Weekend in Clear Lake - August

Helping Grandma to celebrate her birthday

Another (extended) weekend, another fabulous time at a lake, this time at my lake within beautiful Riding Mountain National Park. As a child and into High School, I spent all or most of my summers at Clear Lake. Dave, who also has fond memories of the resort town, is as committed as I to create our own family tradition of  spending time at the Lake each year.

Playing with papa

We rented a friend's cabin, just outside of Onanole. It was my Grandma Johnson's birthday and we had a great dinner at a new restaurant, Siesta Cafe, which is co-owned by Dave's friend Vaughn, a former Winnipeger who now calls the area home with his growing family.

My Auntie Bonnie was visiting from Prince George, BC and it was a wonderful that she finally got to meet Ambrose. Auntie Darlene and Uncle Brian were in from Brandon and it was great to hear updates on their granddaughter, Claire, Ambrose's second cousin (the one with all of the hair for all you loyal blog readers!)

With Miss Jessie

My parents, Brytt and Miss Jessie came up for Saturday and we all spent the night together at the cabin. It was great fun and I hope we can do it again next summer!

Sloan and Ambrose

Later that weekend, we met up with Dave's friends Paul, Kelly and their two children Sloan and Alice. Ambrose loved the opportunity to play with an older kid but Alice out played them both by heading face first into the sand and eating it!

Alice, post self propelled face plant into the sand

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Swinging at the playground

Dave got to spend some QT with our mutual friend Ryan Murray. Unfortunately, we heard some unbelievable news from him: our friend Brad had a heart attack two weeks ago. He's 37, a vegetarian, a non-drinker, and a non-smoker. We are still in shock. He's back a home recovering. He has a wife, toddler and a baby.

Chloe (visiting from Ottawa), Luna and Ambrose

A shy Chloe with mom Maggie, an observant Luna and an excited Ambrose

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Blue Lake, Ontario - August Long weekend

We had a great time August Long camping at Blue Lake with friends Collin, Natasha and Luna (who is two months younger than Ambrose).

We traveled together in an old truck with a slide on camper pulling a small transport trailer. It was Ambrose's first time camping and sleeping in a tent.






Luna showed Ambrose how fun it is to play in the dirt and Ambrose showed Luna how to be a bit assertive while playing (read: how to shove babies out of the way when they are playing with toys you want or who are too close to mom).



The two made up a dynamic duo who charmed the fellow campers. They discovered that is a lot of fun to take chairs for a walk!

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384 Wardlaw now listed as one of Winnipeg's famous homes

Nerd alert....

I was successful in my request to have 384 Wardlaw added to the Manitoba Historical Society's list of famous Winnipeg homes.

In an earlier post, I wrote about our discoveries after we began to trace the genealogy of our home, specifically that two famous men - Hugh Northcote Baird and Duncan D Young - once lived here. This fact has now been added to their respective MHS bios.

Clearwater lake - visit with nana poppa

Last weekend (Fri-Tues) we rented a SUV and took a road trip up north. Despite the wall of fishflies on Easterville road (and running out of windshield wiper fluid - thank goodness for baby wipes) we arrived late late Friday evening at the lake. We could not have picked a better weekend. We enjoyed the sweltering heat, lakeside.

Ambrose loved the water (although he had a preference for being beside or on top of the water, not in it).
We enjoyed visits from the usual suspects and had some great QT with the grandparents.

Highlights included a boat ride on the ss minnow with poppa and beach time with nana.
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At Clearwater Lake, main beach

A look back: newborn Ambrose photo shoot

I looked back at our posts and I realized I did not create a picture gallery of Ambrose's newborn pictures. I recall being told at the time by other moms (experienced and new) that the newborn phase does not last long. Indeed, time is fleeting. Click here for picture gallery.