Weekend

The football season kind of takes over our life for the months of June through to November, and I've made my peace with the fact that we won't have summer vacations for as long as Keith is playing football. During the summer Keith does get one week off during which we normally go back to Alberta to visit our families, but this year the schedule is particularly difficult and Keith's bye week doesn't actually allow for a full weekend, just Monday to Friday off. All of his days off are otherwise scheduled for Sundays or Mondays. 

So! I was super excited when we found out that this week's post-game meetings and run-downs had been moved over to Friday and freed up Saturday resulting in an ENTIRE WEEKEND off (yes that deserved capital letters). We decided to go up camping near Saskatoon and while we were up go see the progress on our house. Our future home is being built up in Hague and then once it's all done they load it up on a big truck and move it down and plop it onto the basement (terrifying process if you ask me).

I was a verrrrrrry happy camper. 

 

  
Nova got to sleep in the tent with us for the very first time. The first night she spent pretty much on top of my legs. Foamies are much more comfortable than the ground. Only makes sense. The second night she slept between us on Keith's sleeping bag for most of the night.  


On Saturday we had our first encounter using truck stop showers went and visited the house (who wants to be stinky on a momentous occasion such as seeing your house for the first time?). I am in love. Love love love. 

Driving to Zak's. I was kinda excited. 

 

 

Welcome to the Shologans!

 

Please note Keith's expression as he watches me gush and take pictures of evvvvverything. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing there in the linen closet. I've never had a linen closet before.

 I looooooove our big log post!! One of my most favorite things of the entire house. 

I am absolutely ecstatic to live in that house. I'll have to take a trip up probably in August to bring up our cooktop and hopefully the ceiling, cabinets, floors, and maybe even my paint (!) will be almost done by then. My impatience is mounting. I gaze out our north facing windows right now and dream of the kind of light our future house with its big wall of south facing windows will let in. Insert a wistful sigh here. We spent a bunch of time at the house, with me running around taking pictures (with my phone, a half decent camera with a lens is definitely on my wish list) and before we knew it we had to leave again... :( 

Byyyye house..... See you soon. 

Keith picked up an appearance in Saskatoon for Saturday afternoon. I spent the two hours hanging around the parking lot with Nova and decided to get my hair cut for the first time since December. In the past two years I've only been to the hair salon... twice. I've been trying so desperately to grow it out and usually just trim it myself at home. But it was nice to go spend half an hour and let someone who knew what they were doing take care of the mess that is my hair.  

Nova waiting patiently. 

On the way back to the campsite I got one of my favorite roadtrip treats:

Keith doesn't understand why (and neither do I really), but I love to put these in the fridge (or cooler or outside or anywhere cold) before I eat them. Amazing! Between this and having my fingers stained orange from Cheesies I think we made the best of our time in the vehicle.

We spent the afternoon canoeing Blackstrap Lake (no pictures, I forgot a camera and Keith wouldn't let me take my phone!) and in the evening we cooked camp food and marshmallows.

Potatoes, onions, celery, carrots, and butter wrapped in tin foil and cooked over the fire - delicious!

By the time Sunday morning rolled around we were all tired. Nova does the cutest thing when she doesn't want to wake up where she tries to cover her eyes with her paws.  I caught a little bit of it. 

We were able to get on the lake again with the canoe before we left, and then it was home time. 

A weekend well spent.