My nieces were over last night for homemade pizza and they requested heart shaped pizza. This is so easy and they were so pleased. Their simple enjoyment of something small like heart shaped food is a good reminder to me that I need to take joy out of the small things in life. It is so easy to get caught up in life’s worries and forget to just really enjoy the little stuff. Luckily kids always remind me of this. I have been working on a large painting which has been taking up a lot of my creative time. So I though I would share some art even if its not mine. This is my son’s first crayon drawing! Enjoy your day!

Another fair has come and gone. Summer wouldn’t be complete without chuck wagon races, veggy critters, small parades with lots of candy, every kind of pie under the sun and making yourself sick on fresh corn on the cob.

We headed to the farm after Piprell because we were going to go the Kelvington Fair on the weekend. We went on a long hike while my parents babysat and picked tons of wild raspberries. We found quite a few wild strawberries as well which we just ate. They are so tiny and so good. It would take you a week to fill a cup of them though. I will have to make something tasty with my raspberries and post it.

We had another great time with the family up at Piprell lake. All the cousins had a blast together. We had good weather and the fishing was better this year. I was able to go see some of the gem lakes for the first time as well and now I want to go back and see all of them. H. went belly boating with us and had a bottle and napped the whole time.

Last week we attended my brother-in-law P.’s wedding which was celebrated in Lumsden, Saskatchewan at my new sister-in-law M.’s family home. Lumsden is in the Qu’Appelle Valley and as you can see it is a beautiful spot.

M.’s parents have an amazing garden so I couldn’t resist taking a few shots of the various flowers.

The flowers for the wedding were also amazing.

The bride and groom!

M.’s mother is also an avid quilter so of course there was lots of really nice touches to the wedding that involved quilting, such as the guest signing quilt, cake quilt, and the gorgeous quilt she made them as a wedding gift. She also made the babies in the family bibs and little aprons for the flower girls to wear during the meal. Seriously I wish I was that prolific and talented.

Then we come to the best part, well a really tasty part anyway, that I think everyone enjoyed not just the kids. The Candy Bar! I think this was maybe even more popular than the alcohol bar.

I think all the little special touches, great hospitality and family dance moves made this one of the loveliest weddings I have ever been to.

I decided to go up to my parents land for the week to see how the cabin was coming along. It was exciting to see the windows getting cut out. Its nice to get out of the city again and we had great weather while we were there.

This is the view from cabin. The air was hazy but not from northern forest fires as I thought at first but,  water. It was so humid. Driving there I saw that large areas in the fields were underwater. Many farmers were not able to get their crops in on time because it has been so wet. I remember as a kid we would walk to the field on the right in the picture through the gap in the trees but now its completely submerged.

flycatcher babies under one of the cabin bump outs

I also spotted this sinister looking guy on one my jaunts when I decided to brave the mosquitos. I don’t know if you can tell from the picture very well but its a vulture. He was kind of intimidating to approach because you realise they are really massive birds when you get up close.