We have had a super duper busy, and most fun long weekend! This May 2-4, we continued our tradition of trailer camping with Al and Steph. We have gone long weekend camping together to kick off summer in 2012, 2013, 2014 and again this year! It gets a little different every year as we both add to our families. Luckily, my 19 week bump doesn't take up much extra space at this point, but this year we did have an extra 6 month baby! On Friday evening, we headed up to Wildwood conservation centre in St. Marys for a 2 night adventure with our Osborne friends!
We got to the trailer on Friday around 6:30-7pm. Our pulled pork supper was all ready to be eaten when we arrived, and afterward Aleksy and I pulled out our birthday surprises for Steph! Her bday was Tuesday, so I made her a chocolate on chocolate bday cake and we brought her bday present too (a baked good cookbook wrapped in some new tea towels). Colton was very excited to be eating cake for a week straight with Mothers Day and his mommys bday celebrations! It only took the 5 of us (Colton incl.) 2 days to finish that off!
After supper, we went on a brief walk to the park for Colton's enjoyment (and also to exploe the campground). I also like swings. But I was probably a bit more pumped to get the fire started and pull out my fav thing about camping: smores! Several were had. That night I had a later night and went to bed around 1am... but Aleksy and Al were even later ad said they stayed up until 3... we wouldn't know because Aleksy and Al were tent sleepers. The trailer is getting a bit tight these days with the 2 babies plus us, so Aleksy and Al "real camped".
The next morning, we were awaken around 8am by our little people (not so bad for 2 babies!). It was cloudy and a wee bit chilly, but after a healthy breakfast of egg sandwiches (better than a sausage egg mcmuffin!) we headed into the town of St. Mary's for the morning.
We started at the park by the river in St. Marys where there was a little park for Colton to play on then headed up to the main strip. Chase slept a good majority of the time in his stroller.
And we walked all the way up to the waterfall and got this shot for old times sake: we have one from our 6 year anniversary about 4 years ago, which I blogged about then:
http://kat-todaysanewday.blogspot.ca/
2011/09/our-6-year-anniversary.html
St. Mary's is so pretty!
After a morning of walking all over St. Mary's, we wanted to finish off our adventure with an ice cream. The place that Aleksy and I had gone a couple years back was closed down so we tried the chocolate factory, which was on the main strip. They didn't sell ice cream (but we did get some chocolate), and they recommended Hearns for ice cream just down the street. It was a cute little ice cream place and by that time it had gotten warm so business was def picking up for the ice cream place. I had a blueberry cheesecake flurry which I was sure I couldn't finish until I did.
We got back to the trailer just after lunch time and although we were pretty full after the ice cream, we whipped up some lunch anyways. We had some sausages, salad and potato salad. We hung out for a bit lounging outside of the trailer and enjoyed the super nice 25 C weather, where Colton targeted and attacked me with his watergun until I was soaked! We then decided to do one of the trails of the conservation area. We left around 3:30 for the trail.
And this is us on the trail! It took us over an our to complete the trail and we were pretty tired at the end after walking out in the sun all day. Colton was especially feeling tired toward the end and we could tell by the increase of his tripping over roots. He was very cute though gathering "gifts" for me all day: flowers (dandelions), rocks, and sticks.
It was a nice trail, and we were impressed by the size of the campground and how much there is to do and see (we didn't even have time to visit the lake that the campground was built around!).
That night we had some supper, smores and went to sleep a little earlier around 12am. We left the next morning after breakfast so we could shower (because 3 days without a shower was kinda dirty) and get ready for birthday celebrations for my sister and Kenny's birthdays!
On Sunday afternoon, Kenny had set up a surprise birthday party for my sisters 33rd birthday! She was out with my Mom shopping for the afternoon and my Mom was to bring her home for 4pm and we all were hanging out in the back yard... Steph only knew Aleksy and I would be there because we had made supper plans. Kenny had planned everything out from having extra tables, decorations and food!
When Steph got home, we had some awesome bbq and hung out in the backyard... me with my special non alcoholic drinks and everyone else enjoying their cold beverages (I'm finding it isn't so bad.... yet!).
Kenny had bought fireworks for the night too! Before it got dark, Kenny set them off in the park across from their house! This is the kids loving their lives watching the fireworks going off. Rachel is all dressed up in her batman outfit and she was jumping up and down in excitement! Birthday fireworks!
It was a bit of a tiring weekend with all our camping adventures so Aleksy and I called it a night early around 10:30 on Sunday. We did have an extended birthday celebration today: the holiday Monday at my dads!
And today was a good day to recuperate with a good sleep in (until 9!), catch up on laundry and get some "me" time in at the gym! We headed over to my Dads around 5pm for some pizza, cake and (extended) birthday celebrations.
We had the best weather all weekend, feeling like summer! The best kinda May 2-4!
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