July 27, 2010

This past Friday Grant actually had the day off, yay! Kaitlyn ended up having her friend Telesha over for a sleepover, and McKenna slept over at her friend Isabella's house. Grant and I went over to our friends house (Carrie and Tyler) for a games night.
Saturday, Kaitlyn went to "Shakers" for the day with her friend Telesha. They had a blast on the go carts, and wall climbing etc.) Damian and Catcher went to their cousin, Ethans, birthday party. It was a pirate party, and looked like a lot of fun. I picked McKenna up from the sleepover and her and Maiya and Tyson decided to have a juice stand. There was a yard sale just down the street, so this was the perfect opportunity. I decided to put a bunch of the stuff I was giving to the salvation army, out on my driveway for free in case anyone wanted it (saves me a trip). This also got more traffic. The girls were selling the juice for 25 cents per glass, and they ended up making $12.50.  They were very excited about this, and of course McKenna wanted to make a trip to the dollar store afterwards. Money burns a hole in that girls pocket. In the afternoon, we headed over to the Prairie Winds splash park to cool the kids off. It was a great day for it. It was crazy busy there, but the kids had fun and made some new friends to play with there. I always think it's so great how quickly children are able to make friends.  Sunday we went to church. It was a very inspiring day. I was well fed spiritually that day. After church we had the missionaries over for a bit and then our friends, The Adams, came over for a BBQ.
Monday morning, I woke up and it was a gorgeous day. So we decided to head down to the south of Calgary to Lake Sikome. Such a perfect day. It was nice and hot (I treasure those days in Alberta since there are not very many of those). We got there early enough that we got a good spot on the beach and there weren't a ton of people to start out.

Grant was able to come because he worked at night. Charity and her kids came, and so did my brother Caleb. My goal was a tan on my extremely white legs, and I got a bit of one. We'll see how long it stays. The kids had lots of fun with their cousins. Charity and I had some fun visiting, tanning and Charity reading a bit. Grant and Caleb played frisbee, chatted, buried kids in the sand, haha!

I love the beach. Such fun! After the beach, we went to go visit my Mom and Dad at their house. We visited, and had some dinner there. It was nice to visit. Here is a picture of Tyson with my Grandma (his Great Grandma)

this is my Dad with my sister, Shawna, and my brother, Seth, on their front step. (Mom refused to be in the picture after a long day at work)

Afterwards we drove home to get soem clothes for McKenna and Maiya. I dropped them off at Reese and Presleys house for a sleepover, and went to pick up Drayton to have a sleepover at our house with Damian. After picking up Drayton, we headed over to the ward garden to help pull weeds.

While we were there, the kids also enjoyed petting the horses and feeding them long grass.

Kaitlyn headed over to Teleshas house afterwards for a sleepover (wow do my kids ever do a lot of sleepovers), so I was left with only boys. So weird.
Drayton and Damian had a blast together, as usual. I'm surprised that they never get sick of eachother.
The girls all headed over here today (except Kaitlyn who stayed at Teleshas) and will be sleeping over tonight. I got lots of cleaning and more organizing done (seems like a favourite thing to do, haha)
Have I ever mentioned how much I love summer??