A Wonderful Family Road Trip

Last Friday evening we packed up the Escape and headed to the trailer for the night. ( by the way if anyone is wondering our trailer is about 1 1/2 hours away from home) we took a season pass for a provincial park for the summer.
We enjoyed a lovely family evening. Campfire, a little junk food, a little crochet by the fire,
and then tucked in early to bed, as we were getting up pretty early for our annual family road trip.
Saturday morning we were up at 7, packed the escape once again, and packed up a little breakfast for us. We left the park and had muffins,and orange juice on the way. We drove about a hour or so to the town of Grand falls. It is a border town with Hamlin Maine. They have the nicest Farmers Market there. We filled up on fresh goodness of honey, kale, a few candles, a new doggie blanket for Frannie, and soap.
Then it was off to giant tigar and the country decor store.
We went for coffee, and shopped for back to school items at Walmart. Bought new cordless phones and then headed to the city of Edmudston. After having to pull over for a terrible rain storm we made it there. We had a picnic lunch of wraps, subs, cookies, juice, and garnola bars. We shopped at all the local shops, and enjoyed the little city. We went to Walmart there, and then to the pet store. We made our last stop in edmudston at the mall,and Jill got to ride the elephant.

 before grabbing a cool treat at Mac Donald's and hitting the highway for Quebec.
We drove through Quebec to where they had a government ferry dock. We decided to wait for the ferry to come in and see where it led to. After waiting a while I went to the little resturant next door that over looked the harbour to find out more. Unfourtally the ferry was docked on the other side and was not in service at the moment. :(
We continued on our journey, and after a couple hours of diving and viewing some of the most beautiful country side of farms, we arrived in Rumoski. We visited a information station to get directions and to see what this big city had to offer. They had it all but unfourtally again we were to late. We had 10 minutes and everything was closing. ( in Quebec everything closes at 5 on Saturdays)
So we headed out of the city and drove to Amqui where I had visited with the children on a road trip a little while back. We stopped for supper, gas up and headed back home.
We arrived home around 1030 and were all pretty tired. But I must we all enjoyed the family time together.
Sunday afternoon after everything was done around the house and the farm, the girls and I decided to head back up to the trailer for the night as the weather was so nice., And Monday was a holiday here.( provincial holiday)We did and we had a wonderful evening. Camp fire, had a lovely chat with the neighbours who just got up there for the month. ( same couple as last year)
Roasted marshmellows and made s'mores, had pizza, nachos, and garlic fingers, watched amazing  storm cloud show move in over the mountains.

Then the thunder and lightening put on a real good show before we had to move in for the night.
We tucked in with bee movie, and the rain poured so hard.
We went to bed and slept like babies. We woke up at 1030 YEP! That's right....1030.....it felt great....

We had a campfire breakfast and the girls went and played around while I sat by the ire a d read my newest country sampler magazine, and crocheted,and sipped on my coffee. Very relaxing day. We headed down at supper time and can't wait to do it again  tomorrow.

A Great Ending To Our Roadtrip

We had a wonderful trip away. We visited 2 lovely farmers markets, shopped at a great mall,Justin bought his very first laptop with his own money.

 went to loads of flea markets, and just had a great time spending time with my family.

Yes we all had a relaxing and fun time.

Here's to another great Family Vacation Road Trip.........

Family Road Trip Part 2

After lunch we went to the Village of Grand falls to see the sights. The falls and gorge are amazing.

They even have a Zip line now that runs over the falls. The line ups for this is crazy and I think the people are too. (Justin wanted to go and become crazy as well,but there was no way I was letting him)

Our next stop was for a mcflurry at Mc Donalds.

MMMMMMM! they were so yummy.

We then visited a beautiful huge pset store called  Frisky Pet Shop. http://www.friskypetshop.com/
This was the most cleanest neatest pet store we have ever been in. (for a small town it had more of a variety then the big cities.)
next we hopped in the jeep and headed towards the town of St. Leonard.

It is a small border town but has the cutest little shops.

After a some fun shopping and treats we headed back to the cottage for supper.
After supper we all went for a walk down through the streets of Plaster rock.

The weeones had a ball running around and playing in the park.

YEP! they really stand up to there name!

We ran over to the store to pick up some popcorn,

This deer was outside the store and the girls thought he was just the cutest thing ever.


We headed back to the cottage to relax in our PJ's and watch a movie.

RIO was a great movie for the whole family, before tucking in for good night's sleep.

Family Road Trip Part 1

Were all home safe and sound. We had a great trip and had beautiful weather as well.
We headed out early Friday morning, after loading up the jeep.

I forgot to take a pic before we headed out

But this is really kinda what we did look like though. 

We made one pee stop along the road, and also to let the weeones change into there cloths as they left in there jammies. about 2 hours in, as we took a tree hour remote road through to save on time. 

We stopped at Hubby's Aunt to say Hello, unfortunately we had to just leave a letter as there was no one home. We came home to a message on the machine wishing they new that we were passing through.

We arrived in Plaster Rock at noon and headed straight  to the grocery store

What a great little super market

We filled our carts with some fruits and veggies, and dairy. 

(Things that we did not want to travel with)

We checked in to our cottage that was located at the local Motel

We unpacked and unloaded everything and ate lunch that we had packed.

They girls made themselves right at home.(Of course) 

right down to the dresser.

