First Wildside Weekend and a Church Performance!

This is the view I get to look at as I walk out the sliding doors of the trailer at Wildside. Paradise. This place is very much our happy place. We had deep cleaned it all last week, and some last things to scrub and get ready for spring, so we decided to go up and spend a night. Jon was out caving all day with a group from PCS, so Quinny and I drove up and met him at dinnertime. I had marinated chicken and corn on the cob all ready to go!

When we went camping to Little Qualicum a few weeks ago, Jon hung Q's new Frozen flashlight from the roof of the tent so that she had a light when she went to bed. We cleaned out her room and I set up her bed and everything, and she stayed back there and played and organized. I could hear her pacing around and grunting and saying "ugh! oh no! Come on!" and other things like that. I asked her what was the matter, and she came out and had the saddest face on and told me that she couldn't find anywhere to hang her special light. She wanted to hang it up like she did in the tent. So cute! She went and asked her Daddy to help her, and so he found some string and put a nail in to hold the light. What a good Daddy! She was SO excited!

She wanted to bring her Sky and Everest (paw patrol pups) and her Hawaiian Chicken with to camp because those are her favorite things right now. She took them back there and lined them all up on her bed all neatly. So typical haha! See the cool light hanging? She was thrilled about the whole set up

Looking out the window at the sweet view that she has! I am SO excited for the summer with this girl! This is going to be our best one yet, I have a feeling :)

This is her second cob of corn. Yep, second. After eating an entire chicken breast also. This kid loves corn on the cob, she devours it!

After dinner fire! We love so much that the Denningers are up at camp! Quinny loves Maelle (she calls her "My Me-elle) and follows her around everywhere, and Maelle is such a sweet girl and lets her. The Burdges came over on their bikes and joined the party. After the families all left and Q was sleeping, Brad and Lisa came over - I love how much Q loves them, but it was really lovely to hang out with them just the four of us! It was a really great evening spent with good friends all around.

Happy camp friends

On Saturday morning we had a great breakfast and drank coffee and cleaned the rest of the trailer - so much scrubbing to get that mold smell out! I'm not sure it will ever really be gone, but at least it's much better! We (well okay Jon, not me) put these little things in the trailer that suck the moisture up over the winter and it really did help. The trailer is in much better shape this spring than it was last winter! But there is still so much more upgrading to do in that place, and I like fixing it up. It's a cute little place that I love. Anyways, Jacob came up with his kids (well 2 of the three since Ben is a newborn :) to hang out for a bit and to see what he all needs to build next weekend and make a list of materials. SO great that we have talented friends who are willing to give Wildside their expertise and skills for free! The kids had a great time running around playing together. Quinny has so many great little friends! Gabe and Kathleen are too cute!

After they left, we had a picnic lunch and then jumped in a canoe to paddle around and let Q try out her new paddle! We bought it for her because it fits toddlers and then can grow with her! Last summer she loved canoe day and was very into paddling, so we thought she would love this. We were right! She was on cloud nine! She took paddling very seriously and worked very hard! Not long after we took this, she said she wanted to sit on the seat at the front. So I switched her spots and sat in on the bottom right behind her and she was in the front. Pretty funny! She makes her dad proud!

Our girl at the front paddling her heart out. We did keep telling her how to hold it properly, but she kept reverting back to this. We will work on that! But she did so great!

Love adventures with this guy and his love for the outdoors.

Q napped and Jon and I played a game and chatted - so relaxing and perfect! We were planning on heading home before dinner, but Q had a super long nap. So we went into Lake Cow and decided to go to J&V's for a pizza and a milkshake - treat day! (i actually had a wicked stomach ache after and could only drink half my milkshake... these treats almost aren't even worth it!). Quinny was being so hyper and silly and making us laugh.

Cute girl. I love these two so very much. We had such a fun day. I have the best family

Jon did music again on Sunday with some of our youth (and steve) and they did great!

 Jen and Jon have been practicing with the kids actions to the song "My Lighthouse", and as Jon and his band led that song as the last song, the kids were up front singing along and doing all the actions. It was supposed to be all the Grades1-6's up there, but Jen asked Quinny if she wanted to be up there too, and she was so excited about it! She loves this song and knows all the words. So she knew that she had to focus and be a good listener if she wanted to go up with all the big kids (Alistar was allowed to go up there too, so the two toddlers are standing beside each other, helping each other out, but he's hiding his cute curly haired head in the picture!). She did SO GOOD! She followed along to all the actions and even sang the words! Her first ever performance!

 It was totally adorable and I was so proud of her! She often gets timid in a crowd, so it was so neat to see her up there, having fun and being with the big kids! I so wish that we went to church with some family so that they could have seen her too. Ady was sitting beside me and kept clapping along and yelling "Tinny! Tinny!" haha!

 Sitting very still and quietly while Jon prayed over the kids and dismissed them to go downstairs. She is so good at following directions, and it makes my heart proud! You did good, kid!! And even if you hadn't followed along, I would have still been so proud of you for even just getting up there!

 We decided after church to head to Victoria again just for the afternoon to see Tim and Lois. We had them all to ourselves, which was a rare treat!! I love when everyone is around and its busy and loud, but it was really nice to have some one on one time with them as well! And this way they got concentrated time with Quinny which is awesome. It was a chilly day so no swimming in the pool, but Jon and Q and I went in the hot tub for a long time while Lois sat beside and chatted with us. As we were prepping dinner, I took this because it made me laugh - Lois cuts cucumbers and sets them out, and Q sneaks them off the plate to eat.

 After dinner walk up to the reservoir and park. "Papa, you hold my hand please?" she asks so sweetly. Papa agrees and away they go hand in hand. Such a sweet bond between them

 Now holding Daddy's hand - I had to take this of the back of her head. Those curls! They never cease to amaze me! She has the most incredible hair I have ever seen on a toddler! (or really any adult!)

 He is such a kid at heart and just makes everyone laugh. Here he is getting his mom to push him. She agrees without even blinking an eye and just says "no underducks!" haha! love this family. 

 Laughing with his dad. Jon has such great parents.

 As we were walking home, this girl of course wanted to stop and go see the chickens at Mike and Jane's. She loves going to visit these chickens. I find it so funny that these animals have become her favorite. If only we lived somewhere with more land and could raise chiekens! After she said good-bye to them, Mike came out with a green egg for her! One of the chickens lays eggs that are green all the time he said, and he let her take it home, which totally made her night. She was so gentle and careful with it. It was a really low key and lovely Sunday.