Well good grief… a pair of very colour coordinate holidays that I did NOT blog yet! Anyway… enjoy!

Canada Day or July 1st… Red and White. A rather at home event this year as it rained, but we made do. 

We drove out to a Tim Hortons and enjoyed all sorts of yummy donuts.

Hung up our Canadian lawn decoration.

Had yummy lunch together including homemade Nanaimo bars.

And of course, poutine!

And of course took all sorts of photos of the whole family in their Canadian outfits.

July 4th was another at home whole family kind of thing for us this year. Ken was very busy with work this summer and on call. 

It was a sunnier day so we did manage some fun outside with bubbles.

A colour coordinated meal.

Apple swan by Gavin

BBQ food.

Sparklers.

Even squished in some tie dying!

And of course… MORE PHOTOS! 

And now for the overflow of colour coordinated fun….

Of course with two major holidays (ok in two different countries but major to US) within such proximity to each other there HAS TO BE overflow images… so sit back and enjoy!!!

Can you spot the dragonfly at Walker Sculpture Garden on Canada Day?

Just us Canadian Girls showing our pride

Lucky clover? Couldn’t find any with 4 leaves

O’ Canada!

Where Canada and the United State meet..

The cousins with all of their cousins (both sides)

Rocking the addition of blue

Gavin and Zander

My baby boy

Trinity and her friend

Glow Necklace!

Goof balls

Jeffrey!

Cows

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There is something about the Canadian Flag that the girls just LOVE colouring. Over and over and OVER again!

But we also did our Summertime School Goals. The twins are programming based and the two littles are reading based. I am hoping if we cannot accomplish them in the summer span of time we can AT LEAST make inroads on them.

And then for the BIG excitement… Uncle Sean is here for a short visit after doing a training session down in Minneapolis. The kids were over the moon and even Echo remembered Uncle Sean on sight!

He brought gifts…

And had a nap… it was just like being back up north. It did rather throw school out the window… willingly! Nothing like a Canadian guest to perk everyone up!

Saturday afternoon was a pre planned (before Sean’s trip) visit over to Chris and Renee’s house to play with the boys. They have a terrific backyard with a playset not unlike ours.

We had baby time…

Drinks for the adults…

And lovely retro toys brought out of the crawl space for the girls to share with Renee.

While the guys were bbqing we also had sparklers and some small fireworks to set off. Dinner was delicious and the kids were all sad to have to say good bye.

Sunday morning was an equally important engagement… we were expected to make it in time to watch Anthony play in part of his tournament. They played hard and won their match.

The kids had a blast playing with Aidan…

And we got some amazing action shots of one of our favourite soccer players! Anthony is playing even better this year. Training has paid off and it is amazing watching him run his hardest and play his best game after game!

Then home to spend the evening with Sean. The best of both worlds – outside fun and a friend to sit around at home and catch up with!!