Finally, a bit of time

 Here we are:  Labour Day, the day before school and Dave's 38th birthday.  And I am finally finding a bit of time to post photos from the summer.  For a few years, Ben has been after Dave to teach him how to fish.  This was the first summer in which Dave was able to find a moment's rest in which to purchase a fishing license, root the fishing rods out from his parents' basement and bring the boys down to the lake where they, in Joe's words, caught a whole lot of seaweed.  It was good father-son bonding time, though.

 And this was the summer of a whole lot of travel, maybe a bit too much.   This particular photo was taken on the way to Nazareth Family Camp, a six-hour drive and a short one by travelling-out-east standards.  The week was wonderful and quite tiring.  We came back home for a total of five days (enough time to do 12 loads of laundry and re-pack) and then we headed out east for a 19 hour drive. (Photos will come in the next post.)

 One of the highlights of our time at family camp was that we got to spend a week with Isaac's godparents and their four girls.  Isaac has a fabulous set of godparents whose four blond and blue-eyed daughters look more like Isaac's siblings than do his own.  (We always take genetics into consideration when choosing godparents!)  The week was a bit more of a pilgrimage than a vacation; but, like all spiritually/physically arduous journeys, it has already born great fruit in our family life.

 Here is Isaac's godparents' fourth daughter, Lucia; she is our goddaughter and, unlike Isaac, looks nothing like her godparents.  It was a joy to spend a week with her and get a few more glimpses into her growing character - beautiful girl.

This poor lady, Dave's sister Julie, gave birth to twin girls the day we arrived back from our vacation in Nova Scotia.  She kept those girls in till the bitter end (38 weeks and change) and produced a 7 lb 10 oz girl and a 6 lb 9 oz girl, Chelsea and Clara.  We have yet to meet our new nieces as we are keeping our distance as the new parents adjust to life with twins.  Ahh, the memories...