Happy 28th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Colossians 3:14

A Nature Walk and Tea On The Lawn

Every summer in our area during July and August we have tea on the lawn Wednesday and Saturday at a local conservation area. See the post I did about one here. Yesterday Mom was doing the tea with another lady so I thought I could go on a nice walk with Nana on one of the trails and then have tea after! What a lovely day for a walk...

A picture taken from the bridge




Nana

We took the "blue" trail

which was about a 45 minute walk...

which also took us through a hay field

The sign that they have up in the summer telling folks about the teas

Nana and I drinking our tea

A group of other ladies enjoying their tea

The view from our seats

It was great to be able to spend the afternoon with you Nana! We will have to go out walking together sometime soon.

Love, Erin

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

- Blessed Mother Teresa

"The Taming Of The Shrew"

The play went great! It was so much fun and we all had a great time. Lots of laughs. My role went very well and I could not believe how much I enjoyed it. A good experience. It was very good to be able to learn from the experienced actors and actresses. I will hopefully be getting pictures from people in the next few weeks and will post when I get some.

Caroline, Tannis, Louise and her sister Rosie all came. Nana and Papa came too. It was so nice to see you all! Caroline and Scott were playing at Caroline's church on Saturday before the play and then they played at our Mass Sunday morning. It was a special blessing. Caroline spent the night on Saturday. We had a great time together.

I hope you all have a blessed week...

My Summer Days...

The weather has changed and it looks like we are going to have a nice cooler weekend.


Thursday was our last drama practice when we took apart some scenes that we found needed work from the rehearsal. Saturday is the big day! Show time :)



On Wednesday I went with Caroline to see a movie in the city and then spent the night at her house. We had a really fun time. Nice to see you Caroline! Caroline, Tannis (her Mom) and Louise (maybe her sister Rosie) are all coming for the drama performance :)


Today was spent doing some cleaning around the house and Mom and I giving my room a good cleaning. Also getting ready for tomorrow and making sure my drama lines are just right. Scott also is cleaning out the chicken coop today - a very kind gesture.


Have a wonderful weekend everyone and I will be back with a drama post (Lord willing)!!!

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Philippians 4.13

Hope you all had a great long weekend if you are fellow Canadians!

Scott and I were hired to be servers at a wedding reception on Saturday night. We were there from 3:00 pm-12:00 am. It was really fun to be part of the behind the scenes of a wedding and great experience :). The mother of the bride was such a nice lady to work for - very generous. We came in for about five hours to help with clean-up after church on Sunday. Then we came home and went right over to Nana's and Papa's house for a nice BBQ dinner.

Scott and I before heading out on the Saturday afternoon


I made a pan of rice krispie squares yesterday :)

Last night good friends had us over for a nice BBQ at their house. We had the camera with us but only took one picture! Here is Seth, Joel and Scott. They have all played music together and all really love music so they never run out of things to talk about... I have to leave when the talk gets to technical :). Seth and I had fun playing a l o n g Chess game... I was nice and let him win. Their daughter Emily is going to be my piano teacher this year.

It was great to see all of you!

Tonight is the dress rehearsal of "The Taming Of The Shrew". Hopefully all goes well!

Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

Psalm 37.5

Have a great week.

-Erin

A Visit With Louise

Louise and I had a very pleasant visit the last couple of days. It was great to see you Louise! The day that Louise came over I had a drama club meeting so she came along to watch. I got what I needed that night to finish my costume. Louise and I had fun later at home trying it on each other :)

Louise in the dress

Trying on the costume

We went to pick Louise up and on the way home Mom stopped to get some vegetables at a farm along the highway. This was a plant that was growing next to where they were selling the vegetables. Note the height!

Louise and I spent yesterday sleeping in... :) going for a walk, making a few lemon loaves (recipe will be posted soon on my recipe blog), playing some monopoly and going to the beach.

It was great to see you Louise!

Love, Erin

My Day

Mom and two of her dear friends went out today for some "lady/mother" time. They had a great time together.

It was great to see you ladies! -Sally

I did some cleaning today while Mom was out :) I was vacuuming and then thought... why not scrub our main room floor? So I did and it looks great - nice and shiny! Mom was very happy (and you know when Mom is happy, everyone is happy!)

The baby birds I told you about flew away this morning. They were so big that they were almost falling out of their nest! I will miss them... not their mess though :(

Louise is coming for a visit and overnight tomorrow. We have not seen each other much since my birthday so I am really looking forward to her coming.

I hope you are all having a nice week.

-Erin

A Weekend Away Part #1

This weekend our whole family went to Toronto for a little family time and also to attend the wedding anniversary party of some long time friends of ours. We took two cars down so we had a "convoy" so to speak.

Dad took us to a hotel that he stays at sometimes when he does travelling for work. It was a nice spot! There was a large pool and water slide, very fun! I did not go down the water slide but Scott did. He is much braver then I...

Shawn driving

Scott riding

Mom and Dad ahead of us... they drove by themselves :)

Mom

The girls

Swimming

The moon on the way home

Thanks Mom and Dad for the fun filled weekend! It was great to be able to have some family time.

The party post is below...

A Weekend Away Part #2 - The Anniversary Party

We were blessed to be able to attend the Surprise Wedding Anniversary of a couple that our family have known for over 22 years. It was a very fun party with about 60 people in attendance. The kids did a great job putting the party together, everything was so nice and enjoyable.

The surprised...

couple!

The two Dad's chatting

A cute little girl named Eva and the family dog Wellington

Eva having her first taste of Coke... she really liked it

Shawn and Wellington

Shawn socializing

Scott and Wellington

There was the most ADORABLE twin sisters at the party - here is Scott holding Ellie :)

Rebecca and I with Ellie

Our Friends that we have always called Aunt and Uncle

Happy 30th Anniversary! It was great to see all of you again.

God Bless,

Clare, Sally, Shawn, Scott and Erin