Fun day at the pool and outside!

What a fun day!! Clara, Jacob and I went to target to get groceries and then headed back to Chrissy's. Once there we headed to the pool for a few hours. It was loads of fun! 

Jacob, me and Clara

Me and my boys!

He cracks me up! 

Silly Sophie!

Soaking up the sun! Clara Mae

Then Chris and I put Sophie's bunk beds together. Now for an evening of grilling good food and having a few beverages! 

Last days of vacation

IOur trip seemed so long yet so fast. Wish we could have just stayed the whole summer!!

It's been hard coming home. Last day I smashed my finger in the wood splitter. Imagine a your finger between steel and a piece of wood and a bazillion pounds of pressure. Yup. You guessed it not pretty. Spent a few hours in the ER the night I flew home. Blessed with an amazing neighbor who watched the boys. ER was lonely. Hate doing that type of stuff alone. Oh well. I'm a single

Mom.  I need to get use to doing it alone. 

Verdict. Finger is broken. Go to the dr on wed to have it x rayed again to see if surgery is needed to remove the bone fragment. Pray I don't need surgery.

Here are some pictures of the final days. 

Clearly the boys did better than thier mama. 

My mom gave me my grandmothers mothers ring.... 

Love my Lakin

I finished a book on vacation!

Robert Ludlum's "the Janus reprisal" was an amazing book!!!! 

Good read...

Thursday - at Chrissy's

We have arrived here! Spending the weekend here them back to the farm for our last days. Just 6 days of vacation left...

We picked up planes at Clearwater. While I got a Carmel Apple. I think Robert has influenced them a little. They both chose navy planes! 

Loves these boys! 

wednesday - Our Drive home

We headed home today.  Thankful for my time in Canada.  Hoping that I won't have to miss anymore years.  Our drive home was uneventful.  Made it to Sarahs in decent time.  The kids wasted no time in hitting the outside!  Jacob in the pig pen and Jackson side by side with Adam and bird hunting..

Canada day 3

What a great day!!! The weather was beautiful and the day started off great! We headed to 2 birch and wouldn't you know jackson landed a walleye. Then dad hooked a northern!

Next we got tourist. Right away in the slot I caught a nice 18 inch.  Then dad nailed another good one that we there back.  Then back in a little nook dad landed a 27inch walleye! 

With a few nice northern here and there we had a great day of fishing.

A funny for the day:

Trying to get in the boat by grabbing dad's hand I slightly fell in! So I had a wet arm and butt! 

Also mom lost her hat.... Grandpa lost his hat.... 

Jackson broke the coffee pot...

We showed 2 waterfalls to jackson and our old camps. At the high rock someone had made a great cook camp. 

We saw bear camp and eclipse camp

Animal count:

3 pelicans

Several loons

Garder snake

Mallard

We went back to burnt island and got a few picture of our loon on her nest. 

Jackson highlight if the day:

All the fish I caught today.  Saw 3 follows and several others. Grandpa breaking his pole.

Mama:  I am blessed.  Grateful to be sharing these moments with Jackson on his "right of passage" so to speak...

Canada day 2

We started the day at 6:30 am. Had breakfast and got the boat ready for the day. Slightly chilly. First we went to the creek. No luck...kept fishing... Moved to a new spot... Then another. The another no fish :-( finely at 4ish we headed to double birch. Dad got snagged and as I was realing in... Bam caught a walleye!!! Then put the poles back down... Then got on another walleye. As it was swirling in the water and grandpa was ready to get it... It was gone... Both him and I saw it.. Bummer... We still needed dinner.

Then we kept fishing the hot spot... Dad got a few bites and lost many minnows.  We were about ready to head in when bam I had another fish on the line. It was a snake but we would take it. It meant supper!

Did I mention it rained most of the day??? Well it did and jackson was a good sport for most of it.  I feel very blessed to be here.  My dad made it all possible.  He took just us.  He didn't have to.  But wanted to make sure we could go.  Jackson really did amazing for the chilly weather.  I half expected him to complain all day.  But only at bed.  Missing his brother..  LOL

Came home and cooked up the food!!! Drool....

Jackson's best part of the day:

Watching mom get 2 fish. Going speeding bullet. Lunch on the shore. Havin pop and having a brownie! Eating walleye. 

Animal sittings: 

Flock of pelicans

Loon

Eagle

Loon eggs!!!! Found the nest!