It's a Beauty

This week the littles and I took off to Calgary because we missed Daddy so much! If you remember a while back I mentioned he would be training for quite some time at the Calgary office. We are three weeks in, with nine more to go! We are definitely loving technology and the ability that Skype gives us to have family prayer each night together, even though Daddy is so far away. On more than one occasion I have cried as Daddy said family prayers from afar bringing the Spirit into our home. One night as Camilla chatted with Daddy over Skype he gave her a tour of the apartment. After seeing the view from her window she exclaimed, "It's a BEAUTY!"

The city lights welcomed us late last night, and the children were in awe as we drove downtown to the little apartment. This was Camilla's view this morning.

It isn't easy keeping the littles occupied in such a small space, but they did pretty good. Since the cleaning lady comes on Wednesday's, we had to vacate the premises for the day. We ended up driving out to High River to visit my little sister.

We spent the morning enjoying a donut at Timmies and then walking around this huge park exploring. This picture was one in a million as Hyrum literally whined the whole way around the lake. I spent most of the morning walking ahead of them, biting my tongue and trying to keep a cheery attitude. This motherhood gig is hard sometimes..

We ended our walk by climbing this huge hill and rolling down a couple of times. Joseph prefers to RUN down the hill which really makes my heart race, but he's getting pretty good on his feet these days. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of our awesome visit with my sister, but we were sure grateful to be able to chill at her place for a while! Getting back to our apartment was a gongshow and I drove around the block multiple times just to figure out where the parkade was. I walked up to our seventh floor apartment feeling pretty frazzled from city traffic and learning to navigate my way around a new city (thank-goodness the van has GPS).

 Eating at the apartment consisted of picnics on the kitchen floor where we could easily wipe up and contain the mess. There was a little table with two chairs, but anyone with littles knows that eating over a carpeted area is a bad idea (especially when the chairs are covered with white fabric). Daddy came home to a warm dinner and excited kids.

After dinner we ventured out to the trails to see what we could see. It was fun to take our time and let the littles explore, climb logs, and check things out.

We made our way around the loop at Prince's Island Park and found a fabulous little playground. I was so relieved to find something like this so close to "home" as we still had two days to keep ourselves occupied. 

The older two immediately went for the swings, pleading with Daddy to push them higher and higher. It was such a fabulous way to end a crazy day!