Father's Day

On Father's Day we went to Bronte Creek Provincial Park to have a picnic with Carrie's parents. we arrived a bit early and had a look around at the animals.

chickens,

cows

we even saw a farmer with a pig.

Ev was trapped in her play pen because she is getting way to fast to keep up with.

Once Carrie's parents arrived we had lunch then went for another walk were we saw

some flowers

And Max got to ride

and feed the cows.

We stopped for a quick photo op of Carrie's parents,

the kids with "Nanny and Poppy" and

one of Me with Max and Ev

It was a fantastic day out. Couldn't ask for much more on Father's Day.

stuff

just some random photos to put up here.

fist off is a pic of Max running through the fluff from the trees at the beach. I'm not sure what tree this stuff comes from but it's there every summer and it looks like it's snowing.

Max in the fluff

next up is a picture of the kids new (used) tricycle

and the last one is a pic of the four of us going down a slide.

hair cut

this is a quick one. okay so all my posts are quick ones.

cut Max's hair.

before

after

he looks like a different person by just cutting his hair. It took a while to talk him into cutting his hair. asked him every day for about a week if he wanted his hair cut, finally one day he said okay so chop chop no more locks.

lumberjack

A few weeks ago we went down to visit Carrie's parents and I ended up getting coned into manual labour. :) There were a few trees in the back yard that needed to come down.

Kirk brought along a chainsaw, but half way through the first tree it stopped working. So we started using the little pruning saws that were on hand. They didn't work at all. So we went searching for something that would work. I found a mostly sharp ax and we gave that a go.

Dad (Carrie's Dad) chopping the tree

The ax was a bit slow going so I searched around a bit more and found a huge saw. And after MacGyvering a second handle for it, we gave that a go.

First Dad and I tried.

Then Kirk and I tried.

In the end, the saw, as cool as it was, just didn't work for us. So we went back to chopping with the ax and pulling on the tree with a rope to try to get it down.

While these to guys pulled,

I chopped.

And eventually we did get the trees down.

Victory at last.