Victoria Day

I have a lot of pictures of our last few weeks, so look for several posts (hopefully!) over the new few days :)

This is Monday, Victoria Day.  We spent an afternoon together with Daddy at Harrison Lake, one of our all time favourite spots, starting back when we were dating.  Both girls loved it.  It was not a warm day, but we built a sandcastle and walked around the lagoon before enjoying Wildcat fare for dinner.

Breaking out the sand toys

 Learning about sand :)  She quite liked the feel of it in her fingers, but notice the curled toes?

 The building begins...Chelsie getting lessons from a master builder on how it's done

While the building continued, Brynlie was eating sand,

 waving at strangers,

 staring at the nearby action, and generally enjoying herself, although the sand-eating I did not encourage!

 This little girl had a bucket of fish to show Chelsie...fish she'd caught in the lake.  After 'petting' them, holding them and watching them, here they're about to free them.  I'm sure these fish were glad to be set free.

 Showing off the finished sand castle :)  It even has roads in and a bridge over the moat!

 And quickly filling up the moat...

 Thanks, Daddy, that was fun!

 As the little girl watches, having been moved into the stroller for sand-eating reasons.

 Washing off in the lake.  Still at the age when stripping off her pants to get clean in

her under-broekies was not a concern ;)

 Smiles from a dirty pipsqueak :)

 And the sandcastle...looked so big close up but so small in the greater scheme of things. (on the left)

Then, the next day, we checked the recently set mouse traps.  We've come up with a way to successfully catch mice - in our home at least.  A new package of suet with one corner opened up is put against a wall in a well-travelled area as noted by the mouse droppings...3 mouse traps are set around the suet.  And we caught 8 mice in 8 days...and none for the past 5.  We hope they're all gone.  Note: the suet hasn't been touched!

Mouse disposer extraordinaire - Chelsie loves helping Daddy check the traps and get rid of any mice found in them.  Notice the thumbs up?!  While older people (namely her mom and auntie) are not too delighted with mice, she loves to help Daddy with this.  What a kid!