Rockin Girls, Hermione, Blueberries,The Beach and Hens!

My friend Rebecca has tagged me as a Rockin' Girl blogger. Thanks girlie you made my day (:! Rebecca is a wonderful and very talented online chum. She has had a bit of a rough go lately but everything is coming together for her. You can see her wonderful work here :http://itsthelittlethings-rcb.blogspot.com/ If you have not heard about this then you can read about where it started from here :http://www.robertaferguson.com/2007/06/18/why-not-start-something/The way this award works is that I have to pass it on to 5 bloggers so here goes:
1) My extremely "groovy" and very fabulous friend Holly. Not only is she a talented artist and writer but an inspiration to live a much more simplified and planet friendly life. We have shared some fabulous artistic times together. You can read more about her here: http://groovyholly.blogspot.com/
2) Another fabulous altered artist and someone who I am so proud to call friend is Ang. She truly RAWKS with her fabulous creations and I love how 'real" this gal is. There is not an ounce of fake in this girl. :http://altermyworld.typepad.com/ang/
3) Next is my very deserving online chum Lisa. She is incredibly sweet and I think one of my longest online buddies at least 4 years now? Maybe longer! She has had a bit of a hard time lately but things are also looking up for her and she hung in therehttp://jamlrise.wordpress.com/
4) Another very kind lady who is soon to be mom to child number 2. Who always has a kind word to say and is truly just a nice nice person, TraceyT http://www.tailoredpages.blogspot.com/
5) Last but certainly not least another sassy mini cooper driving lady Chelle. I really enjoy reading her posts and love seeing her layout creations.http://mycrazyworlddivine.blogspot.com/

This is a photo of Paige all dressed up as Hermione for the Chapters Harry Potter book release party she had so much fun getting all her clothes ready to be the perfect Hermione although she insisted on wearing her black strappy sandals with heals. I am thinking that is not quite what Hermione would wear but then this Hermione is much more girlie I think! Waun always loves taking photos of her in character so this is her peaking around the corner waiting to cast a magical spell I gather. It did turn out well! They had a load of fun at the book release and she did all the activities including making a wand, planting magic potter seeds etc enough to earn herself a certificate of wizardry anyways! It is proudly sitting on our fridge. We are going to finally go see the new Harry Potter movie this Saturday evening after Waun finishes work. I am so excited I admit it I am a huge Harry Potter geek but that is not such a bad thing!

We went Blueberry picking on Sunday with our friends Ton and Denise and the kids had lots of fun. We each picked a huge pail full of those yummy berries in no time and the kids had lots of fun finding the biggest Berries. I may have been hit a few times here and there with those magical flying blueberries. I have absolutely no idea how that happens apart from the fact that they were coming from the direction of Waun and Denise. I cannot blame Tom as he was too busy taking photos so it had to be those two as our children are far too good to do such a thing!

Finally after a meander through the glorious country side we hit the dairy freeze for a quick ice cream pit stop before hitting Seacliff Beach in Kingsville. It was such a fantastic day and even though the kids did not have their bathing suits with them they decided to paddle out into the lake.
I was waiting for Paige to just dunk right in and it did not take long! The kids had a blast once Paige and Holly convinced April to get in to! I cannot think of a better way to spend a day than
with good friends on a glorious day playing in the water and digging for treasure in the sand.

Finally to round the day off we scrounged around in the vehicles for something dry for the kids to wear and came up with Wauns extra work shirts which they girls wore as dresses. The looked lovely in them!

We had to go to Amherstburg to Paige's friend Aprils house to help her Dad move something. They have a nice lot of property out in the county and raise all sorts of fun domestic ducks and chickens. The girls had a blast chasing them around and Paige fell in love with this little one, I think its a hen?. All the way home she asked if we could raise some! I told her if we ever move to the country we would think about it!

So that was our weekend and this week has been pretty uneventful so far. Looking forward to tomorrow being Friday because that's one day closer to seeing Harry Potter!