August 20, 2010

August is just whizzing by it seems, and unfortunately the weather has not been so great. It's been very fall like. We have kept busy having fun and enjoying it anyways, and any moment it feels sort of like summer we try to do as much stuff outdoors as possible!! Sunday afternoon we had our friends ,the Kyles, over for dinner as well as the Sherlocks (minus Josh who was in Ontario for the week). It was lots of fun visiting. Monday we had Maiya's friend Claire over to play and Catcher got to go to his friend Lucas' house. The rest of the kids were all over the neighbourhood hanging out with friends.

In the evening, Nanny and Grandpa (Grants parents) came into Airdrie. They are visiting from Ontario. The kids got to visit with them for a little while before bed. It was nice to see them again. They are sleeping at Alex's house for the week. Tuesday we woke up and got ready to go to Kananaskis with the Sherlocks and Nanny and Grandpa. It was such a beautiful spot, I wish we could have had more time there.

It was a cool day and looked very promising for rain, but ended up being really nice in Kananaskis and even got a little hot. The kids loved it there.  Later on in the evening after dinner we headed over to Alex's house to have a fire and visit. I love fires (well controlled ones at least)

Wednesday morning we went over to the park where they had stuff going on for kids. It was mostly for younger kids, so the older ones just took off to the park and stuff. They had a ton of different stations with big puzzles, playdough, water stations, moon sand station, bubbles, painting, blocks, lego etc. The Siakaluks were there too and so it was fun for the kids to have friends there, and of course me too!

McKenna went to her friend, Courtneys, house from the park to spend the day. I took the rest of the kids home for lunch and then we headed over to the pool to go swimming for the afternoon. It was such a nice day, that when we got back home, the sprinkler went on and there was more water fun to be had along with the neighbourhood kids. They also made our slide into a waterslide by putting the sprinkler at the top of the slide.

Later in the evening I went to guitar lessons and then went over to hang out with the girls (Alex and her Mom) and Josh and  Grants Dad came over her to have a movie night with the guys.

Thursday during the day was fairly uneventful. We had a slow, lazy start to the day. Got Damian signed up for gymnastics again. He is now in level 5.  Later in the afternoon the kids played outside, went for walks to Macs etc. I got caught up on a bunch of photography stuff, and even practiced my guitar. Garth and Sarah and their kids arrived in Airdrie to come visit Garths parents before they leave. Their girls came over to our house to sleepover and also watched the kids while Grant and I went over to visit with the adults in the family. Later as I was getting ready for bed, I went to check on the girls and to turn off the lights. This is how I found my niece, Natasha, sleeping:

in the swinging IKEA chair. I woke her up to see if she wanted to move, but she really wanted to stay there to sleep. I hope she didn't ache too much in the morning..and then there was McKenna..she ended up sleeping on top of an old trunk (we keep costumes in) with a car mat, body pillow, beanbag chair and a blanket. I have no idea how these girls sleep like this, haha! I moved her though because I didn't want her falling off in the night.

Today we went over to Alex's house for Gabrielles b-day party. Here is a picture of her eating her Dora cake in the dress she picked out for her party dress..

Grant had to leave for work and Garth and their family had to head home, so we got a quick picture of all of the grandkids with Nanny and Grandpa. Not a perfect picture, but good enough. Everyone was in it, and that's what was important!

It's been fun visiting with family!!