Sunday, September 23, 2012

Sunday July 29th to Wednesday August 1st, 2012 - Lumina Resort and Visit on Poppa's Boat

Here is our cottage for the five nights we stayed at Lumina Resort, "The Brownie".

Campbell on Daddy's shoulders.. It was so great for J and myself to have so much time with the boys.. just playing.. breakfast and supper are supplied at the dining room, so that didn't take away from our family time.. which was amazing.. 

Campbell really turned into an even better big brother.. taking such good care of Miles.. Seeing them holding hands was one of my favourite things.

The meals were great.. and they had certain things every meal geared towards kids.. Here is Campbell eating his desert one night which was his first ice cream cookie sandwich which as you can see was covered in sprinkles.. he was just thrilled with it.

Miles playing on the lawn..

Daddy and the boys playing on the lawn after supper as the sun sets.. Oh what fun!!

Mommy and her boys.. I really cherish the time we all have together that we can do fun things..

Here are the shirts that we tie dyed, for us all to remember the fun..

Being silly with Poppa and Joanne on Poppa's boat.. Campbell couldn't stop laughing.. he had tears in his eyes.. it was great fun..

Campbell, Miles, Daddy and Poppa with the fish.. YEAH!!

Can you tell from the look between father and son here that they are having a good time with the boys.. I love that I caught this on camera.. It was a lot of fun, even though the weather didn't really cooperate.

Campbell brought his toy fishing rod.. here is Campbell with it and Miles looking and fishing out the back of the boat.. they REALLY enjoyed it. What a special treat..

Campbell feeding a duck out of his hand on the beach back at Lumina Resort.

Campbell and Daddy going on a paddle boat ride at Lumina Resort. Campbell's first time.. he really enjoyed it..

Miles and Mommy on a paddle boat ride.. Miles enjoyed it too I think.. he fell asleep about half way through.. :) too funny.

Both boys loved playing shuffle board.. or at least playing with the shuffle board things. :)

We swam in the pool too of course.. Campbell could stay in the water all day, I think. 




Here is Campbell and Daddy up on the water trampoline.. Campbell swam all the way out there on his own.. and after jumping for a while.. slid down the slide to Daddy.. the water is over Daddy's head here.. and he was so brave.. It was amazing what he tried here..

Campbell at the top of the mountain after climbing all the way to the top.. once again the water is over J's head out there.. climbing down was hard and I there was a bit of a scary fall.. but he was still swimming around after.. so it didn't stop him from liking the water and having lots of fun in it..

There was a lot of building and digging in the sand on the beach of course..

Here is our table.. The first night you are given a family table and a server.. for the rest of your stay you have that table and server.. Here we are at our table in our tie dyed shirts.. :) 

Miles playing at the play structures after supper.. 

Campbell playing at the play structures after supper.. 


Oma came to visit on our last day there.. Really nice for the boys to have some more time with Oma on her own.. Here is Campbell showing Oma around Lumina.

We went on a bunch of nature walks after supper (partly because they are fun and parly because we ate too much at supper and needed to walk some off).. Can you see the deer in the background here? There is one Mommy and a baby with spots and all.. Campbell and Miles were so amazed by them..

Sometimes on the nature walks all we saw were cats but Campbell and Miles really liked them as well.. 

Campbell out on the dock..


Our family having fun on the lawn after supper as the sun sets.. Miles only looks said because he didn't want to sit for the picture.. :)


For only a five night stay and we really only spent 3.5 days on the resort, we did a lot of stuff and had a huge amount of fun.. Campbell proved to be a bigger boy than J or myself had realized and it was amazing to spend so much time as a family having FUN!! 

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Saturday July 28th, 2012 - Vacation Started...

So we packed up the truck to head out on our big driving vacation.. and in our defence there were a nice few things that we took that we technically brought in case we needed them.. I guess what they say is true.. you pack depending on the space you have.. ;)

Campbell helping Daddy pack the last few things.. He was so excited to go on vacation..

The boys were really excited about going..

Oma's surprise Birthday party was that afternoon/night.. here is a picture of the kids in the hot tub (heat level low, of course).. Campbell and Tegan had so much fun swimming that I thought they would never get out.. They were literally in there for hours.. Miles wanted to be in for longer but I think we would have broken our backs making sure he didn't drown.. 

Miles had so much fun with Chevy, Hans and Jan's dog. Here is a picture of him feeding him a piece of carrot.. (Jan was giving them to him so it was ok) I didn't catch a good picture of his face but he was so proud to be doing this.. :)
 Campbell, also a dog lover, couldn't be left out and came out of the hot tub for a few minutes to feed Chevy a piece.. :)

Campbell giving Oma the birthday card he made for her.. He was very proud of it and he loved that Oma liked it.

A great time had by all.. A great way to start the vacation..