smokey smoke.

it isn't very nice in the okanagan right now. not only is it really smokey, the weather is bad. clouds. chance of showers. chance of thundershowers. YUCK! this isn't summer in the okanagan... well... the smoke is pretty normal. but i don't like it.

madelaine, caleb, and gabriel are visiting right now at my mom's. its fun. we went to o'keefe ranch yesterday. i hadn't been there in.. what feels like it could possibly have been a million years. haha. i love all the old furniture. and they have beautiful peacocks. i don't remember there being peacocks. and i also don't remember the sheep with 4 horns. its crazy looking! doug's kids are fun to be around. they are the cousins i know the best. although gabriel keeps telling me i look like a mom. and caleb says i am like a young aunt, and that the twins are like old cousins. haha.

we all went to the beach yesterday evening. packed tortelini pasta salad (pesto and fresh tomatoes... simplest thing, and so delicious). it was a nice way to end the day. the smoke cleared a little tiny bit. the earlier part of the day was a little bit cooler, i didn't really want to go to the beach then. that's why we did o'keefe, which is better to do when you get a cooler day. and then it warmed up. so after the ranch, we did the beach for dinner (makes sense, right?). rhiannon and madelaine came and slept over at my house after that. we didn't really get much of a chance to hang out though, because it was alright kinda late (and i had to get up at 5, as usual on sunday mornings - i also have to do it tomorrow). we got ice cream sandwiches, and watched a couple episodes of glee. i was tempted to watch a third (the lady gaga one is next... and that one is soooo funny), but i was super tired and went to bed.

also, the boys came home from their camping trip early. i WAS a little glad, because i missed tyler. and it was nice to have him home last night... although it was much cooler sleeping by myself, without the human heater.

i'm tired and REALLY wish i wasn't at work.

i took some pictures at o'keefe ranch yesterday. i'll see if i can manage to put them up somehow.