Cute Kids, Canada Day, and the 4th

So our main season is about half over already, which is hard to believe. It's finally starting to get hotter here, so we've been pretty spoiled with mid-70s and blue skies. Not much news to report other than things are going well. I'm searching for a job for this fall and am finding only a few things here and there thus far, since not many jobs are posted yet for the area that I'm interested in.

Canada Day was a bit last-minute in its preparations, but it went well and was a good time, with the whole house out on the porch being merry. The 4th of July snuck up on us it seemed, but it went well. It was a long and busy day at the fort, but it's always fun. After fireworks that night, some of us went out for ice cream and went to the fabulously awful Haunted Theatre (thank goodness we get in for free!) before finally crashing that night. I saw the new "Pirates" movie and was a bit disappointed, to be honest. It was good, but still a bit too much at times. Johnny Depp is always fantastic. Jenny and I also dressed up as pirates for the movie, which made the entire thing worth it anyway.

Btw, Katie and I have started a new blog dedicated to determining the best-looking president ever (a much more difficult question, as most of them tend to be rather plain or goofy-looking rather than purely physically attractive), though it's still under much development (more details on the site, which is linked on both of our blogs). This summer is flying by! Things are busy, but good!

(photos: Me, Jenn, and two of the world's cutest kids that volunteered with us in the Biddle; Katie, Heather, and Lee with maple leaf-shaped jello on Canada Day; Katie and Fr. Rey celebrating Canada Day with our fantastic wagon decked out for the occasion; and Jenny, me, and Katie with the wagon and the house.)





(photos: Jenny and Carolyn "working" on the 4th; raising the humungous garrison flag on the 4th; the 12oz cannon salute (as compared to the normal 3oz charge); the crafties at the upper gun platform (Carolyn, Nicole, Jenny, me, crafty-in-trainging Lily, Jenn, Amy, and Maria); and the crafties after the 4th.) **Thanks to Katie C. for the photos of the 4th!!!