Parksville and Cow Bay

This totally made me laugh. Accurate! 

On Wednesday evening we walked down to the beach in Crofon and Stephen let us bury him. Q thought this was hilarious and we laughed at him a lot

An Ice Cream truck comes through Crofton every Wednesday evening! Who knew!? Not me, since we are never home in the summer during the week! We chased it down and I got a blended coffee drink and everyone else got ice cream - it was so cheap and really good! Love small towns.

Look at that happy face! Just in her glory with all this ice cream haha! Chocolate for her, always

Beach fun

Cuties!

Saige and Quinny racing along the boardwalk. This was a good night - relaxed and easy and everyone was just chilled out and happy

We drove out to Parksville again the next day - my mom loves Parksville! She really wanted to go play mini golf, so off we went! Jon had to work and Trevor sat out because he had Chester, but the rest of us went!

Hole in ones for us!

Hole in one for her too!

We sent this to Jon to say hi during his work day haha!

She is so often silly and loud and busy and eager to make people laugh with her goofy faces and this shot to me shows her other side - the softer, gentle side, full of grace and quietness. She is such a beauty and I love watching her unfold as she grows

Best part of doing things like this with Grandma is that she lets Quinny go on these rides and gives her the loonies to make them run

She had a lot of fun with these two. They don't have tons of experience with kids so its fun for me to sit back and watch them interact. She opens them up and makes them laugh and they are good with her

We ate Subway at the beach and as we were finishing, dark clouds were rolling in! But they still wanted to check out the water, so we went and played for a little while. Q told us "No more pictures! I don't want to smile anymore" which I thought was funny - the kid had a LOT of pictures taken of her in these two weeks! So she hid her face and wouldn't look

One of my favorite pictures of the last two weeks. I love these two so very much!

Look at those dark clouds! We stayed for a bit but when the rain really started to come, we headed for home!

That evening turned out to be pretty nice, so Saige and I went outside and picked a bunch of blackberries right behind my fence. Love fresh blackberries!!! And then that night Jon took the boys (and Jacob) to Chemainus for drop in road hockey! Our church has started doing this on Thursday nights, open to any males over 16, and they play up in the sports court at 830-10 usually. He loves it, so he convinced these guys to go with him. They all came back hyped up, and talking all about the night, and they were so sweaty! So I guess they had a fun time :) Saige and Mom and I stayed and played Skip-Bo and Phase 10. It was a nice, quiet evening!!

For their last day, Mom wanted them to experience Old Town Bakery cinnamon buns so we stopped there - I am going to have to work HARD after company leaves with all these treats!!!

We walked around downtown Ladysmith and Q and I stopped in a used book store. I wandered around and picked up a few books, and she right away found a few kids books that she went and sat to read. She is such a reader and LOVES books. I read to her often, and at night after we are done reading together, she often asks to read a few books on her own, and will lay there flipping through pages and talking about the story quietly to herself. I have gotten lost in books for as long as I can remember, and it makes me happy that for now at least, she loves books and stories as well.

While she napped, we enjoyed the sunshine outside and played cards, and she joined once she was up!

Walking around Cow Bay for their last evening here

We ate a fancy seafood dinner down there which was awesome! We all laughed lots and enjoyed being together, which was nice!

And then ONE more ice cream before they had to go!

Jon worked all day and then drove down to Cow Bay to meet us in the restaurant. Love him!

We played games and just hung out all together before they had to leave the next morning! I was really sad to see my mom go. Having company for that long was super tiring, and I was ready to get up to camp, but having her here was just so good. It was a good start to the summer!!