Playing with the children....

Davidson (or Harley as Lloyd is calling him already lol) seems to LOVE playing with the children :) he runs about and follows them and chases apples and follows trails of food. He is like a puppy compared to Charlie who is so much slower lol! Susie had him walking through the hoop again and again and he seemed to like that too :)

Our news :)

So this is our news :) It's probably not as big as all of you were expecting buts its big news for us and for Charlie especially :) Charlie has a new friend :) Please meet Davidson!!! Davidson has come to live with us all the way from......Leduc!!! :) lol :) We drove over to get him this evening and instantly fell in love with this darling little fellow :)

Isn't he cute? He's TINY compared to Charlie!

He's 6 months old and weighs about 40lbs. He's housetrained and such a sweetie pie! So cute to look at! Reminds me a lot of how Charlie looked when we got her! A lady on LP contacted us last week and asked us if we were interested in rehoming a piggy because her Sister had a pig that needed a new home. We were away at the time so we asked if we could wait until this week.

We've been looking for a friend for Charlie for a while now so this worked out perfectly! Tonight we finally made it over to Leduc to meet Davidson and bring him home :) He got back here and ad a nose around the front yard. He finished off Abigails apple and had fun playing with the children with a hoop.

We introduced him briefly to Charlie - but we want to do this very gradually over the next few days. He did meet Jasper though who looked stunned at how small Charlie was all of a sudden :)

I hope Charlie and Davidson get along well - we'll spend the next few days introducing them to each other gradually and spending time increasing the time they are together until they can be together all of the time. I don't want to just put them together straight away though in case there is any problem/ jealousy/ bullying or anything. there is such a size difference right now and Davidson is still very much a baby so he is sleeping inside in the mudroom right now and has his own bed and his blanket etc etc that he came with so he will feel at home.

It's been a busy day and I am so very tired now - I'm off to bed :) a new cat in the family and now a new piggy :) my parents always joke that with 5 children and all these animals, this place is a total zoo.......I guess they are right :)

Charlie, you've shrunk!!!!

Photo Shoot....

This afternoon I was booked to do a photo shoot in our community. I'm the Community League Photographer so whenever there is an event in the community I go along and photograph it for the League - for the website, for the scrapbook albums that the League keeps, for the display cases in the hall and for various other reasons.

They booked me several weeks ago to go along and take pictures today of the Summer camp. They said that they had (and I quote) 'A couple of Grandprix cars coming out from the races'.

Turns out this was 'a few cars coming out from Edmonton Raceway'!! Slightly different!!! But nevertheless, the children were thrilled and we had a great afternoon. I was a little disappointed not to spend an afternoon with sexy racing drivers - our drivers turned out to be 12 and 14 years old!!! But the kids loved that! So I guess that was good! W4e all got given free tickets to go to the races in August so I came away with a free family night out in August which is great!

I was there to take pictures of the daycamp kids meeting the drivers and sitting in the cars which I did, then we took group pictures in front of the three cars, they all got autographs, then they drove the cars down to the lake and we took individual pictures of each kid with their favourite car and it's driver with the lake behind.

Two hours in the sunshine, with the playground there, some great cars, the great team from Edmonton raceway who were sooooo friendly and helpful! It was just a GREAT afternoon!!! I took my youngest 4 with me and got some pictures and of them too :) and took some pictures of some of the daycamp leaders there too. A couple of other Moms came by with their kids and asked me to take some pictures of their kids too which I did - it was a nice afternoon - busy and hot but fun :)

I came back home, edited all the pictures and got them emailed back to the leaders 20 minutes early which surprised me :) I thought it would take longer!

So no sexy racing drivers and no Grandprix cars lol but the kids were happy and I got some fun pictures and Sam got to see Macks new paint job AND some cars with stickers instead of headlights!!!

Snapshots.....

The boys and the cars and Sam with Mack who has had a paint job since the movie and is now white :)

My little racing car driver!!

VROOM VROOM!!!!!!!!!

:)