Early Summer Photos II

After a great Thunder Bay trip, we arrived home, did some laundry, then headed to Montreal. My parents looked after the kids while Kate and I headed to Ottawa with the intention of running our 2nd annual marathon. Unfortunately Kate got sick and had to skip the run. Apparently, my spirit (or legs) felt the same way, as I ran fast (relatively, for an old, non-Kenyan) for 25km and then died a sad death and shuffled home for 17 much slower km. Lessons learned - either train harder, run slower, or run a shorter distance!

We did have fun Ottawa visits with Martin (who went for breakfast with Kate, me, and Greg in Ottawa 14 years ago, after our 2nd date!), and Claudie (who officiated our non-official wedding).

- Fun in Grammy's backyard

- Not sure what is more alarming. How good Jacob looks in his sister's clothes. Or how good Jacob looks in his sister's clothes considering that everyone says he looks like me. Hmmm.

- The season for climbing trees is upon us. It helps that some of our trees are practically horizontal.

- Not sure exactly what look she was going for here...

- Molly and Jacob being checked out at the Elmvale Zoo. Oh boy, it's not exactly the Masai Mara.

- Zoë and Ella at the Zoo playground

- Our new deck furniture. Now we actually use our deck!

- And the boxes the furniture came in. Full-screen the photo to see the girls' peeking out the "windows"

- Yes, the dock is in. And the kids have swum almost every day since.

- Zoë's new haircut. We finally gave up on growing it out as she really wasn't fond of keeping clips, ponytails, etc. in her hair


 

- My new haircut too. Actually the same haircut as the last 20 years, but who's counting.

- Final playball session of the year