Our cottage was very nice. Loads of room, 

Even a washer and dryer (which was great for coming home with a clean suitcase full of cloths)

The master bedroom was also very roomy with a great built in wall for our suitcase.

After taking a bit of a break we headed out to do some sightseeing in near by villages.

Countdown to Our family Road Trip

Only1 days left before we head out.

We  have begun to pack, cook and clean the jeep out. The Weeones are so excited . The girls have packed there travel bags and Justin has charged all his devices. The Weather is suppose to be great for the weekend. 

I want to wish you all a great weekend, and I am not to sure we will have internet so I will not be able to blog until we get back home.

Preparing For Our Family Road Trip

We are less then a week away till we leave for our annual Family road trip. The excitement is brewing in our home, as we are all looking forward to going.
With a family of five and having a yard full of livestock there is so much preparing to do.
There is always the planning of where we will stay. This year we have booked a cottage at a motel that we have stayed at before.
We are planning our meals as we do not want to spend all our money on food. With having a cottage with a cottage it allows us to make our own meals. I will spend a good part of Wednesday and Thursday making a pasta salad,beef fried mac, rice, rolls, a breakfast dish, sandwiches,and subs,and cookies,and brownies.
Friday night's supper........ chicken wings,rice,beef fried mac, and rolls. brownies for desert.
Breakfast Saturday .......... Breakfast cassorole with toast and Jam.
Saturday Lunch...... sandwiches and subs, pasta salad and cookies for desert.
Fruit for snacking
Saturday supper...... Take out at a old fashioned take out that we have ate at a few times now and it is delish.....
Sunday morning cereal, toast left over rolls, and fruit.
Lunch on the way home, sandwiches and any left overs.
We are planning to visit a couple of Farmer's Markets, a mall, the gorge on a boat tour, and some op shopping.
Now this week is packing, preparing the barns, getting the help everything they might need for the weekend.
I will be taking loads of pictures throughout the trip and will blog lots when we get back.

A Thrifty Thursday

We had a good long weekend. The weather was not to bad, and we got a lot of yard work done.
This week was a normal one with HB working, Justin away working down the road for the neighbours. Having to keep a eye on my Mother next door. We are having some trouble with her as she is under a lot of meds and thinks she can do a whole lot more then she can. (I know how she feels after always being a  independent person until now) She is a risk of fall and had fallen a few times since being home from the hospital. She refuses to take any extra help from the outside with Home workers,so it has been very hard on my Father and my family.
 This morning I got her settled in with a little help from a friend of hers,and the girls and I took off to the city for some much much needed girl time. (I have missed that soooooo much)
We were only away for a short time and only did one strip mall (of course the one with the Dollarstore) While there we found some great buys.
I bought a new Handbag

It came from the cutest little shop with a sorts of hand beaded things.
The best part it was in the sale bin for only $2.99

I also bought these great flip flop shoes to go with it at one of my favorite clothing stores "Reitmans"  http://www.reitmans.com/

These were only $6.99

After getting these great deals we headed over to the Dollarstore to get some cloths hangers and pins, while there Jill found a whole lot of Tangled sticker fun. 

She got them all and did very well shopping with her own little pocket money. She loves Tangled so much.

We got some baking goods as well, but Jayne found the best deal with some cupcake toppings.

HOW FUN! these are going to be.

These were only $1.50

We bought a few other things,and Jayne bought her and Jill some junk for the ride home. All in all it was a great morning with the girls.

Road Trip

On Saturday afternoon HB came home from cutting the fields,and the temps were high in the 30's. He asked if we would like to go on a little road trip to friends of ours about 2 hours away, as he had to drop off a few things and pick up some stuff with the truck.
We were all pretty excited as it had been awhile since we did any trips together with the whole family since my Mother had gotten sick.( I always had to stay behind) So we packed up the cooler and headed out.
Jill decided to sit up front with Jerry and I while the other 2 sat in the back.

We were all pretty cozy. Jill loves her pick sunglasses.

 Jayne loves her Doritos chips.

Justin  sang most of the way.

Then after eating of that junk they all settled down and had so good games on their DS's.
I read a bit and talked to HB.
We had a really nice visit at our friends. They Dan always had the neatest stuff there. He is a big antique collector,and is always building new building to house his stuff in. We enjoy seeing whats new every time we get to go. Ann had a lovely bread that I got the recipe for and will share later this week.
After a little while we were back on the road again. Before leaving the city Dad promised the weeones a trip to DQ(dairy queen) for a treat.
Can you guess what color slushies the girls got?

We decided to take the old mine road home,which runs right through the middle of nowhere in the woods. It was so nice. We saw foxes,rabbits,and this deer.

It was so calm and tame it almost came right up to the truck.
After half way through we came across the spring falls where everyone comes to get good drinking spring water. We stopped so that the weeones could fill their bottles.

After playing in the water for a bit and cooling down , we drove a bit more.

We stopped one more time and the weeones ran around and burned off some of that sugar.

We headed on our way and came out at my in-laws for another visit. My mother in law is a green thumb as well,so we had a lovely visit and tour of the gardens. 

Jill went to her pond looking for her pet fish.

The girls loved playing in the flowers

Nanny's dog Willy was very happy to see everyone as well.

All in all we had another nice visit. The flowers are beautiful 

She even has a good sense of humor. 

We headed out towards home with the sun coming down and a truck full of tired weeoens. What a great day!