It's Summer!! ~ Durham Region Family Photographer

It has been a busy few weeks for us and yesterday was the last day of school! It is hard for me to believe that my daughter will be going into SK next year! I am already sweating a little at the thought of the next two months though. I know it will take a week or two to get into a groove of things with my soon to be 5 year old at home all week. She is a very active, smart, strong willed little girl who requires a lot to keep her busy and happy, and me on my toes. I am hoping to avoid the TV as much as possible this summer and to keep up on all the learning she did at school through a home reading and writing program of our own that we have been working on already. I have a little treasure chest set up for her as an incentive for when she completes her charts. She is already really excited for that and begging to see the dollar store treasures :). I also have lots of fun plans for this summer that I hope to follow through. Trips to local parks, the zoo, the ROM, camping, etc. I type this all while they are both sitting in front of the television, watching Madagascar II, lol... I know, I faltered already.

It has been a long and busy week for me. I have managed to complete all of the Crazy Baby Accessories and Sarita Baby mini session galleries to present today and tomorrow to clear off my plate for our camping trip this weekend. The beach is calling my name!!! The bugs can stay away though ;). It will be a nice kick off to our summer and really nice to celebrate Canada's birthday in the great out doors. The girls really love camping and can hardly wait!

Sigh....

Now to get packing. Here is a few pics from this mornings backyard adventures of the girls. It ended in screams and a nap, but it sure does look idyllic and fun to me :). Hopefully they will forget the little sibling rivalry when looking back at these photos.

Looking up into the trees is such a wonderful feeling on a warm, summers day. I let them each have a little of their candies from a party they were at on the weekend. I hope they will appreciate me when they are older as they rarely get to eat candy.

Here is Matt's father's day gift picked out by Madison. She saw it and had to have it, calling it "Gnomeo". Both girls were so proud to show it to him on father's day, along with a new garden we have been working on the past few weeks together. We just need to find a Juliet to go along with him for those evening rendezvous's in the garden ;).

We all wish you a safe and happy summer!!