Calaway Park

After swimming and sleeping in the hotel last night, we made our way to Denny's for breakfast.  

Lily guzzled my orange juice, and I ended up leaving my new favorite pair of sunglasses under the table after she dropped them at some point. 

It was such a hot day! Everyone really enjoyed themselves!

I spent the majority of my day following Lily around and watching the middle kids go on rides, but there were a few things she was able to do!

 

 

We ended up leaving just as a storm was blowing in. The winds were really strong as we crossed the parking lot and the rain started pouring just as we made it to Big Red! It was almost tornado worthy. 

We drove to Cochrane where we stopped at Montana's for dinner! The children each buddied up and were so well behaved through the entire meal. It was quite enjoyable to be together laughing and having fun over dinner. It was a packed few days, but so so worth it to be together!

iFly and Go Karts

 This Summer we decided to do a little staycation with all of us. Our first day brought us to Calgary to check out the ifly! Everyone was able to participate except for miss Lily, and they all had a lot of fun! A few of them chose to do the high fly and were able to fly really high in the wind tunnel with our instructor. It's quite neat how tensing and relaxing your body changes how you fly or fall. 

The afternoon brought us to the Skyline Luge for go-karting. I was slightly nervous to let Ollie loose down the hill on his own, but he quickly got a hang of the brakes and was able to make it down no problem. They were all stoked to go down for a second time! Lily and Sawyer rode down with Mike and I, squealing with delight the entire way.

I think everyone is going to sleep well tonight!

Family Time at the Lake

Today we went boating for almost the entire day! It was thirty degrees outside and the lake was basically glass. 

Everyone had a blast knee boarding and skiing with such perfect conditions. I could have stayed on those water skis all day. Nothing compares to the feeling you get when you get out on the glass beside the boat and see the clouds and your smile reflecting off the lake. It's like your skiing on the clouds and it's incredible. 

Joe loved knee boarding for his first time and ended up going three times total. 

There was also lots of swimming and jumping in the lake from the boat. The water was amazing and the weather was so hot you wanted to jump in and cool off.

We only ended up tubing for a short time at the end.

We all came home happy, tired and burnt!

A Sunday in the Garden

 This afternoon Lily brought me my shoes and put them on my feet. She then picked up the egg basket and led me outside. We went on an adventure together towards the top garden. We said hello to the chickens on our way. Once we made it to the garden, we noticed the ripening raspberries and ate to our hearts content. It was a lovely way to spend an hour on the Sabbath. 

Happy Sunday!