Summer with friends

We have had a great summer hanging out with our friends.  Here are some pictures of what we've been doing.

We went to the field near our house and played soccer with the neighbors grandkids.  That was a bug net on my head, the sandflies were really bad.  We played soccer the day before and Kali improved so much.

Kali played with these wonderful girls when we were in Edmonton.

 This is our camper van, Tessa and I took the kids to Elkwater provincial park for the day.

 And we got ice cream.

Here are the kids LOVING the van, they had so much fun.

My friend Eliza came to visit Medicine Hat, I loved it.  Her son is so cute. This is at the park by the leisure centre.

 This is my friend Scotia, just downing Spencer's Rootbeer.

Cousin Teagan after his mother gave him a makeover.  It was at our family reunion in Magrath.

I Love Summer.

I love that school starts in 9 days too (but who's counting?).

Spur of the moment

Last night, after dinner, Spence and I were trying to figure out what to do... "Let's go to Havre, and stay over night."  What a great idea, I can't remember whose idea it was, but I'll take credit.  In 10 minutes we packed the car with a sleeping bag, 2 pillows, our passports and some clothes and got on the road; the border crossing closed at 9pm, so we had to hurry. 

Havre, MT is about 2 hours away, they don't really have much there except a bunch of bars and casinos, but they have a Super Wal-mart.  We bought a bunch of junk food, all the neat stuff we don't have here.  I loved the drive, it was 2 hours of time with Spence.  I loved shopping with him, he pretended to be interested in the things I like, I tried to do the same.  We are really cheap, so we found a parking lot and slept in our car, it was just as romantic, I loved it. We walked around the town a bit and shopped at O'Reilly's and BIG R, Spence got the second to last camping accessory he has ever wanted... a small stainless steel camping teapot (the last thing he wants is a MEC double hammock... it's in the mail).   On our drive home we stopped at Elkwater provincial park and got ice cream cones at the old gas station,  I completely recommend it.  For $2.50 we got HUGE cones, I was actually FULL after eating it. 

Tomorrow we go out to pick up Kali, I miss her so much.  Having 4 brothers and sisters for a week is probably doing her a lot of good though.

I love the Farm!

We've spent a couple weekends at Spencer's parents farm lately, I love going there. When you're there, nothing is pressing, there's little stress and we watch movies and play outside. Spencer helped with dinner one Sunday and wore his mothers apron, I had to snap a pic.



This weekend we rode bikes in the prairie trying to avoid cactus, it was a blast. We fertilized and watered Moms trees, rode the 4-wheeler and Kali rode grandpas horse "apple sauce".










Kali is at Spencers brothers house this week playing with her cousins and we are alone. Kali hasn't even called us yet, I think she's having too much fun. Spence and I have had fun together, but we sent this picture to Kali letting her know we are missing her.



The caption we sent her was: "Hi Kali, we miss you lots. Just eating boring sandwiches for dinner."

Can't wait to see her on Sunday.

Side note: I missed Kalis first week of swimming lessons, dang it! I did this last year too.

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