Beautiful!!!

Wow! We have the most gorgeous view we've ever had camping!! We are at a campground, just outside of Salmon Arm, B.C. on the Shuswap Lake. The campground is very quiet, which is what we were hoping for!! We're 1 row back from the lake, with no one in front of us. The lake, mountains, hills, etc. surrounding us are so pretty. Absolutely gorgeous :) Only downfall is the train tracks behind the campground! Well, I should say only downfall for the adults, Blake is absolutely thrilled with all the choo-choo's he's seeing! Today he saw 5 engines!! We've had a nice time here in Salmon Arm. We arrived Tuesday morning, it was a short 1 hour drive from Kamloops. The weather has been nice overall, it rained off and on on Wednesday and it's been between +15 and +24 during the day. Nice for a group of people who don't really enjoy extreme heat! We visited an amazing indoor jungle gym on Wednesday and of course we had to hit up a fruit stand - SO yummy!! We checked out the local mall as well and spent lots of time digging in the sand! Blake loves playing on the beech and splashing on the shore. Today he had jeans and running shoes on and decided to go wading in the water! What a mess ... but he was having a blast! Emerson was feeling a lot better, but this evening I think she seems to be getting uncomfortable again. I hope tomorrow she'll have a big diaper full!!! Tomorrow morning we're leaving the Shuswaps for an overnight stay in Banff. From Banff we're heading to Candace and Brandon's house for Sunday and Monday night. We're visiting Lindsey, Andrew and baby Parker, going to the zoo and hopefully stopping at the new outlet mall north of Calgary! Home on Tuesday. It will be sad to be done our vacation, but nice to be home on the other hand. The kids have been awesome. Everyone seems to think I'm a bit hard on them, and I admit I am, but hey, what can I say?! I am, who I am!! Camping with just Blake was a piece of cake, camping with a 2 yr old and a 6 month old is not as easy, but they make it pretty darn good :) Thankfully Emerson is not waking up at 4 and 5 am, like she did in Saskatchewan! They're both sleeping in, phew! It has been so nice having my parents with us. I think Blake is going to go through Bampa and Bamma with drawl come Sunday when we go our separate ways!!! He enjoys riding in their truck with them and doing all sorts of fun things! We are so blessed to have such wonderful parents :)

We hope everyone is having a great week, have a good weekend and we'll "talk" to you when we're back home!

xoxo Cal, Tracy, Blake and Emerson