July 12/13
Back to the Bleau family with boys in tow. So how do we start our time together as a family??? You got it – repeat performance at the splash park! Seriously whoever came up with these deserves a medal. We could LIVE at one!
Cups, boys and daddy and all… lots of splash and run and play and smiles… what a great way to celebrate being together again.
Oh and stopping to smell the flowers…
Then back to our home base and the chance to hang out with another family we have missed who are up temporarily visiting from California. The Davey family. It is the first time in years that we have all been together… 11 kids in total! Catherine and Trinity were instant buddies.
Although at first it was just the Davey 3 and our 5. After all, the Bleau 3 had their program at the swimming pool.
The next day it was the Reinsch-Johnsons and the Daveys at the splash park. With the wildfires in other areas of Alberta there was some smoke coverage but nothing too horrible. That did mean the splash park was empty of all but us though. Definitely a nice situation!
And then Sharon joined us after her lane swim.
Which meant that she and Ken banded together and drug me into the park and soaked me good. All in good fun of course.
And then for lunch… McDonald’s thanks to Jeff. And for the afternoon/evening… we got to watch the guys fix a kitchen faucet. It really DOES take 3 programmers to do so! From the dismantling, trip to the store and then to the final installation. But what a lovely faucet indeed!
Don’t forget supper around the table… 11 kids at one meal! It was so much fun!!! Our last chance to have all 3 families together for possibly years and years!
And then the evening free of men as they went to Spiderman. The night before as well, just us girls watching movies and hanging out. It was so much fun!
We even had the guys hamming it up for us after their showers and our girls in their first sleepover party!
It was so nice to be with old friends. I hope that one day we can do it again. But it will be quite a long time…