Sooooo I have about 200 pictures to weed through from yesterday! Lol! I LOVE a good photo post, and I think a lot of you guys do, too. They used to be a bit of an easy way out, but now, its SO hard to sift through and decide how many is too many, which were my favorites, etc. I love doing it, though 🙂 Yesterday was such a great day, and I’m so glad we have so many memories to look back on! I hope you enjoy them, too!
We drove to Waskesiu right after breakfast. We forgot to take a family van selfie like we usually try to do, but I snapped a couple of cute shots of the classy kids sitting closest to me in the van 🙂
Aaaaand some less cute pictures…
Ok, he’s still cute. Just a tad on the icky side.
We got to Waskesiu, bought our park pass and took a family bathroom break before heading to the beach!
We thought it was hilarious, lol! Hopefully no one is offended by this picture!
Our little lake town was SO much snowier than we expected! I had a suspicion that it would be a bit more wintery than home, considering how far north it is, and the wind coming off the water. Yet, the sun was out, and it was nice and warm! The lake itself was still fairly iced over, though in places it was obviously melted off with moving water. I saw far too many people walking on the ice for how warm it was!! The waves had pushed sand up to also look like waves, which was pretty cool, and something I hadn’t seen before.
There were quite a few drifts still in the shaded parts of the park, which limited where we could trek, but we rolled with it.
We found a useable path to the playground and thats pretty much where we stayed put!
The swings were a BIG deal, even when Ro took a spill off one 🙁 He bravely got right back on! Woot!
The seesaw was probably Laela’s favorite thing about the playground. I’m not using all of the pictures I have, obviously, but our kids would often just wander over to the teeter totter and wait patiently for someone to join them. They made all kinds of new friends!
Dekker is less inclined to stop and pose for a picture, but he enjoyed himself thoroughly, climbing and sliding and climbing and sliding!
We finally took a break from the wind and had lunch in the van. We brought all kinds of fruit, veggies, and pb&j sandwiches.
We gave everyone a chocolate chip cookie afterwards and headed out for a walk! Some liked the cookie more than others…
Dekker and Laela asked to push the stroller, which they actually did a pretty great job of, minus a few brief off roading adventures. Brady and I actually had the opportunity to walk and hold hands!
On our first lap around town, we were surprised to see the little grocery store was open! Almost everything was closed, as expected, but the grocery store is also the location of the bakery. Brady ducked his head in, and sure enough, they were working on a small batch of treats! They said to give them a half hour, which we happily agreed to. We meandered around town and got back just as the first treats of the season were coming out of the oven!!!
The kids shared a sticky bun between them, which seems stingy, but we had JUST eaten lunch and no one was especially hungry. So it was just a little treat 🙂
Brady had a bite or two of their stick bun, and then shared a piping hot mini pizza with me and Bambina. He’s lucky we love him, because she and I could’ve eaten twelve of those things. 🤤
We headed back to the playground for the rest of the afternoon. My body was quite achy at this point so I tucked away on a bench and watched my family play. It was actually really, really nice. Everyone came to join me from time to time. Dekker and Laela in particular came over to bring rocks to show me, and speculate whether or not Bambina will like collecting rocks.
The kids were all just SO gorgeous and happy in the sun! ☀
Just a few glamour shots. I couldn’t resist!! There were WAY more!!! Literally, this is the absolute minimum I could post!
The drive home looked a lot like this. All the boys had a shorty nap between Waskesiu and Prince Albert, where we stopped for supper.
It was pretty perfect, actually. Minus the time Solly went for a round #2 of shoe tasting and kicked himself in the face, causing a pretty nasty nosebleed! (I admit, I laughed a bit. Natural consequences.) They all stayed awake the rest of the way home and came home in good spirits. It seems we truly hit the sweet spot, where everyone was still in good shape when we left the lake and was happy when we got home, yet very understanding that it was bedtime. It actually took a little while for them all to wind down, but I’d rather that than have the entire group overtired and wailing.
Brady and I, on the other hand, were wiped right out and SO ready for bed! In the BEST way! I was nodding off by 9:45. We were ready to call it quits for the day when our smoke alarms started chirping. And chirping. And chirping. We could NOT get them quiet, no matter what.
So around 12:30 we finally admitting defeat, popped the one off of our bedroom ceiling, cranked the fan on high so we couldn’t hear the others near our room, and hit the hay. My. Gosh.
Our exhausted bodies didn’t have it in them to wake everyone up this morning in time to bathe them, shower ourselves, and make it to church on time, knowing that we’d have to race home and fight with the smoke alarms before napping the kids. I just knew we’d be scrambling and raising our voices and getting all worked up, and it just wasn’t what this morning was for.
So, instead, we stayed home and had breakfast in bed. I’ve been working hard on this blog for about hours now, Brady has worked with the smoke alarms and we think the problem is solved? Until you hear otherwise, anyway. Stay tuned for that. Now, laundry is running, thanks to beach clothes, Solly’s nosebleed in the van, and Laela’s morning nosebleed. The kids are colouring and happy. Baths will happen sooner or later. We have no schedule today. Its wrapping up to be a pretty good weekend, if you ask me!