Sunday, June 30, 2019

Road Trip and July 1st! (part one)

Warning, this was our epic summer trip so there
 will be numerous posts about this trip!!

So we are on our way to Revelstoke for 
our family road trip and amazing bucket list 
experience for Shane!  

Hang Gliding!  


But I'll get to that in future posts this was a
 week long trip full of super fun adventures!

Now some back story.  

Grandma Cathy turned 60 in march and 
decided that what she desperately wanted 
for her birthday was to go hang gliding 
and to take any of her kids 
who wanted to go.  

Think Shane can turn that down - never!

So it took all his will power to not be in charge of this trip.
I love him dearly but he has serious control issues,
especially when it comes to the outdoors.

There were numerous nights where I reminded him 
it wasn't his trip and he needed to just sit back 
and do his best to do what he was asked.

It was a great trip, and we found lots of ways 
to make sure our kids had as much 
awesome activity as Shane. 

Part ONE!

We packed up our stuff, LOTS of stuff, and got ready to hit the road!






Before we left every girl got her camp braids.
(They really didn't last long.)

Ms. V wanted three braids.


All squished in the back!


This girl apparently likes to travel in her swim suit!


Playing pass and play risk on dad's phone.

  
We're off!

 


Our first night of the trip we spent in Calgary with friends!
The same friends who let us stay with them before the funeral.
(They are awesome and we love them!!!)

We rolled into the city and had a great time visiting.

We got to stay in their tent trailer, 
and most of the kids had slumber parties inside.



The next day we had a crazy day in Kaninaskis,
the boys went biking and we waited 
around all day for them.

But that's in the next post!

Saturday, June 29, 2019

June Last day of school!

For the last few years the last day of school had been 
a crazy race to get out the door camping, 
or visit family in Southern Alberta.  

This year was a little different, 
we had all afternoon and evening.  
(so like 6 hours, haha.)  

Although I'm super looking forward to 
our camping trip and the kids 
NOT being in school, 
all the magic of things being actually finished 
could get washed up in prep to leave for 
an epic camping trip in BC with Grandma Cathy 
and Shane's Sisters.  

I sent the kids off with sorta smiles, hmmmmm. 







Those Braids, Ms. A did all by herself.
 
But after supper we took them all for a ride 

at the Devon Bike Park.




  


They love it there, even when they
have trouble growing up!

We went on a walk to help cheer her up, 
and got a chance to watch cotton fall, 
and found these alien looking mushrooms.  


I love our outdoor kids!