Party all the time!

 

My girl got to go to a birthday party.  Doesn’t she look pretty! 

These are mostly girls from Isla’s Pre-K class.  They all went bowling and had a fantastic time!  It is great to see her having such a good time.

No training wheels?

We have a bit more practicing to do but stay tuned!

Now, here is the video that Isla took.  I love it!

Thomson Lake

This is the holiday destination for Ed for most of his early years.  He took his swimming lessons here and he where he became a lifeguard.  It is also where he kissed a girl for the first time.  Can you just imagine him as a 14 year old Casanova?

We stayed in our tent, where we shared a site with Ed’s mom and dad and his sister’s trailer.  Michelle was in Banff still so her kids stayed there “supervised” by Ed’s mom and dad.

Here are the boys, applying heat.  We always joke about how when a guy barbeques he gets lots of compliments on his supper, when really there has been some marinading, some salads, potatoes prepared etc etc and all he has done is apply heat.  So here they are applying heat. 

 

Here are Mark and I making bush pies.  These were pizza ones that we all gobbled up.

 

And then we moved on to dessert.  The best one was, peanut butter, chocolate and some caramels.  Wow, I am salivating just remembering!

 

 

The boys were able to golf a number of times.  The weather was not very cooperative and rained on them really hard one day and the wind was really strong the next day.  It doesn’t make for the easiest golf game but for Adam who does not shoot the ball to high up in the air it didn’t hurt his games.  He just loved driving the golf cart.

Isla got to go to a crafting and activity place each afternoon.  She was thrilled and brought home treasures every day. 

Ed and I went in to Gravelbourg one afternoon for a date.  We went for lunch at a wonderful little cafe there and found a gem of a gift shop, I found an avocado slicer that I should have bought.  It peeled and cut it at the same time, I should have bought it!  I have been thinking about it ever since.  I really should have bought it. 

Ed bought himself a present when we were there.  Do you want to see it?  Here it is…..

 

He says he will open it when the win the Grey Cup next.  So, I think that means we could be opening it this fall or sometime in the next 50 years!

The Main Event

We were in Regina to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of Ed’s Uncle and Aunt.  It was an opportunity to visit with all of the Turgeon side of the family.  The kids had a fantastic time dancing and playing with all of the other kids at the party.  We didn’t leave the party until after 11pm and the kids were still going strong and were not ready to stop dancing.

 

Adam dancing with his Aunty Yvonne.  She drove all the way from Kelowna!

 

 

Yvonne and Kelsey.

I think that Mark grew again since we saw him last.  It won’t be long and he will be taller than Ed!  Where is Michelle in all of this partying?  She was in Banff at an Music For Young Children Conference.  She was sad to miss it and we all missed her.

Ed’s mom and dad sat at the head table.  Laurie was in the wedding party, he was 19 when they got married, he looked  a lot like Ed when he was young.  Isla thought that it was her dad in the wedding party picture.  We had a good giggle at that!

This is the happy couple.  Looking pretty good for being married for 50 years!

 

Regina Science Center

We met some of Ed’s friends at the Science Centre in Regina. They had moved down to South Carolina and we hadn’t seen them since Ed and I got married nearly 10 years ago.  Again I didn’t get any pictures of them.  But look at these cute kids, but someone really should have washed that little boys face!

 

Rosetown

This trip we headed East.  We stopped for a visit with my Grandma in Rosetown,  I can’t believe that I didn’t get one picture of her, not too smart.  We spent the night and in the morning we had a play in the park and this was the nicest day of our trip.  It was about 27 degrees and a ton of mosquitoes so we were glad we were not camping here. 

We went out to DQ for lunch my Grandma’s favourite place to eat.  Her and my grandpa used to eat at DQ all the time so she is always happy to come with us for lunch there.  She gets a cheesburger and a coffee and then an ice cream for dessert.  We had a great visit with her!  Then we were off to Regina.

A quick turnaround!

We were only home for a few days before we headed out again.  I worked a little and had our friend Emma over for a few days too.  Aren’t they cute all dressed up!  The kids played really well together and it was nice for them to have someone new to play with.