereeing of two, two-year olds but we had a great time together...not much adult conversation but good food.

Weekend Camping at McLeod Lake

What a scorching weekend it has been!

Beautiful time at the lake with Matt and Jasmine, my brother Dave and his girlfriend Andrea. The bugs were insanely bad (check out the sky in the photo of Jasmine sitting on the boat-it is full of bugs) but the lake was equally insanely gorgeous. Jasmine woke up at 5:30am the first morning but let us sleep in this morning until 8am thank god. She has been doing awesome on her potty the last week with lots of dry diapers morning and during the day (thus the potty photo of her proudly peeing in the bush). I wasn't too uncomfortable sleeping etc. but didn't like having to get up and out of the tent to use the bathroom during the night. Matt didn't catch any fish but was able to practise his fly-fishing skills with his new rod.