.June 2017 part 1

Finally summer! June was a fun month for us so I'm gonna have to split this into two posts.

First off, here is Ames with three of his best buddies (Rhys, Jack and Lachlan) at our house for a "play-date". These little guys are so awesome together and they get completely lost in their imaginations together for hours on end. And Alice trying to play with them and just repeatedly telling me she wants some girls to come play with her. lol

Air is the best Daddy and loves to brush Alice's hair while telling her stories to keep her happy.

One of our favorite things to do on those unbearably hot summer days. These two have no shame

We found a lego store in a mall in our city! We all love Lego so much.

sleepy on the way home

We babysat baby Elsie a lot this summer, she is such a cutie//Alice got invited to her first friend's birthday party. They are twins in our ward

Ames gave his second talk in primary

Aaron built us a swingset with some of our old deck boards, endless fun for these two

Alice got her crib converted into a toddler bed and has been loving life as a big girl.

We love baking cookies together

Couple a random shots: Ames in a box// I made some yummy salsa verde chicken pasta

Practicing my french braid and snapchat skills with Alice

The kids and I found a park nearby called Andy's park one day with a big zipline!

Here is our first trip of MANY to Fort Edmonton Park this summer. We had passes so we were there every chance we got! This place is literally the best place to go for a day in our city!

For this visit we just jumped on the steam train at the entrance and went straight to the actual fort part of the park to see where people first settled here in Edmonton a long long time ago…

This place is so amazing and fun to explore. It's fun to think about what it would be like to live here back in the day.

We jumped back on the train just before the park closed for the day. We only explored a tiny portion of the park on this day, but boy was it awesome.

Then we somehow had enough energy to go to a park downtown.

We had hot dogs and s'mores for FHE when we got home. Fun day!

More to come from June…

.January 2017

I'm starting this post with the MAIN event of January, which is of course, Air's Bday. Even though his Birthday is at the end of the month, I just wanted to highlight it at the top here. I love him that much I guess.

Here are some of Air's many (devastatingly handsome) faces↓↓↓

For his birthday, all he wanted to do was go to a Chinese buffet. This is always his favorite thing to do↓↓↓

And now for the rest of our random photos from January:

↓↓↓ Alice still sleep-eats on the regular//and she loves dance parties↓↓↓

↓↓↓ We had so much fun at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park swimming and playing at the indoor playground//Alice had a fever and hot pink cheeks for a couple days, and sure enough, she had some big molars coming in!↓↓↓

↓↓↓ I found the key to their hearts when I started baking cookies now and then

↓↓↓ We spent a day all together at the John Janzen Nature Center with Tam and Jake and our friends the Caddy's. We love this place!

↓↓↓ just some snapchat videos

↓↓↓ We built a snowman he had a mustache

↓↓↓ I love it when kids find comfy spots in weird places

↓↓↓ Air's best friend Kyle got married. We love weddings!//Our kids love tubing, and this little tube was worth every penny, although it was shockingly cheap ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ One of Alice's favorite hobby's—laying in my spot on the bed with a show on my phone

↓↓↓ more sledding and tubing

↓↓↓ For forever Alice has been sitting in her high chair like this and it reminds me of how Ellen Degeneres sits in her chair at the beginning of her show!

↓↓↓ Alice is hilarious and loves to make us laugh all the time//Our snowman melted away on one side and became paper thin without ever falling down. It was incredible ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ Here is a compilation of this month's "after church pics"