Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Software meets Poolwear....

So......you show a girl where to find free photo-editing software (Thanks Cam!!) and turn her loose. They were pretty cool SOTC (they're my kids, how could they not be fab?) but it's heap loads of fun 'doctoring' them.


These are some lovelies from one of our afternoons at the pool - we're greedily grabbing every summery sort of day seeing as how we haven't had too many and it's already August!!

I had some tips from photo-guru Beth but in order to 'shoot up' I would hav
e had to lie down on wet concrete....it seems I am not so dedicated to the photographic arts as she is.....









Ten gold stars to whoever spots the 'wardrobe malfunction'....twenty if you swear never to point it out to her when she's fifteen...*grin*

When the sun doesn't shine....

Here's what we're doing.....

Sebastian masters his giant dinosaur floor puzzle!! (WOO-HOO!!!) This kid is a Master!
Savannah working on the Sims game....she's building an empire and tearing it down....one computer-simulated character at a time.......learning some more reading words and some simple math while she's at it....

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Goodies from the Big Apple....


Souvenirs from Aunty B's trip to New York City.....

The turtle carrying the taxi came from RBG.....

To the Gardens....


Waiting for the bus....

Amazingly, after cancelling once due to the rain, we were finally off for an afternoon at the Royal Botanical Gardens. We'd been gifted with a family pass so are able to go often...for FREE!!
"Family pass" means two adults and any number of children under 18...so Aunty S, Cousin's M and H joined us for the trip....

A hike through the woods...a clamber on the root system....

We spotted a frog on a lily pad....you'll have to squint...it was as far as my zoom would go....
After being chased by geese we returned from the trail and had our picnic in the Hendrie Garden before setting off for a tour of the Earth Art exhibition and a scavenger hunt....
Sebastian tried repeatedly to get the dogs to sit up but......:)
We also got some really cool bug identifier sheets so now we know the names of our local creepie crawlies....

Random Garden Snaps


The sun came out last week, so I ran outside and took some pictures....



Friendship Festival 2009

At long last...co-operation...actually, I abandoned the desktop and moved to the laptop -- coincidence?Not sure...I won't hold it against the Olde Dinosaur though...

So: Fort Erie Friendship Festival...July 4th weekend....

This yearly trip is in grave danger of looking exactly the same every year -- only the kids are getting bigger...so there aren't as many pics because they were getting rather boring...

Above, Sebastian - caged -- as he waits in line for some climby-thingy. The good part about this year is that they offered a stamp-your-hand option which meant all-you-can-ride rather than having to buy the tickets...which was awful because then we had to ration them out. Also good about this year..the kids were able to go on a lot more by themselves. The only rides they didn't do were the ones where they didn't meet the height requirement...which wasn't many.



My darlings strapping themselves into the Buckets of Spinning Death...aka the Ferris Wheel. I spent most of the afternoon either grinning or petrified for the safety of my offspring. It seems all of my courage has leached into them...they are fearless and I'm a scaredy-pants.


Back to Grandma's for a barbecue and a campfire. Traditional roasting - but not eating - of marshmallows....they're also fearless around the fire..cavorting around it like good little pagan-children while mother and grandmother dove in repeatedly to snatch them away from certain charring.....well, it looked like that anyway....:)

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Uploading photos bites....

I don't know if it's just Blogger being annoyingly slow...or Ye Olde Desktop growing weary or a combination of both...but I choose NOT to sit around waiting for it to make up their collective minds as to whether to upload my photos. I have tried for two days now, at various times of the day....

When they've reached an agreement.....I'll be back...in the meantime, we are basking in the Joy of summer...such as it is around these parts, weather-wise.