Random going on's

He's a tooth down

He was so happy to be holding his first lost tooth.

He quickly put it in a little bag and carried

it around until bedtime and then he tucked it

safely under his pillow.

 These two are really starting to play together now

and it melts my heart.

What?

Is there something on my face?

Fall swing time

Smiles all around.

The babysitter is on duty.

No need to worry - all is safe.

Cousin Fun

Kids in general bring a huge smile to my face....on most occasions, but watching Nathan and Miles play with their cousins was simply awesome.  Cousins are just great.  I've read lots of little post on Facebook about how cousins are your first real friends and I think it's true.  

Cousins Rock....and play and play and play.

We had fun, lots of fun.

First Stop:  Calgary Corn Maze

Next Stop:  Thanksgiving Dinner at the cousins house - Weeeeeeeeee

M and N - 5 weeks apart - the future of cousin trouble.

We even had some Super Hero's appear at Thanksgiving ; )

Then we hit the road.  

Next Stop:  Edmonton

Handsome T and Miles - not his best picture. 

He might get after me in the future about this.

Sorry dear, your always cute ; )

These two always have

the best time.

This right here folks might be the highlight of 

all Alberta to Nathan.

He calls it the spinning tree,

and it's what dreams are made of.

Tell me this isn't cute.

I tried my best to get a great shot for Grandma

5 boys....it's a good as it's gonna get.

Two boys with Six boy cousins.

We had fun.

And I am sure there is years of fun yet to be had.

I can't wait to watch them all grow up together.

Cousins Rock.

Making memories in Alberta

We are lucky to have family and friends on the West coast of Canada that we are visit and play tourist in their beautiful backyards.

With brothers, sisters, cousins and friends scattered across the province we had a wonderful week of catching up and making new memories.

Miles was not a huge fan of the 5.5 hr flight to get there and he let everyone on the plane know it.  Some lovely ladies offered suggestions and empathetic glances and there was one "man" who dared to dart me dirty looks every so often.  Karma will catch up to him I'm sure.

Nathan is 6 now and really starting to appreciate the beauty of nature.  He said "Wow" more than once when he looked at the mountains and also when he saw all the city lights in Calgary.  He thought it was awesome that the Calgary tower was purple one night when we drove by and he was equally impressed when it was orange on Thanksgiving.

We were able to spend time with all our siblings and Nathan played for hours and hours with his cousins.  It was awesome.

We were also able to spend time with friends that we met while we all lived in the North.  The North is a really special place and we all truly appreciate our memories from that time in our lives.  It is always fun to reflect back and recognise how quickly life can change.

After our flight out I was expecting that the flight home might not be a great experience, but it really wasn't so bad.  Nathan has always been a rock star traveller and he still is.  Miles did much better on the way home which I was very thankful for, as I am sure everyone on the plane was.

Alberta is a beautiful place and I am grateful our family was able to spend a week there to take in some of it's splendor.

Out for a walk in Canmore

Hiking around Johnson Lake in Canmore

You can almost hear him squeal in this picture

 Never too big for a little toss

 Swinging fun

Tuckered out in Banff

I love this photo.

Fall is in the air

Our days of nice weather are numbered so when we have a nice one we are trying our best to make it count.

Sunday was one of those days that we knew we had to make count.

Nathan wants a pet.  We have two dogs and two dogs is plenty.  

Thankfully he's content with Emily right now.  Emily is a caterpillar.

We'll stick with Emily for as long as we can.

We also went apple picking and a wagon ride.  Fun times in the country.

Throwback Thursday

Since I went years without updating this blog I figure Thursday is a good day to play catch up.  

A lot has happened over the last couple of years so I am looking forward to reliving all the great moments.

I left off just after Easter in 2012 - Yikes, that is a lot catching up - but here we go.

We knew we would be moving back to Nova Scotia in the Summer of 2012.  When you do not know where you are going to be moving, a relatively small province can become very large.  We could have ended up anywhere between Yarmouth and Cape Breton.  

I remember everyone was getting their posting notices and we were still waiting.  Everyday I would wake up and wonder if today would be the day that I'd know where we would be living.  I was searching out all the houses for sale and daydreaming about where we might live.

The day finally came and it was great!  R was posted to a town in NS that we had on our top five list.  On top of that the job R got was one he considered his dream job.  We were thrilled, our families were thrilled and then we were off for our house hunting trip.

We had one week to look at houses and buy a house.  No pressure.

We left snow and arrived to NS just in time to help Dad fence in Moms garden.  He had a little help in 2012.   He didn't realize just how familiar N was on a quad.  He left the key in the quad to carry on with enclosing the garden.  N started it up and was ready to roll.  We all moved pretty quick and everything was fine but it was pretty funny.

Flying back to Paulatuk.

This was out the window of the plane

passing by Norman Wells

Post card perfect 

I don't think many gardens were being enclosed there.

 We bought a house!

This house

Back in Paulatuk.

Snowsuits

Quad

Off to the River

What I'd give to do that again.....

 Geese hunting season

These were pretty impressive in the decoy department.

Hot chocolate all around

As well as our travel treat, granola bars and

Crispy Mini's 

Operation clear out the barge room.

We had no issues getting to the River

Getting home, was an issue.

This quad was pushed all the way up

And the other two were as well after driving around for 

half an hour trying to find an alternate route.

I love this sweet picture.

Nathan, puppy, Ipad, that view.

This was a perfect moment for him.