First campout of the season!

We've (finally) been blessed with warm, sunny weather after such a cold, wet spring. Yesterday afternoon Don and the girls set up a tent in the backyard for our first campout of the season. The plan was for just Don and the girls to sleep there but at the last minute Don took Nick out, too. Don set up the laptop to play Cars. Patience fell asleep during the movie, but I heard Nick and Jordyn awake and talking after 10:00 when I headed up to bed.

Everyone was awake by 5:30. Of course it's broad daylight by then, so that doesn't help : ) It's 9:00 a.m. now and Nick is already down for his nap.

Dylan's new job is working out really well! He leaves the house around 5:30 a.m. so he has a self-imposed bedtime of 9:30 or so. He's been able to work some overtime a couple of days this week, which he's happy to do at time and a half!

Yesterday I brought up all the girls' summer clothes and washed them. The girls were so excited to be able to put on shorts and t-shirts. You would have thought that they were going to Disneyland by the way they were yelling with joy : )

We celebrated the arrival of spring by planting seeds in my new raised garden beds out back.

Haley's grad pictures are up! Another wonderful photo session by Anita...

Today Nathan starts his new job at the LA/Long Beach small boat station. He told me on the phone last night that when he visited the station last week the station really reminded him of the Boat Shed on Quadra! I imagine he'll soon be as dark as he is in these pictures. I told him not to expect a barbequed steak for dinner every night. I'll talk to him again Monday after he finishes his 72-hour shift and see what he really thinks. He told me that yesterday he played roller hockey at this nice outdoor roller hockey rink that's run by the Long Beach Parks and Rec department and then afterwards he rode his bike along the beach path all the way to Belmont Shores.

This weekend is Don's birthday as well as Victoria Day so we'll be enjoying a 3-day weekend! Hopefully the weather will continue to be this lovely.

Cheers!