So this week we got our flooring installed (we ordered the flooring way before summer, but haven't had a chance to install it.. until now!) and it ended up taking 4 days, instead of the proposed 1 day! It was quite the busy week, we were pretty much living out of our van and our friends homes. Tuesday I drove out to camp imadene to spend the day with a friend while Steve stayed home and tried to help out with what he could as much as he was able. We were welcomed by the smell of fresh cinnamon bread and enjoyed a slow paced day, with a long walk and nice visits. I then came home to go to girls club with Danika here in Crofton. Wednesday we woke up and Danika and I went on a "Honeymoon" with our good friends, the Nagtegaal girls. We have been planning a trip to "Coffee on the moon" for quite some time and Danika has been bugging me non-stop to go on a honeymoon with Lize. It was quite cute, not sure where she got that from, but that's what I love about her! : )
We did some shopping, got our coffees and headed out to a park where I was in a tank top due to the beautiful day it turned out to be! I then packed the girls up and we headed back out to Imadene where the girls and I had the house to ourselves, until the Burdges got home and Steve drove out for a lovely dinner together of "clean eating" food. I love the way Sharon shared our dessert story so here it is...
Dessert was a 'clean' chocolate mousse (dark chocolate and lite silken tofu), nicole and i were stoked to see if we could fool the boys into eating TOFU!! It was also one of steves's favorite desserts.
So, picture it:
We all sit down in the living room with our beautiful dessert
(sorry, no pic-but chocolate mousse with lovely fresh raspberries on top in a martini glass)
We are all about to dig in.
The goal was to let the boys finish before telling them
Nicole couldn't wait...
She looks like the cat who ate the canary as she giddily gushes;
"OK!! you HAVE to guess what the ingredients are!!!"
Chris looks up, totally unimpressed at me and says
'Tofu'
'How did you KNOW?' she asks, all bummed.
'umm...i was sort of joking...really? its tofu?'
sigh...as chris slowly puts his glass down and steve feeds much of it to little Adessa
not to worry, we WILL get them next time..mwah haha...
when they least expect it!
The next day we decided to take the girls swimming in the morning and then go out to a new provincial park to explore. The swimming went fine, we found out Adessa is truly fearless as numerously she went under only to come up spouting water and laughing, wanting to do it again! However the trip to Bamberton, did not go so well! We thankfully had picked up some lunch and were right before the malahat (scary hwy on vancouver island) when our van made a weird noise, steve quickly pulled over to declare a belt had fallen off! We just laughed... this week was sort of crazy and this was the cherry on top! Our van was fully lived in, complete with a giant dog cage in the middle! We called BCAA and were able to get a tow truck surprisingly quickly (not like Calgary's AMA!) and through numerous phone calls (due to our phone cutting in and out EVERY TIME a vehicle drove by!!) our friends rescued us! As the tow truck could only take 2 passengers, not so helpful when you have 2 adults, 2 children and a pup!
Our friends rescued us, even conveniently had a brother who worked at a mechanics shop not so far away from us! We then spent the day at their welcoming home waiting for our van to be finished!
Another day... Another adventure. We would have been lost without our dear friends, and we are so grateful for each and every one of them!!!
We did some shopping, got our coffees and headed out to a park where I was in a tank top due to the beautiful day it turned out to be! I then packed the girls up and we headed back out to Imadene where the girls and I had the house to ourselves, until the Burdges got home and Steve drove out for a lovely dinner together of "clean eating" food. I love the way Sharon shared our dessert story so here it is...
Dessert was a 'clean' chocolate mousse (dark chocolate and lite silken tofu), nicole and i were stoked to see if we could fool the boys into eating TOFU!! It was also one of steves's favorite desserts.
So, picture it:
We all sit down in the living room with our beautiful dessert
(sorry, no pic-but chocolate mousse with lovely fresh raspberries on top in a martini glass)
We are all about to dig in.
The goal was to let the boys finish before telling them
Nicole couldn't wait...
She looks like the cat who ate the canary as she giddily gushes;
"OK!! you HAVE to guess what the ingredients are!!!"
Chris looks up, totally unimpressed at me and says
'Tofu'
'How did you KNOW?' she asks, all bummed.
'umm...i was sort of joking...really? its tofu?'
sigh...as chris slowly puts his glass down and steve feeds much of it to little Adessa
not to worry, we WILL get them next time..mwah haha...
when they least expect it!
The next day we decided to take the girls swimming in the morning and then go out to a new provincial park to explore. The swimming went fine, we found out Adessa is truly fearless as numerously she went under only to come up spouting water and laughing, wanting to do it again! However the trip to Bamberton, did not go so well! We thankfully had picked up some lunch and were right before the malahat (scary hwy on vancouver island) when our van made a weird noise, steve quickly pulled over to declare a belt had fallen off! We just laughed... this week was sort of crazy and this was the cherry on top! Our van was fully lived in, complete with a giant dog cage in the middle! We called BCAA and were able to get a tow truck surprisingly quickly (not like Calgary's AMA!) and through numerous phone calls (due to our phone cutting in and out EVERY TIME a vehicle drove by!!) our friends rescued us! As the tow truck could only take 2 passengers, not so helpful when you have 2 adults, 2 children and a pup!
Our friends rescued us, even conveniently had a brother who worked at a mechanics shop not so far away from us! We then spent the day at their welcoming home waiting for our van to be finished!
Another day... Another adventure. We would have been lost without our dear friends, and we are so grateful for each and every one of them!!!
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