Welcome to Canada

We have now been in Calgary for the past two weeks, and I have loved spending so much time with my parents and brother. We left the heat of Las Vegas, and in a few hours we were in the snow!

It was pretty crazy, and we had storms for the entire drive, but the weather here in Calgary actually has been pretty nice. The drive was very long. We left Las Vegas at 3 pm on a Friday afternoon. We drove pretty much straight until about midnight when we got to our hotel in Pocatello, Idaho. We had to get all the stuff set up and the bikes off the car, and so we finally got to sleep around 1 am.

We set the alarm for 7 am, got up, took the kids swimming for 30 minutes, and were back on the road by 8:30 am. Then we drove all day and finally got to my parents house around 8:30 pm. Thanks to many episodes of The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Sophia the First, we survived, but I never want to drive that far again.

My parents just moved into a new house on Auburn Bay Lake a couple of months ago. Their house is beautiful and looking at the water is amazing. However, my girls are trying really hard to make their new house more "lived in." In the past two days alone, Cora found a lipstick at nap time, and decorated everything she could find including the new carpet, and Aubrey had the stomach flu, which included throwing up all over the carpet. I'm sorry mom!

Next summer when the backyard is finished it will be even more fun. Steven did manage to convince both girls to jump into the freezing water. I promised I would too... once it is a little warmer.

We have spent a few warm days at the lake beach. The girls love playing in the sand and water. And Steven figured out how to catch some minnows in a bucket, which thrilled Aubrey. He caught one for Cora, but she told us "he got buried in the sand" when we asked what happened to her fishy. 

My dad got Steven a nice little office downtown at his law firm. Steven is enjoying the scenery as he bikes to work. Calgary really is a beautiful city.

 We took the kids to a farm, and they loved feeding the animals. I'm impressed with how brave Aubrey has gotten.

Ahh... sister love. 

I have also loved going to the temple, catching up with some old friends, hanging out with my mom, doing lots of running, reading, and looking at design blogs/furniture stores for our new house!

We officially close on our house July 9. Since my birthday is on the 7th, I think I will have a pretty good birthday gift this year. 

Things on our house are coming along. It is fun to see the progress.

Our builder has a home in the Utah Valley Parade of homes that starts next week. That house is across the street from ours, so it is a little weird to think that hundreds of people are going to be driving by and looking at our house. I'm just glad that all the people will be gone before we move in. We are getting excited!