We are back from our summer of adventure... and summer is already 1/2 over YIKES!

In June we were in my home stompin' grounds, Fort St John, for 2 weeks. We being my 3 children and I, my gal pal and sister in Christ, Kim and her 2 kids, plus my sisters 2 girls that we picked up along the way, from Prince George. You know that you are in the true north when entering town there is a sign saying

-Sporting Goods! - Hunting, Fishing and Camping Supplies!-

with a big picture of a mule deer with a Boon and Crockett rack! Being from the north I come by the red-neck girl thing' honestly. The trip is 13 hours in total, 7 hours east to Prince and 5 hours north to Taylor, which is about10 min. out of FSJ. We swam in all sort of water, 2 pools, 2 rivers, 1 lake and a water fight buckets. We were fortunate to have great weather and wonderful hospitality. We ripped it up in the Goodlow area! Tore up the buffalo fields -quite literally we drove through a friends herd of buffalo..... it was pretty awe inspiring to feel so small. The raw desire to own land, have a garden and maybe a buffalo or two..... (okay that might be too far), but it did get me thinking about what I want and who I am in God's eyes and my desire to honor what he has designed me to be.
Back to the trip: My Mama took a break and decided on coming home to Kitimat with us...... we stayed a couple of days in Prince George, with my sister, Jan.
Jan and Jack are both amazing people, there is none better... they both are so great! Both work full time and have a home with 5 acres, a rent-a-dog and cat that is perpetually pregnant and 7, sometimes 8, sometimes 9 kids.... she used to have 3 kids & he used to have 4... now they have 7 in total.... they have it down to an art.... plus they are host to a sympathy squatter, who has been there since x-mas! His 2 children come for visits on weekends... but that story I will save for another day. Needless to say when we roll to town with our extra mouths to feed and heads to lay down there is a house full but they are gracious and good hearted.

So my mom was here for 2 weeks, one of which we went out to Kemano. Kemano is a 2 hour boat ride down the channel from Kitimat where Rick works at the power house. We were home from Kemano for ONE night and then off onto the start of our family vacation. Dropped my ma off in Prince George at my Grandma and headed straight through to Quesnel. I do not want to talk about that, I will just say cheep motel on the highway and a 5am wake up call... the up side is that we arrived in Vernon to Harry's place at a great time. His real name is Elroy, but we call him Harry for short. Harry calls Rick Harry also so it gets kind of weird from there.
Friday we went to the Resort at white lake which is between Salmon Arm and Sorrento. A nice quite little place that is until we showed up! 27 of us in 5 cabins and one camper. It was wonderful. 42 degrees! An ice machine, plenty of beer and soda, great food, and family what more could a person ask for. There were turtles in and ducks the lake and so the little ones loved that! Most all of the day was spent basking in the sun in the comfort of the floating toys. Good times! We spent until Monday at the resort and then it was off to Trail for the remainder of the 2 ½ weeks.
In trail we just hung out and at and lounged. I should say that the kid and I hung out and lounged, Rick did a ton of work around his ma's home as well as at the neighbors yard. He is such a good hearted man. We had no schedule and no plans. It was great. I was able to hit the best sales at the thrift and consignment stores...... I love a fabulous bargain.
On route home we stopped in at Sicamous to visit a couple of my uncles. Jake who lives in Sicamous works as a dock builder/designer. Check out www.envirofloat.com to see some amazing work that he has done. The other uncle is Ali, and he and his family were up the lake at the shack for the week. (shack... huge georgous log home!) So my amazing cousin Ashley, Ali's oldest daughter, took us up there by boat the next day. What a life! He has a beauty of a new Malibu boat that made me look cool and 21 again! No one was actually looking' at me with Isabelle and Ash in the boat anyways!

Home from the SUNNY SIDE of BC......Aren't holidays the greatest!!
Will update this thing soon. My awe and honor to those who blog regularily.