July's Awesome Adventure Part2: Scows

Upon arriving in Idaho Danielle and I learned that you can buy fireworks at the grocery store! Who knew?! So we immediately hit that up to prepare ourselves for Canada day!  The next day we were all dressed in Canada day swagger and had oodles of fun celebrating Canada's birthday. We had a hot dog roast complete with smores and finished the night off with fireworks!

Cohen was immensely enjoyed him self as Tim helped him light most of the fireworks.

We also enjoyed lunch in the park. Cohen left to go play so I stole a swig of his chocolate milk. He later came back and was so upset because some was gone. I definitely was going to admint that it was me. Danielle told him he must have drank more than he thought...

Cohen loves Wrigley and was an awesome dog walker!

When I go to visit I love to relive my childhood through buying the kids fun activities that I never got to do. This time we tried out balloonies! They smelled highly toxic but were pretty awesome. You put this goop on the end of a straw and blow these big bubbles/ballons. They were pretty cool. Cohen and Mason had fun popping them.

We also enjoyed a round of golf. Danielle and I were clearly enjoying ourselves. On one hole you had to hit the ball over water. I surprisingly made it over by skipping it off the water and over.

Tim is looking super ghetto because his shoulders were so sore that he would have been unable to golf without cutting the sleeves off.

Tim managed to golf through the water trap... aka the sprinklers.

We enjoyed lots of shopping and both bought maxi dresses.

Mason LOVES books and was more than happy to hang out with me as long as I had one.

We also enjoyed staying upu late to play games and eat caramel popcorn! So delicious. Thanks to Denton's boss we also went white water rafting. Denton fell out twice. On the second time around I thought I could do better but I still fell out once. Danielle learned that I am not as crazy as I used to be and I no longer jump with out thinking. However Danielle did talk me in to jumping in and floating for a bit and that was pretty fun.

Cohen was in fine form and full of entertainment. Favourite comment, said like a valley girl, was OH MY GOSH! After Tim bought him some jelly belly's, only because Cohen was eating them off the grocery store floor, he announced that Tim wasn't scary and he wasn't scared of Tim anymore. While eating the jelly belly's, Cohen had to share with Mason but would only hand one over after licking it and not liking the flavour.

We appreciate the Scow's watching Wrigley while we were in Utah!!! Even if he was a bit crazy... and escaped during church!!! We learned that he can fit through a hole in the fence that is 3 1/2 inches big!!

Thanks again for all the fun! We hope to see you same time next year??!?!



July's Awesome Adventure Part1: Wright's

So we took an amazing vacation for pretty much all of July. It was wonderful to be surrounded by family and friends and not be in Calgary for once. We left on June 30th just in time to make it to Danielle's house for July 1st. It was a blast but will be recorded in the second part of July's awesome adventure.
We went to Utah to spend July 4th with the Wright's. They are serious partiers and we had some serious fun. We drove fast and made it just in time to go fishing! We hit up Deer Creek but got skunked!! BOO! My first serious fishing trip and we didn't catch anything but a measely pike! But that is ok because it meant we needed to do more fishing trips!
Bryan has the coolest fishing boat. When you actually catch fish you can open a little tank in the bow of the boat and watch them swim around!
On our way to go fishing. Can you tell they are related? It is hard to see but they are all sitting the exact same way!!

This is Joshua looking at the fishies we cought at Rockport.

Here is Timmy in the green getting ready to net a fish. You can also see his sleeves have been rolled up which later lead to a burn that blistered!!! He told his Aunt Shauna and I quote: I am Asian. I don't need sunscreen and I won't burn! Bahahaha!

I gutted the fish I caught and it was disgusting! (mine was the biggest!)

 Tim was so excited to share fishing with me. This is what he loved to do as a little boy. He has endless memories of going out with Beebaw and watching him fiddle with the engine to get the best speed. I also love the story of when Beebaw bought a new fishing boat instead of a dinner table for Grammy! I guess Grammy would call them to gather around the "fishing boat" for dinner!

July 4th was an awesome party! We had an awesome crew and it was fantastic to see everyone.
David made ice cream.

For the last two years all I have heard about was the cannon... When David was in high school he made a cannon that every July 4th the Wright's shoot off. It was pretty cool.

All outside watching the cannon. Over to hang out was: The Delaney's, Jake and Ashely, Eliza, Wesley, David, Chrissy, Dede, Gordon, Myrleen and Karlie, Kajsa, Logan and there cute kiddos and of course the Bryan, Shauna and there amazing kids!

Happy 4th of July!!

After the 4th we hiked Mt. Timpanogas!! It was super fun and we all made it to the tippy top! I was prepared with a pb&j, trail mix, water and jerkey! Gordon, the iron man runner, was prepared with salt pills and goo... If anyone looked the slightest bit tired, Gordon was quick to offer up the goo. Brandon tried some and quickly decided to stick with normal food. Tim did manage to get one down.

