This has been a really fun and busy summer for us. On top of our trip, we have filled the days with a lot of great things that will be missed as summer comes to a close...
Putting the sprinkler under the trampoline is always a hit:
There were so many hailstorms! We got this one on video. It was especially neat with the beautiful rainbow in the background:
Izzy and Lily enjoyed the STARS basketball camp. They were happy to get their own new basketball, waterbottle, and t shirt. They are anxiously waiting for their certificates to come in the mail. They love to check the mailbox everyday.
Something new to us this summer was bike riding! Ben and I finally got some bikes and all of the girls learned how to ride 2 wheelers, even Chloe. She worked so hard in the spring and has loved riding her bike everyday in the summer. We got this little Wee Ride seat for Olivia, so it makes it easy to go on longer bike rides with everyone. They love riding to playgrounds and Sobey's to get a treat the most.
This picture was taken one day at my parents house:
Olivia learned how to ride a big girl bike with the training wheels! She loves the new doll bike seat and doll helmet we got for her birthday:
The girls always LOVE to go to Nana and Grandpa's house and see them and the dogs:
Grandpa Herget celebrated his 64th birthday this summer:
I celebrated my 31st! I woke up to these beauties thanks to my wonderful husband:
We had family reunions too! One with the Anderson clan here in our neck of the woods! We camped in High River and went to the Big Rock and floating down the Highwood River.
We also had a fun reunion with the Mossey family at Lake Newel again. It was so much fun. I unfortunately didn't get any pictures of that day.
What would a summer be like without a lemonade stand? They were charging 15 cents a glass, and a friendly construction worker said they were underpricing the lemonade and gave them $7 for 7 cups. When he was walking over, Chloe yelled out, "Quick, take your seats! We have a real, ALIVE, customer!" It was pretty cute.
As I was cleaning out all of the girls old school stuff, I came across this little gem. It is sweet to read Lily's perspective of everything. My favorite parts are when she writes, "We value every Monday we have Family Home Evening." And also, "We celebrate Christmas, Easter, birthday, Halloween, Valentines, and loose-tooths." haha!
Loose tooths indeed! Lily has lost about 4 teeth this summer. And oddly enough, Rory too! Here they are together with their missing teeth. They are quite the inseparable pair:
It was a summer of new babies too! Sweet baby Meila was born in July:
It was fun to meet her:
Here is a cute video I got one day at Grandpa's house, where he is playing with all the grandkids:
These pictures make me laugh. Olivia has this bad habit of always coming into our bed in the middle of the night. Well a few times I would wake up to her sprawled all over Ben. I took a few pictures.
Here they are one morning we were camping:
And one morning on our trip in the hotel:
And one morning in our bed. OH-livia!
The girls have fun baking and cooking with me. Lily says it is one of her favourite things to do:
One night it was so quiet, and I came to see all 4 of them quietly and nicely brushing their teeth before bed. It was a cute sight so I snapped a picture:
Izzy was doing this another night and asked me to take a video. It is pretty funny!
Happy Summer!
We just found out a few days ago, we are moving back to Edmonton! Little did we know this was going to be our last summer in Calgary. We have really loved Calgary these last 3 years, and will miss it so much. At the same time though, we look forward to what the future holds. Edmonton, here we come!
We just found out a few days ago, we are moving back to Edmonton! Little did we know this was going to be our last summer in Calgary. We have really loved Calgary these last 3 years, and will miss it so much. At the same time though, we look forward to what the future holds. Edmonton, here we come!
