Summer fun with cousins!

At the end of July we had a visit from the first round of Edmonton cousins - Aviana & Evangelia!

We had fun park play, water fun at Riley Park and a bike ride thru the Babbling Brooks park - ending with a beautiful water fountain. 

Then the weekend after that, the other Edmonton cousins came (Vann & Veda) - and they brought some more friends! It was a houseful, but we had lots of fun! It was kind of like camping, but at home!
Us girls (minus lightweight Steph - JK) even had to start the first night off with wine and snapchat "Truth or Dare" 😂 I had to pull the plug finally at midnight. I was turning into a pumpkin.




We (5 parents and 6 kids) trekked out to Granary Road for our annual summer visit (us parents only have the energy to tackle it ONCE a year LOL)!
The kids had a TON of fun as always.

Skye (aka nature kid) rescued a HUGE dragonfly just as we were leaving.

It must have needed a rest, as it sat on her hand as we slowly drove off and then finally flew out the window!

We finished off the day with a bbq and headstand competition in the backyard (and some dads tortured the kids with wedgie pulls)!!

It was the first time I had tried to do a headstand since I was young and I can still do it!

(the Tipsy Cow shooters probably helped) 😏

Skye and her new "friend" Noah crafting!

Grandma's place - July 13-15

A summer trip to Grandma's house in Camrose. It was a little rainy, so Grandma decided to treat the kids to an indoor activity - getting their nails painted! 😏

It was a test of their patience having to sit and let their nails dry sooo long. I don't think we will be trying it again anytime soon LOL!

Some kind of date night!

What a spiffy couple!

Dino's been trying Rogaine and it's worked wonders!  JK!! 

We attended our friends annual Stampede party and they are a little crazy and make us wear silly costumes and play silly adult games. But it's always a lot of fun and laughs. By the end of the night, Dino's new hair was "growing" on all of us! 😂

Grandpa's farm

Another trip to Grandpa's farm for the July long weekend. It was a nice relaxing weekend!
Grandpa makes delicious breakfasts and there is always a lot of fun stuff to do!

Skye, Rhys and Grandpa went on a quad ride to the neighbors and came back with lots of flowers and onion bulbs to be planted. So we had to plant!

And of course there were many more quad rides and another ride on the motorbike!

(still scares the crap out of me)

Before we left on the Sunday, the kids, Grandpa & I took a quad ride up to the cemetery to visit Grandpa Joe (my dad's dad). It's 5 years this October since he passed. He has a beautiful gravestone though - farming was his life, as it is my dad's. So the kids got a history lesson, as many of the deceased are distant relatives. I don't know a lot of them, and the kids won't remember, but it was a special visit for all of us.