Last few weeks of August

Eli's last soccer tournament.

He was so excited to wear his England goalie shirt! This is before the game during practice.

Immy was clearly thrilled by it all ;-)

Coming off after being in goal for first half :-)

Second half...

End of game with coach daddy!

Showing off his trophy!

 Immy and Maia (our neighbour) at Eli's last game of the season. 

Immy asked me to take a photo of her 'posing' then jumped up on the table and lay down. I'm so in trouble when she's older!

 Showing her new gymnastics leotard!

Eli in his usual spot surrounded by lego!

 I asked Immy to smile and this is the series of poses I got...

 We were in value village last week and the kids found this puppet theatre! We 'had' to have it! It's had lots of use already!

 We live about 40 minutes out of Toronto and there is a train from here that runs into the city that Eli calls the communiter train (commuter!) it's a double decker train and they have asked to go on it since we moved here however it usually only runs at 'commuter hours' so it's never been an option. However during summer they run some weekend trains so we surprised the kids with a trip into the city last weekend on the train. They were sooo excited!

This is in the car on the way to the station

Waiting for the train. Immy found some wild flowers to pick of course!

Here comes the train!

When we got there we went to the waterfront and had some lunch, rented some paddle boats and went for a walk before heading back to the train again!

My two goofs waiting for the train home!

Ready to go out...

"Mummy take a photo of me all ready to go to Caitlin's house".

She wouldn't straighten her arm for fear of the jewels dropping off! By the time we actually got to Caitlin's house they were all over the floor of the car anyways! Oh and this was the pose... I guess smiling is not cool now that she's 4?!!

Weekend at the cottage!

In no particular order because like always I am too lazy to back thru and make them make sense!

My lovely daddy getting ready to set sail...

And he's off!

We spent most of our time in the water... 

Fishing (yes that's a butterfly net!) off the dock

Marshmallow time!

Mum's idea of a smore - chocolate- marshmallow - chocolate. Wonder where I get my choc cravings from lol!!

Hammock was a little on the low side!

Daddy, ELi and Immy out for a paddle

Imogen's 4th birthday presents

Belle dress!

Roller skates and new t-shirt

Dad, David and Eli went for a canoe ride across the lake...

Although the water looks quite calm there were a few jet ski's, boats pulling tubes at crazy speeds and it was also quite windy. Before they knew what had happened a large wave had capsized them in the middle of the lake.  No, mum and I did not sit on the dock laughing and taking photos...(once I knew my little boy was safe of course!)

A bunch of kind people (same ones that were making all the waves?!) came to their rescue and gave them a ride back to our dock. Eli did great, he was so calm and I am so thankful that he is a great swimmer (and was wearing his life jacket) as it wasn't nearly as traumatic for him as it could have been. 

Playing in the lake later on. 

The 'Oldies' taking it all in!

Dad 'thinking' about getting in to the lake for about a half hour before he actually took the plunge! He went back an forth on the dock attempting to jump until he finally carefully stepped down the ladder!!

My munchkin having fun! The lake had a massive drop off only half a meter from the shore - it was so deep (I couldn't see/touch the bottom) that I made them both wear lifejackets all the time. 

Daddy and Eli

Birthday girl photos!

Papa and Eli playing horseshoes

Spot us below?!!

All in all a fantastic relaxing weekend! Wish we could do it more often but with all of our family!!