My flowering crab apple tree is at it’s peak and so here are a few pictures because by this time next week it will be done and the trees will be green.
I LOVE LOVE weekends that are warm and we can enjoy eating outside ❤
It’s Peak
Category: Family
Brace Face 😁
It’s Friday!!! Yay!!! It’s the May long weekend and it’s also a pretty important day in our family!
Someone who has been wanting straight teeth and a beautiful smile for a long time FINALLY, yes FINALLY decided to just do it!
My sweet husband is now a brace face!!! lol Just teasing 😀
You’re never to old. It’s gonna be a fun year or so…
James, speaking from experience told his Dad steak is one of the hardest things to eat with braces, and just when we are heading in to BBQ season. Good thing we enjoyed your favourite delicious steak one last time til braces come off!
Green side Up!
Today the sod came for the backyard project! This is the the very best way to grow a lawn. It’s a lot of work to get it ready BUT once that is done, you just call the people at Tasbow Sod Farm in the Valley, tell them how much you need, and they deliver (right to your door) fresh, healthy green sod.
It’s more work to lay it but then you just water and let it do it’s thing. And….Voila! Beautiful green lawn.
Gotta get at it, there’s lots of new green ready to lay.
‘Twas the night before sod arrived…
Laying sod…
Ahhh…mostly done. Just a few pieces to cover some stumps and to fix the gardens up. It was a great day!!!
A new kind of fun
Anyone who has been reading my blog for any time knows I love adventure and I love to explore. Unfortunately time & money these days doesn’t allow as much travel as I like so I have been looking at new ways to incorporate some extra fun in our walks and hikes around here.
GEOCACHING
Have you heard of it? What is it?
I have heard about geocaching for a long time and wanted to give it a try. My youngest son had his first go at it 3 weeks ago and since then I have really been wanting to get out and do it. So last night we did. I had my first introduction to geocaching.
…so what is Geocaching? Here is the definition from Wikipedia.
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world.
A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook (with a pen or pencil). The geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, such as toys or trinkets, usually of more sentimental worth than financial. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.
Sounds like fun, right? That’s what I thought and so this summer I want to do more of it as we are out and about.
Last night we loaded the app on our phone and set up a user name. The app shows caches in your aerator wherever. I just have the basic version for now until I learn more. The basic version gives you quite a few spots but also shows the premium ones in grey ( A LOT MORE) You click on the one you want to find, it gives you basic clues and then you walk or hike to find it. We did some easy ones in our neighbourhood last night just to see how it worked. You log in and when you find it, you can add comments and/or a picture and it sets a marker that you found it. Pretty cool!
Here are a few pics from last night. We are really hoping to get out and do some more geocaching really soon.
Geocaching…I think it’s the perfect activity to get you out exploring!!
Dearest Mother
I am blessed beyond measure to have two wonderful Mothers. My Mother and my Mother-in-Law. Both are remarkable women and I have learned much from them. And… and as of 3 weeks ago, I am officially a Mother-in-Law. I love my new daughter very much and happy she is my son’s choice for a wife.
Today is the special day we set aside each year and we celebrate Mother’s.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Feeling Nostalgic
I had a moment today….
Typical Spring Saturday…Yard Sale time!!! and my parents were having one today so we popped in just to show our support. Also, we had a couple boxes of things left over from our yard sale last year so we thought we would stay a few hours and see if things would sell.
Dad & Mom are feeling the need to declutter and get rid of stuff. Their reason…”Who knows how long we can stay in this big home and look after things… the time will come we have to move to an apartment” Sounds good to me! They’re having fun going through old things and deciding what they want/can keep and getting rid of the rest. A great Spring project for them.
