Returned from our camping vacation and back to work on the duplex. New carpets, new paint etc then spent a long week-end interviewing prospective new tenants. Then more play time!
Evelynn came to our house for a sleepover and the following day we took her to the Circus.
It wasn't quite the circus I remember from when our kids were little, but she seemed to enjoy it !
Next was Evan's 8th birthday. Evan loves his Grandma's pumpkin pie, (or any pie for that matter) so we celebrated with a birthday pie instead of a cake.
A trip to the Calgary Zoo is always in order, and this year there is a new penguin exhibit that we just couldn't miss.
Dino the Dinosaur still calls the Calgary Zoo his home, and I'm sure I have pictures of all the kids with him. I even have a photo my Dad took of me with Dino when we visited Calgary 50+ years ago. Keeping the tradition alive.!
For those of you who know my niece Kimberly, I just couldn't believe how much Evelynn looks like her in this picture.
Play time is over again, now we have to replace the shingles on the roof at the MacEwan house. We had a really bad hail storm this summer, and I tried calling many, many roofers, and of course they are all so busy, and we really wanted to have this done before we headed south again. We were able to talk Greg and a friend of his, who used to be a roofer and still had all the tools etc, to come and help out. Don and Shannon stripped most of the old shingles, then the boys, and Shannon worked like crazy the whole weekend and got it done...of course, this had to be one of the hottest weeks of the whole summer, so my job was to keep the cold water bottles flowing steady.