Here is Shauna and Bryan taking a shortcut which was not so short! By this point Tim and I had finally learned! By the end of the trip I couldn't help but to roll my eyes when Gordon offered goo or said it is just another 100 yards. Yeah, so not 100 yards! But on the other hand look how pretty the meadow is! We saw big horn sheep! way cool.

A panoramic shot. We ALL hiked to the highest peak.

Here we are at the top. Brandon was sooo amazing! He did so well and peed at every rest point. He was definitely not dehydrated at the end.

A cute little tin shack at the top.

Other highlights include:

-shopping

-eating waaay too much

-BANG

-Famiy

-Late night chats

-Playing at a gymnastic gym

-Spider man

-Dropping a flag off and visiting the Meechum's

We had so much fun just being there and appreciate the hospitality from Bryan and Shauna. Their kids are getting so big and it is fun to hang out with them.

Wrigley....

Our puppy is growing up fast and it has been so much fun to learn a new side of Tim as we raise this dog together. I know what you are thinking, "they are the crazy dog owners!" And we kind of are but we do remember that he is just a dog but you can't say no to that face!
Wrigley was doing so well at coming when  he was called and listening to commands and just being a good dog but now he is looking at me and just walking away. He has to stay on the leash when we go out to the bathroom. He has to earn that privelige back.

Tim loves to harass or torture Wrigley. You can look at it however you want. One of his great ideas was to put treats under a laundry basket that was propped up by a pop bottle, with a string tied around the pop bottle so he could trap wrigley. Below are the chain of events.

Gotta Catch'em All! That is Wrigley's nose sticking out the side of the laundry basket!

Seriously? Could you get any more pathetic!

Lately, one of Wrigley's favorite things is to sneak away into the bathroom and destroy the garbage! We have started to close the door behind us. Thanks Quinn for teaching us that babies don't know how to stay out of the bathroom garbage!

I knew Wrigley was doing something he shouldn't but when I went to check I couldn't see anything wrong so I temporarily forgot, until I was cleaning up and moved Tim's shoes and realized he peed on them!! I laughed and then laughed some more!! HAHAHA! Yes, that did happen.

And then there is Q-tip. I love her and she is just the cutest thing ever. Tim and I went to the temple so Erin, Tannis and Quinn babysat Wrigley and took him to the dog park. He sat with Quinny until she got annoyed but Wrigley was stuck so can you imagine that she got even madder! Just like her mother:)

Well Danielle, I hope you are still willingly to babysit Wrigley after this post because we are so excited to come visit. We are definitely holding Cohen to his promise and we expect him to teach Wrigley to share! He really a fabulous dog and has such and nice personality! We really do love him.

Across the stage and into the future!

Tim walked the stage and received his degree in political science and history! I couldn't be more proud of him. He worked really hard to improve his GPA and I do believe he actually learned something. He always has interesting fact and tid bits about this and that. He is one smart cookie! I am grateful he is my husband!

Congratulations to Amber Palmer!! We sure are going to miss you when you move to Boston but are really excited to hear about your stories and excited to come visit!

Congratulations and Good luck in architect school to Jesse Potrie!! And thanks to Melissa for sitting by me.

Tim's dad was able to sit up on the stage and congratulate him immediately after getting his degree!

We then celebrated with lunch and the next day went for dinner! It was very fun and I am very proud of his accomplishment! We also scored a deep freeze from my mother. Nothing says "way to go" like a deep freeze! Thanks mom. We are really enjoying it! Good luck on the masters Timmer!





May Long Weekend

I know this post is waaay overdue but I had a fabulous time so I really want to tell you all about it and put up the pictures!
Because my family talked me into getting a full time job, I was unable to participate fully. Yes, I was sad but I will be making up for it soon because we go on vacation soon!!! Woohoo!!
On Monday my family came up to Calgary, dog's included, and went to the zoo!!

The penguins were well worth the wait. It was sooo cool because they were sooo close. It was so tempting to touch one but we all obeyed the rules. It was especially interesting as Tim and I just finished watcing a discovery channel special called Frozen Planet!Very well done and I learned so much; such as penguins live in the antarctic, not the arctic. Tim and I really had to work on that one. Cohen, aka skeletor, was a real gem for most of the trip until the end of the penguins when we wanted to take a group picture.

Happy belated mother's day! I really love you and all you do for me. I love how close my family is and that is due to how hard my mom worked at organizing vacations and making sure we had it all!

Cohen was wiped after the the big day at the zoo.

After the day at this zoo, we headed back to Welling. Cohen and Wrigley are now bestfriends which is good because we need a dog sitter when we got to utah:)

We all loved the quad

We also did a bit of banking.... I owed muffy a bit of money so we rolled down the back window out of her van and used the ATM. I am not sure what the guy behind us was thinking!

Other highlights included hitting up the cheescake, eating some yummy food and playing with the dogs. I had a fabulous weekend and was glad to be home for a quick stop!

Even though we were only there for a day exhausted on the way home!