Summer weekends with friends

Our summer weekends fill up so quickly with fun summery plans and in July, we had a couple of weekend getaways!

On the July 13th weekend, we went up to our friends Zac and Sam (and their kiddos!) place near Kincardine for the weekend. When we got there on the Saturday, it was a friends reunion because the Osbornes were also there to visit because it was right en route from the cottage they were staying at on their way home. So we all had a beach day together!

When we got back from the beach, the kiddos had some good patio play complete with a swimming pool and multiple options of water tables.

We had a 4pm lunch/supper of some cheese meat crackers and veggies and then a water balloon fight to top it off!

Since these were on sale for a few bucks off from Costco, we had to get them! Logan loves throwing some water balloons at us and us him.

These pictures have been a tradition for a long time now! The first one I have Logan is about 9 months old with just Scarlett who would have been 2 and a half at the time!

No we have a Leah and Bill too.

July 20th weekend, we rented a cottage at Ipperwash beach for the weekend! It was going to be with the Osbornes and Websters but then the littlest Osborne ended up with an infection (something we can definitely relate to with Leelee) so it ended up being us and the Websters...

We went during the heat wave where they said to stay inside... and instead we had beach days and a no AC cottage! Well 1 AC that was in the upstairs room... The first day we got there on the Friday was super hot. We went straight to the beach and spent the evening there. It was perfect when staying in the water!

Our cottage had a chip wagon right on the property so we did a quick burger and fries for supper that night and the kiddos had a bit of a later night.

The power had gone out that night/morning at around 5am and was not on in the morning when we woke up! So I couldn't make coffee which was an emergency so I drove down to Forest to the Tim's to get coffees. These little guys (the triplets according to someone on the beach!!) had a morning digging adventure and then we headed to the beach for the morning!

On the way down to the beach, there were a bunch of kayaks and paddle boards for rent and we rented a stand up paddle board for 1/2 a day. The kids loved this! To the kids its just a boat...

And I tried stand up paddle boarding for the first time too! It is super relaxing.. a bit of a balance act but not difficult at all!

And Logan finally got some use out of his alligator floatie that he got from the Easter bunny. Apparently its not a 2 man alligator (actually Logan could hardly stay up on it himself..).

On this day, we did 2 trips to the beach... 1 in the am then back to the cottage for lunch and then back to the beach for the afternoon.

We skipped the chip wagon for night 2 and just ordered pizza instead!

This was the night of the storm and we ended up putting the kiddos down around 7pm and watching the crazy wind blowing the trees with thunder and lightning from our patio. It was pretty crazy!

And the next morning, we headed out for a walk. We wanted to do the hiking trail that we had done on Mothers day but when we got there we were instantly eaten alive by mosquitos so we had to run out of there fast!

We ended up walking along the beach instead. And on the way we saw tons of tree branches everywhere broken off from the storm!

At the end of the beach walk, the ice cream store was conveniently right there and conveniently opened right when we got there (because 10am ice cream is totally reasonable..). Ice cream for breakfast!!

Although we had the place for another night, we packed up on the Sunday because everyone had to work the next day (not me.. what's work?).

Beach, cottage and friends weekends are the best!