Another beautiful wedding weekend!

This Friday July 18th Rene's (my husband) cousin Tessa, married her sweetheart of eight years, Mike Pascoe. The wedding and reception took place at the Bay of Quinte Counrty club, here in Belleville. This is very fitting as Mike is a BIG TIME golfer and I have heard, a very good one at that! Their colours were chocolate brown and green, great combination! The bridesmaid dressed in adorable lace overlay brown dresses and the groomsmen adorned green button down shirts with light brown dress pants. Tessa's flowers were green spider mumms which is a little funny because Tessa is unbelievably afraid of spiders! It was an evening ceremony and cocktail reception. Tessa is a junk food fanatic so she had a Ben and Jerry's ice cream buffet and a candy bar. Great choice in my books! I think the highlight of the night, other than the wedding itself, was the first dance. Mike and Tess started out with a traditional dance then they broke into a "Rock the Reception"dance. This is when the music switches to some more hip tones and the bride and groom do a choreographed dance routine including the famous "sprinkler", shopping cart, and kung fo fighting to name a few. It was priceless! They did a fantastic job! Did I mention that Tess was a drama teacher! Very fitting for her!

It was a very anjoyable evening!

All the best guys!

I love weddings!

This past weekend, my cousin Michelle and her boyfriend Jeff of nine years got married. I love weddings and what a beautiful wedding it was! It took place at west Zwicks Island, here in Belleville and the sun was shinning! Michelle was a gorgous bride and always had a huge smile on her face. I could tell she was so happy to be marrying the love of her life. Michelle arrived in a horse drawn carrage very Cinderella like. Her colours were chocolate brown and almost a teal blue. The bridesmaid looked wonderful and the groomsman were corodinating perfectly in their brown tuxes. This was the second wedding Shelyn and Carson attended with us. Theor first wedding was Michelle's sister Tara's , three years ago and they were both in it. They really enjoyed getting new outfits and watching Michelle walk down the isle. They only stayed for the ceremony because we told them the party afterwards was only for adults. They didn't mind because their friend Danielle was watching them for the evening and they have a blast with her.

Next weekend is wedding number two of the season. Tessa and Mike and I can't wait. It will be another beauty!

summer time

Wow, it is July 9th already! It seems that summer takes so long to arrive but once it is here, time flys. We have had a busy summer already. Camping with friends, summer BBQ's in our backyard, play dates, birthday parties and beautiful weddings. What a wonderful season! The July long weekend we had the pleasure of camping with our good friends , Shawn, Corrie, Tyler and Caylie Closs. This is an annual adventure for us. Usually we camp at one of Ontario's beautiful provincal parks but we were a little late organizing and didn't get into the parks on our list so we decided to try a private park a little closer to home. We found a FANTASTIC park called Cobourg East Campgrounds located 5mins from the town of Cobourg. A very clean, well maintained park with lots of activities to do. The kids enjoyed swimming in the pool, going for bike rides, playing in the park, walking through the river and taking part in their WONDERFUL Canada Day festivites. I would highly recommend this park. A very enjoyable stay!

On Canada Day, we usually spend the afternoon with "Silly Papa"(Rene's dad) to celebrate his birthday. Yes he is a Canada Day baby who was born in the USA. But this year Nana and Papa were in Chicago at a friends wedding so we missed our afternoon together but were able to wish him a Happy Birthday when he returned.