The unofficial end of summer is approaching...

And it seems like just yesterday that school was ending for the summer and now we are days away from Jenna starting Kindergarten and Miranda going back to Preschool.  Both girls seem pretty excited about starting school again and I am excited to see Jenna in her little uniform.  Our Baby Jenna is growing up!! 

We have been enjoying the last few weeks by taking a few boat trips and celebrating Jenna's 5th birthday.  Our first excursion since I last posted was to Poets Cove on South Pender Island in British Columbia.  The marina was on the small side and very quiet and picturesque.  The girls enjoyed playing in the pool and looking for baby crabs on the beach.  We would turn over the rocks on the beach and find many little crabs scurrying away.  Miranda was not afraid of them at all and started picking them up and talking to them.  She loved them so much that she insisted on walking one back to the boat to keep it.  She held the little crab between her 2 fingers for the entire walk back to the boat.  We set it up in a container and she kept checking on it and taking it out to play with it.  Unfortunately, little crab didn't survive, but that didn't stop Miranda from wanting to go find more!  There was also a large rock wall on one side of the marina and we were able to see many purple and red starfish.  They were really pretty!  While we were at Poets Cove, Jenna turned 5.  We were able to sneak her presents on board so she was surprised on the morning of her birthday.  












Can you tell that "cruising" rocks us all to sleep???


Before we left for Poets Cove we invited our neighbors over for cake to celebrate Jenna's birthday.  Everyone seemed to have a nice time and the kids all enjoyed playing with the Legos Jenna received as a gift.

We spent this past weekend at a neat place called Rosario Resort and Spa on Orcas Island.  Their was a neat old mansion on the property that was built in the early 1900's that you were able to tour and see the original rooms on the second floor.  There was a huge music room with an amazing pipe organ.  The resort is actually going up for auction and will be closed as of October 10th to allow the new owners to do the renovations they have in mind.  It will be neat going back to compare the before and afters.  There were a few deer that roamed the grassy areas around the resort and they were so friendly!  We were able to hand feed them apples!  Of course the girls were petrified!!!!  We are looking forward to our next excursion and seeing some neat places over the fall.