One of the things they are selling is an old 8track player and 8tracks. Do you remember these? I sure do!!! I remember listening to them all the time as a kid. I started looking through a box of 8tracks….that’s when the nostalgia hit!!! It took me right back to 1975 to when we moved from Ontario back to Nova Scotia. I was just a kid. To pass time in the car on that longggggggg drive, Dad would play the 8tracks and we would all sing to the top of our lungs! Some of my favourites…Tammy Wynette and George Jones, Charlie Pride…oh my…and truth be told, I’ll bet if I played them today I would still be able to sing right along with it!!! Haha, good times, great memories!
It was a fun morning and we made a bit of cash and are down to 1 box.
Have a great weekend!
Prayers for Fort McMurray
Spring and Summer season can bring wild fires in the West Coast of Canada. And unfortunately it has started this year with a devastating fire in Fort McMurray
The only bright spot in the wildfire that has caused the entire Alberta community to evacuate is that no injuries or fatalities have been reported so far. The fire raging in the Fort McMurray area forced officials to evacuate 60,000 inhabitants.
Many Maritimers have called Fort McMurray home ( or second home) for a number of years as many have gone there to work in the oil sands. There are many friends and family from Nova Scotia that are dealing with this devastation… PLEASE PRAY!!!!
Tonight …we dance (and EAT cake)
When you have a destination wedding you realize that not all the special people in your life will be there. It’s just not possible. That is why today Andrew & Kristina will celebrate their life as husband & wife with more of the people that are special to them. Tonight is a chance to mingle and tonight we dance!
It’s Celebration time!
And dance we did! It was a privilege to dance with my boy at his wedding!
It was a wonderful evening with family and friends, some we haven’t seen for awhile.
I was so busy I didn’t take a lot but here are a few pics…
Some just for fun…
And just a peak from the ones done by their photographers. Belle Visage ( I may add a few at a later time when they get their photos back)
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Congratulations Andrew & Kristina! ❤
Wedding Day~April 16, 2016 DESTINATION~ Meliá Las Dunas -Cayo Santa Maria, CUBA
What could be more romantic than a tropical wedding?
That is exactly what our son and his fiancé chose for their special day and it was spectacular.
The sky, the water, the sun and the tropical coral and turquoise colors they chose…made for the most gorgeous of pictures.
Here are some of my favourites!
These are just a few pics capturing the wonderful day!
Congratulations Andrew & Kristina ❤
Cuba Vacation PART ~1
David & I love to travel. We love to travel South in the Winter to escape the cold. Believe it or not this is our very first time to stay at a resort for an entire week!
Our choice Winter getaway is cruising! This year, however,we are in Cuba. We are here for the wedding and it’s also a great way to see if we like all inclusive resort vacations. We flew into Santa Clara Airport and then took a bus to the resort. ( Our very own Wedding Group bus)
Just off Cuba’s north coast is the inviting resort destination of Cayo Santa Maria. With its white sand beaches, azure waters, and range of resorts, a vacation here is full of sunshine and relaxation. The area is known for its beaches, and has become famous for tourists that flock to its shores to step away from reality and enjoy the Cuban hospitality, heat, and landscape.
Cayo Santa Maria is an island on the north of Cuba in the Jardines del Rey archipelago, connected to mainland Cuba by a 48-kilometer causeway. With more than 10-kilometers of pristine, white sand beaches lapped by crystal clear blue waters. Flights from Canada to Cayo Santa Maria arrive at the Santa Clara airport and then take a bus transfer approximately 1.5 hours from Cayo Santa Maria to the resort district on the island and across the causeway from mainland Cuba. Due to Cayo Santa Maria’s location, on an island just off of the mainland north coast of Cuba, the area is known for its resort community, but little else beyond the beach and poolside activities.
So…What to do a whole week in one place?
Well seeing as we were there for the wedding, a bit of time was spent making sure everything was ready for Saturday and then it was beach time, eating, pool time, eating, eating, entertainment, coffee and check mail, eating, and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of walking. Melia las Dunas resort is large and so we spent a lot of time all week walking just getting to places.
We had so much fun…
Tomorrow see what else we did!
Just An East Coast Girl 