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Jour De Fete


I have been totally failing at taking pictures lately. Saturday was no exception. I didn’t take as many as I wanted to, unfortunately. 
We went to a festival called Jour De Fete in Ste. Genevieve. There were a lot of vendor booths, delicious smelling food, a few colonial reenactors, and some animals from the Wild Bird Sanctuary.
jour de fete 1
Ste. Genevieve really is a lovely place. I’d love to take pictures there sometime without all the crowds.
wooden fence with blue flowers

 

fence 2

 

boy holding apple

 

eagle

 

toddler boy at wild bird sanctuary

 

boy and baby sister

 

bird and trainer

 

The boys loved the snake. Kai got to help hold it because he told the girl that he was “very strong.” That was the highlight of the day for him.
boys and snake

 

boys with snake

And the highlight of the day for me? Ice cream. Because it’s not considered a good day until you have ice cream.

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Hunn house


There has been way too much sickness floating around at our house. Lots of coughing–which also adds to lots of trouble breathing for the boys. And it leaves me feeling totally unmotivated to do anything when we’re feeling like this.
Last week we were able to head down to my Grandma’s house for the afternoon. I didn’t take any pictures with the dslr, but I did get a few on my phone that I thought I would share. 
Her property is the best. The summer has been good to her yard–so green and beautiful!
grandmas pond

 

grandmas house

 

cute baby sitting by red and white shed

 

kids playing with chickens

 

toddler swinging on tire swing

 

firewood

 

black and white picture of girl on tree swing
 
Because I love taking pictures at her house, I started a hashtag on Instagram–#hunnhouse (her last name is Hunn) 
I hope to fill up that hashtag with many more pictures.
Also, lately, we’ve been taking a lot of videos. A session with lollipops last week and one with ice cream today. I’m pretty sure the kids are really annoyed that we keep handing them sweets and telling them to eat them. Horrible parents, we are 😉 
toddler with colorful sucker

 

toddler boy with rainbow sucker

We will be starting school pretty soon. Liam will be starting 1st grade and Kai wants to start Kindergarten. He is only 4–but he sees Liam learning and wants to do it too. So I will try to start him on Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Liam flew through that book and loved it so I’m hoping Kai will too. Liam is anxious to “do school.” So I need to get my act together so we can start. 
It’s so hard to believe the summer is ending! Bring on the cool weather, bonfires, scarves, and boots!