Room Service

This weekend we had a mini-vacation of sorts. It was sort of spontaneous, but we were all looking forward to being together. Mr. Stannix booked us into the same hotel that he stayed at for training simply because it had an awesome pool and water slides. We pulled into Calgary just before 8:00PM, checked in, and grabbed our swimming suits. We spent the night playing in the water and going down the slides. Hyrum was in love with them, Camilla not so much. 

Mr. Stannix went down over and over with our little man. Camilla and I watched a few times and then headed to the warm kids pool. At one point Mr. Stannix came over to the pool after a slide holding a drenched little boy. Turns out they picked up a little too much speed going down and kind of shot out the bottom. They both ended up fully submerged in the pool, but Hyrum didn't seem to mind. 

The kids had a blast in the kids pool walking around and floating with their life jackets. They are definitely water babies. It was nice to just relax in the warm water and not worry about anything. Everyone had a lot of fun!

When we got back to the room we bathed the children and tucked them into bed with snacks.  Hyrum was in love with the big bed and cozy blankets. They watched a few cartoons and then it was time to go to sleep. Hyrum fell asleep right away, but Camilla just couldn't get comfy and ended up spending the rest of the night up with us.

Mr. Stannix wanted to do two things that he's never done before. First up was to order room service. A little pricey, but my chocolate dessert was worth every penny. Second was to rent a movie at the hotel. The three of us then cozied up in our bed eating food and watching a show. It was great!

One of our main reasons for our adventure was to go to the Calgary Temple open house. We woke up early this morning and got ready to go. The air was chilly and it felt like snow was coming. We grabbed some McDonalds for breakfast and then headed over to the temple. What a beautiful building! There was a bit of a line, but it wasn't too bad because it was first thing in the morning (and cold). We watched the video presentation and then took the kids inside to see the temple. It was such a special experience to be able to take them. Camilla loved it! I carried Hyrum and enjoyed listening to his whispered (very exaggerated)  "wow" and hearing him say "Jee-Jee" when we would walk by paintings of Jesus. Sadly because of the weather we weren't able to snap pictures! Everyone was too freezing and we made our way to the car pretty quick after. I can't wait to go back on a nicer day though and grab some photo's for Camilla's photo albums, just to remind her that she was able to go to the open house and see inside. 

We had planned to go to the zoo for the afternoon but some nice big flakes started falling and the weather turned really ugly. We decided it would be best to leave the city before the roads got too bad. It snowed all the way to Olds and then finally cleared up a bit. We stopped in Red Deer for lunch at Earls and then drove the rest of the way home. Poor Mr. Stannix put up with a very emotional, over sensitive, pregnant wife for majority of the day. After we got the kiddos to bed we snuggled up on the couch and watched our favorite show. Perfect end to a chilly day.