today

Alana has a personal shopper: Ellie! Her hand-me-downs are the cutest!

Summer is good. Donuts are good - friends are good! Today we met some good friends down at Granville Island and had an amazing morning. The kids played and played, I caught up with friends and all of us ate donuts. Growing up, every now and then a box of Lee's donuts would show up on the table, and I remember frequenting the shop when we were little, if and when my parents could get all of us downtown and find a parking spot for the behemoth Suburban. (Did we only go there for donuts? Maybe.) I was halfway wishing that the kids would go into donut-eye comas and I could browse the cute shops and glutton myself with more donuts and friend time, but it was not to be (the parking wasn't forever-free either). The remainder of the half-dozen I bought are lying in freezer-wait - power for our Sunday trip to the bigger, more easterly Vancouver Island.

DONUTS

playing with vintage little people - LOVE the old toys... love love love

backyard shadows on late afternoons: morning activity and afternoons at home - our sched so far

Tomorrow we get to visit with Steve's cousin Rod and his family (Colleen, Kai and Nyla); they're coming here en route to the Sunshine Coast, and hopefully I'll have time to motor down to Dundarave to get some croissants and coffee. Oh! And sadly there are no pictures as proof, but we spent ALL day yesterday with Auntie Sarah (how did we not snap any pho-tos?!), and it was awesome. The kids love her - Hendrik got some good wrestle time in, and she came home with dinos and dino books - the best? The best! We had a few (as in two) afternoon G&Ts, and more than a few (as in muchos-many) great sister catch-ups and it was fab. Bed late, up early, full day and let's do it again tomorrow!!