EYES CLOSED

What’s meant to be will always be though I control my destiny

I am struggling to find a better way to start this post rather than "this weekend was awesome", but it WAS, so I am going with it, deal with it.

We shucked the pups up to the "Lake House" on Friday night where I met up with my mom and left Colin behind for boys weekend!

Mom and I hung out drinking wine and chatting, gossiping and chasing after puppies that were pretty excited about all the space they were able to run around in.
The house was pretty empty as they are moving next week, so it was a little weird being there, and still hasn't sunk in that, it was my last trip to 100 Dill street. The next 1-2 years will be really weird while they re-build the lake house, but once it is complete it is going to be pretty amazing, the property alone leaves me speechless.
Saturday mom and I continued our time together with a visit from a fortune teller, which was a lot of fun - I really enjoy that kind of stuff for fun, although I am not sure how much I believe it, but it is fun to see if anything she said will happen, really will happen - the great part is, she had a lot of wonderful things to say about my future, so I am not complaining.
Afterward we hit the road to take over boys weekend! Well, technically we were attending JJ's Surprise Birthday party, all the girls and the rest of the family met up and we drove up to the cottage with horns blazing, cars decorated with balloons and streamers, and yes, JJ was very surprised!

I spent most of the party glued to my favorite niece (ok technically my only niece) Lexy and enjoying everyone telling me how awesome Colin is, and how well he fit in, even if they don't want to invite him again next year (kidding), see he won at everything, including poker and some how managed to make a basket playing horse while sitting on a chain fence...still not sure I believe it. ha ha
Mom and I spent another evening catching up with some drinks before calling it quits around 130am.
Sunday, we spent the morning on the dock and by the pool before heading over early to the Lake house to enjoy the sunshine before Colin and I made our way back to London.
The pups were great all weekend, and I absolutely loved having them be free to run around all day.
After our trek home we went to visit mama and papa Turnbull who so graciously gave us a air conditioner! Ran some errands and purchased a new fish! Welcome "Walter" to our family! *Carlos died on Friday :(
All in all, a superb weekend, to which I know I am leaving a ton out. But for the purpose of this post, I am sure you get the gist of it!

Maybe that's what happens When a tornado meets a volcano

I guess in our case it is more like "when a volcano meets a sweet summer breeze" can you guess which one is me and which one is Colin? Ha ha.

Anyway, I digress...
I am currently so obsessed with the song "Love the way you lie" and while I was searching for it on You Tube, I found this video which is a montage of "The Vampire Diaries" set to "Love the way you lie" * cue 14 year old girl squeals of delight*
So, I figured why not share this with the rest of the blogger world.
Enjoy lovelies, enjoy.

Home is wherever we are if there is love here too...

This summer is off to a pretty rad start. Including, but not limited to:

* Our new family member Lily
*Camping
*Beaching
*Family gatherings out the eyeballs
*Muskoka weekends
*Toronto days
* Jack Johnson Concert
*Patios/Winks
*Joe Kools Dancing with the greatest group of people imaginable
* The fact that there is so much more to come...
and the exciting way we plan on ending the summer for the September long weekend!

Our New Family member!

Please welcome LILY!

It seems to most this seems pretty random for us to get a new puppy out of the blue, but to be honest we have been looking for another dog since we started dating really. We have been keeping our eyes peeled for a long time, and come close a few times, but the timing or the breed just weren't right. Sunday night after our fabulous camping trip, we sifted through kijji and there she was 10 week old "Lily" the Boston Terrier Bulldog cross (she also has pug and collie in there somewhere) and we feel in love with her, she was everything we discussed we wanted and more, so we contacted the owner and went from there. Truly we didn't really expect much, and then just like that, Monday night we were scrambling our way to Westmount to pick her up!

We brought her home last night and introduced her to Ella and aside from being a tad territorial at times, things are going pretty well. Fortunately the family that had her before us also had a small dog, so she learned to stand up for herself pretty well. She isn't aggressive at all, she just knows when to let Ella know that enough is enough. Lily has a pretty laid back, sweet personality and I am confident they will be lovely playmates and sisters in no time.

The family that had her before us, also did a wonderful job crate training Lily which is helping a lot. I must say having Colin around this time around with a puppy makes life a lot easier -and I can already tell that Lily has Colin's heart!

So, here we go on a new adventure together, wish us luck!