.The Potters Come to Canada

Dear Blog,

Today I’m starting to regain my energy that was lost from so much excitement in the last few weeks… in reality, we’ve already been home from vacation for four days. I’ve been working this week you see? And as a general rule--life’s pretty hectic in the summer. In a good way!

My best Nichole and her hub Joel came up to visit us for the last week in July. They drove like 19 hours to get here! (they took the long route) Their car even broke down a couple of times in the middle of no-where! We had to pick them up in Ponoka in the middle of the night!

Our friends are soooooo..... The Best! I hope the rest of their trip made it all worthwhile.

We literally had every day they were here packed full of fun stuff to do.

You wanna know what we did?

West Edmonton Mall:

the boys were all tuckered out from shopping at Anthropologie

we got cooked by the fire breathing dragon

Visiting family & finding baby mice:

Touring the city:

Chillin’ at home:

Picnic at Rundle Park:

our boy scout husbands came in pretty handy when we needed to make a fire out of nothing

Fort Edmonton:

The Temple:

We fed them weird Canadian foods:

New York Fries poutine. It’s French!

perogies (this picture is freakishly bad--they’re good, I promise)

Tim Hortons donuts are GOOD

Peters’ Drive-in shakes in Calgary. Mmmm...

Free night at the art gallery:

Taste of Edmonton:

And here we are driving down to Utah together at the end of the week. So much fun!

Oh, and we almost lost a tire in the middle of Montana… YIKES!

Whoa, I don't know how we managed to have enough energy to make it to Illinois with my family after all of that!

Thanks for coming up and having fun NiJoel! Wish you could be here always!

I bet you're all wishing you could see more pictures of the baby mice, huh?

Next up! We're making noise in Illinois!