Vacation Stats

We are just home from the first leg of our vacation. We have been house sitting and dog sitting for our good friends Tim & Monica in the big town of Zurich, Ontario. It was great to get away form the city, enjoy small town life and just relax as a family. Tomorrow we head out to WIld Waterworks as a family before a BBQ with family from out of town. Friday we head up North to Huntsville and camp overnight as we have a family reunion on Saturday. Sunday I have some photo shoots I'm looking forward to!

Anyhow, here are the vacation stats at present:

57 minutes of Madi trying to convince us she needs a horse and wants to live on a horse farm. (Even when we told her dad is deathly allergic to horses and she'd have to choose a horse or dad - she chose a horse. Sorry Mark!)

24 minutes following the above of Madi practicing talking like a cowgirl. "Yee-haw!" "Y'all come back now, ya hear?"

74 people, characters, animals and names Eden insisted we call her. "I'm a kangaroo... I'm Tarzan... I'm a ballerina... I'm Madi... I'm the mom.... I'm a triceratops..."

31 "dinosaur eggs" we found at the beach (aka large oval rocks) that we had to convince our girls we could not bring home.

5 "dinosaur eggs" we gave in on and are sitting in our van.

133 times we caught Eden lying on Phil the dog (who we were dog-sitting) although she is allergic to dogs.

1 stray cat we found Eden carrying around by it's neck.

47 times we said "Let's move out of the city" and dreamed of small town life or living in the country

5 times I fell asleep in the hammock, 4 afternoon naps, 3 movies I fell asleep during, and 2 car rides I slept through. I love sleep.

Laughs, trips to the beach, BBQ and games with new friends, early morning photo trip with Sandra, ice cream cones, watching the sunset, campfire & smores, reading books, hanging out with 3 of my fave people in the world (my hubby & girls), laughing some more...
so far so good!

I tried to leave the camera as much as possible - but I love snapping pics!! It's how I relax and what I enjoy doing. An e-mail I received today from someone who I'll be photographing next month sums it up: "I get the idea that Krista does not consider this to be a job, as she seems to love it so much." So true!! I didn't snap as much as usual - but here are a couple snapshots from the week so far...

Here's "French-Girl-Ballerina-Cowgirl-Madison" as she likes to be called now (in full) pretending to be a lion protecting her dinosaur eggs. Confused? Welcome to my world.


Madi - sorry, I should say French-Girl-Ballerina-Cowgirl-Madison, and I went down and watched the sunset one night. It was beautiful! The sunset and the company.



Lake Huron has some of the best sunsets!


I have a thing for clouds - my hubby will attest I comment on the clouds daily. Good clouds make great pics!


Eden (aka "SuperMarty" - that's her super hero name) having a heart to heart chat with Phil the Dog.


One of my many pics taken on my early morning photo trip with Sandra to the great town of Bayfield. More to come...