Tamzin's GIANT Produce!

Tamzin has spent the summer growing GIANT produce - pumpkins and sunflowers.  

  We have others that are bigger.  But the deer took a liking to them so we picked this one early as the deer hadn't eaten it yet and we didn't want them to!

 * Can you guess the weight of this pumpkin

She had to have Alistair help her lift it.

 

Not the most comfy pillow!

  

 The Sunflowers were HUGE.  Over 7 feet tall.

The Giant head - the birds beat us to some of them.

Her bouquet!

She had lots of fun growing these this summer.  Next year she hopes to grow even bigger pumpkins.  He goal is to hollow one out and make it into a boat and float in the pond!  I 'm looking forward to watching that!

Mr Bear!

Mr Bear hanging round our house - I thought he was cute.  I kept having to go scare him away.

After about the 10th time of chasing him away, he got cross at me and decided he wasn't going to leave.  He decided he would like a piece of me. He's not so cute now!
 

 

So he started after me - that sure got my heart pumping.  I took off running back to the house.  He followed me right to the house.  I quickly closed the ranch slider. He came right up to a couple of meters away from me.

Here he is about 2 meters from me - I was peeking out the ranch slider at this stage.

 

Filming the "Summer" DVD Project

The wooden barges Craig made for the filming

 

Paddling to keep the barges in place

Ethan doing a fine job of keeping the barges in place

The beauty parlour on the beach! Brought the generator specially!

Kyle trying to dry his sock out that got wet when he slipped into the lake!

Marching to Zion!

Kyle helped with the filming on this project - he was excited about that.

Kyles First Day Of School

These pictures where taken on the first day of school for the last 3 years.
Do you think he has changed much?

First Day of School - EVER

This was Tamzin's first day of school - EVER.

I think she was looking forward to it.

I am sad though - I have no one to keep me company at home anymore - sniff sniff. 
I will miss our town trips Tamzin, (eating bagels and extreme pita's) and just hanging out together...........

Tamzin's First Cello Solo

Here is a link to Tamzin's first cello solo at a concert. 
It isn't very long, but she did a wonderful job of it!
I love the proud smile on Kyle's face!

This was at Hope Camp Meeting on Sabbath (July 28, 2012)

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQjYrf1c1w

Spot the Difference!

Can you spot the difference??

Camping with the Clevelands!

We spent the weekend camping at Setton Lake with the Clevelands. 
What a great time we had!.  The weather was amazing, the company was great, the food was tasty and the lake was somewhat warm!


 

Tamzin and Kyle enjoying the beautiful sunshine.

It was so smooth

The USS Cleveland!

House boat even has a water slide!

Getting water from the waterfall - off the back of the house boat.

These fashionable sunnies are now at the bottom of Setton Lake - I think James might know something about that!

Missey enjoyed the weekend too.

Wild raspberries we picked.  They were so tasty

Kyle & Ethan

Kyle & James about to do a tandem knee board.  Andrew looking on from the hot tub.

Alistair knee boarding.

Kyle on Jame's home made boat.

Warming up after playing in the lake.

About to try having 2 knee boarding and 3 wake boarding behind the boat - they did it too!

Missey and I hanging out on the tube!