Family!

A couple weeks ago we went out with my cousins family and shot some pictures of each other.  They're Mike and Amie as well and have 2 little boys.  And my cousin Mike works with my Mike.  Can you say parallel universes?!  Haha!  Neither Amie or I really know what we're doing but still I'm glad to have some family shots until we decide to fork out the dough to have professional ones done!

A Night at Wally's Beach

 It was actually probably much too chilly to go to the beach this early September evening but as a result we had it all to ourselves.  I'm glad that even though the evening was cold the memories will always be warm.  Having a hard time saying goodbye to summer this year!

First Day of Pre-school!

Waterton

Another year, another great weekend spent camping in Waterton.  

Summer Nights

A bike, a dog, and a stick.  Does a little boy really need anything else?

Lake Life

Just spent a fabulous week at the lake :)

I'm back.....

Where to start from..... It's been a while.  Really I didn't have a lot of intentions of starting this back up again as it's been so long, but here I am, a Saturday morning with a millon things to accomplish and I'm on the computer instead.  It probably helps that Mike and Carter have headed out to the farm this morning to pick up a rototiller and I'm on my own in a quite house.  It's all in an effort to better prep our garden for next year, this year - epic fail.  Bad soil..... it's our excuse anyways.  

Here's a picture account of what we've been up to the last few months:

Loving being closer to the farm and all the family and fun it involves

Spent a week in July road ripping it to Seattle with my sister and crew.  So fun.... and probably won't do that drive with 4 kids again anytime soon :)

A couple weeks later spent a week in Idaho with the same bunch.  Probably my favourite place on earth.

Did a camping trip in Montana with the Balderson's, a camping trip to Waterton with the Bullock's, and back to Waterton again for some Dahl cabin time.

....And back to Waterton again and again.  Can't get enough of this place in the summer!

We've been busy transforming this.. to this... to this... and still have a lot of finishing left to do.

We've been able to make some fun trips to Calgary and loved being able to tour the beautiful new temple!

And biggest of all have been working on growing this little thing!  We're due end of April and couldn't be more excited!!!

Farmer at Heart

I was away this weekend (has so so so much fun in Montana with my sis and cousins!) and the first thing Carter told me when we spoke on the phone was "hurt da cow mommy".  This boys been educated on the process of branding....

It's been a while.  I don't know if anyone ever comes here any longer but I thought I'd share few things that have made me happy to be living in Lethbridge.

Walking to Church

Bike rides or walks to our neighborhood park

Our neighborhood (Little C is on my mother's childhood tricycle)

Though we're still busy inside with reno projects, all the warm weather has us excited to be working in the yard and beautifying it!  A plus to our older home is all the plants and tree's that came with it.

Lilac bush - can't wait until this blooms!

Clematis

A happy spot for Carter

(don't worry that this picture was taken at noon

and yes Carter is wearing his PJ top, no pants, 

and gumboots)

I'm pretty sure every impromptu family photo op will be taken 

in front of this tree

(And do you like our RV parking pad?  I'm pretty sure that 95% of

older homes in Lethbridge have these.  Guess we need to buy an RV....)

Growth from our garden (our first one we've ever planted!)

Mike building this this morning around an old tree stump 

(a little disappointed that our ally neighbors came over and asked 

if it was going to stay - do they think we just built it for kicks?)

Honeysuckle bush


I'd love to paint the exterior of the house but seeing as we just did this last summer at our Calgary home it won't be happening anytime soon here.  I'm thinking painting the siding white, the brick a slate colour, and the exterior doors navy would look pretty fabulous.  Add it to the "to do" list I guess.... haha.
Another major bonus of being down here is the proximity to a lot of our family.  I've loved being able to have my brother's come to dinner,  Mike can meet his sisters for lunch at the hospital, and really the farm is a second home for Carter.  On a bit of a sad note we said goodbye to a beloved family dog this week at Balderson's.  Dogs live a great but usually somewhat shortened life on the farm.  Duke had been in the family for just over 5 years and will be missed dearly.  So glad I snapped these photo's the other weekend.

How sweet were these two together?!