Our 24 hours in Calgary

Ok, so it was a little more than 24 hours, but not much! We found out last Wednesday that Andrew (Peter's brother) would be in Calgary for a few days ... so we decided to drive down on the weekend to see him. We left Saturday morning, stopped in Edmonton to do some shopping and pick up some baby gifts that were waiting for us at Toys R Us and then continued to Calgary. Saturday night was dinner and a movie - and then on Sunday we went to the Calgary Zoo! It was fun, even though many of the animals were doing absolutely nothing but sleeping. I think the highlight for me was the baby elephant - very cute! Peter really liked watching one of the monkeys taunt and play with a young gorilla. As for Andrew ... well, I think his favorite part was all the slow walking thanks to me ; )




Trying to touch some stingrays ...


They tried to get me to do the exact same pose, but I refused .. there were already enough people watching!


It took us about 5 hours to get through the zoo and by the time we were done I was DONE! My feet were killing me, my back was aching, my right knee was sore .. the pregnancy sure caught up with me. I was impressed though that these ailments only started to bother me in the last hour or so - by the end I felt a little like this bear ...


It was also neat to see Calgary - its very weird to see cities out here that literally appear out of nowhere. There is farmland, farmland, farmland - houses! The suburbs seem to start in the middle of nowhere, we've noticed the same thing in Edmonton. And, we could see downtown Calgary from miles and miles away because its so flat. It was also my first time seeing the Rockies, which kind of nestle around the edge of the city. It was a very long 5.5 hour drive back to Cold Lake, but well worth it to spend some time with Andrew, who we hardly ever see. Calgary, of course has been having beautiful warm sunny weather ... but naturally the time we chose to go it was snowy and a tad chilly (but not too bad, only about -2).

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Easter 2008

Happy Easter everyone - we hope you all had a nice long weekend :) Friday we went to the Good Friday service at church, then had dinner at our friends, Corey & Julia's place ... we had already invited other friends, Kris & Sarah for Easter dinner but found out on Friday night that Corey had to go back out of town (after having been gone for 3 weeks!) So, we added Julia and her 3 kiddies to our list of guests for Easter dinner on Sunday. Sunday morning we went to church and found out that Corey had finished up what he had to do and was already back in town! Long story short ... they had to drive down to Edmonton to pick up Corey's truck at the airport and couldn't make it to dinner. So, at 4:00 Kris & Sarah came over and we feasted ... baked ham, roasted chicken, asparagus, carrots, cheddar biscuits, scalloped potatoes - and strawberry trifle for dessert. It was a lot of food, but so good :P After dinner we relaxed to let our food digest! We didn't take alot of pics ... but here are a few.

Fletch hanging around the kitchen while we cooked ... waiting for yummy handouts.


And, of course the token shot of me and my belly! 34 weeks as of yesterday ... getting there!


Kris & Sarah brought us an Easter basket of goodies ...



Today we are relaxing at home and doing a little more work on the nursery ... gotta get that done!

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Seriously spoiled baby!

My sister in law, Sharon (& Rick too) sent us a 'Baby Shower in a box'! I had to wait until we could get them on webcam before I opened it ... but wow! They are already spoiling their niece and she's not even here yet - but, don't get me wrong, we definitely appreciate it. So ... here's what we got:









And, this last picture is of things chosen specially by Uncle Rick ; )


It was fun having all these gifts to open at once ... thanks guys : )

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Teeniest Tiniest bathing suit

Yesterday I bought baby her first swimsuit - I felt I had to share it with everyone because its just so cute : ) Can't wait to see her in it.


Her wardrobe is expanding quickly, especially when Mommy goes shopping! I think she has almost as many clothes as her Dad ; )




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Peter's a big boy now

Its finally happened .... after 5 years of marriage and a lot of nagging and lecturing - I finally got Peter to eat a salad!! I know, its truly an amazing feat ... so amazing that I took some pictures just so you would all believe me. He's finally come to the conclusion that he needs to eat veggies if he wants our kids to - so he took the plunge. Now, the first salad attempt wasn't too good, but that was just because he didn't like the dressing. Today at lunch we had Greek salad - and that one he liked, he actually liked it! I'm so proud : )




Also .. on a sidenote - we've been having amazing weather here in Cold Lake - the spring thaw has begun. Today we went out for a walk on the lake (it is still very frozen) to enjoy the sun and freedom from winter jackets! We forgot to bring a ball for Fletch, so instead Peter made snowballs - which is what he is doing in the picture. I think Fletch enjoyed these more than a regular ball because he got to eat them : )




By the way, the baby ticker here on the blog is off by about 2-3 days, so I am actually 32 weeks pregnant today. We've got about 8 weeks to go ... hard to believe - but we're (almost) ready for the challenge!

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31 weeks, a new haircut and a double chin!

Just some new pics that we've taken over the last week or so ... Peter had some fun taking one from the floor making me look enormous! He thought it was pretty funny though ... thanks alot Peter!




Also, yesterday we took a trip to Edmonton to clear our UK shipment through customs. It is finally here and is being delivered tomorrow! We are really looking forward to having our bed again - we've been sleeping on a very small double bed ... not good. While we were there, we bought our baby stroller/infant car seat. I am particularly excited about this because when I was a kid my doll stroller was just the most fabulous toy ever! I used to take it with me for walks, push it around the house and even to the grocery store with my parents : ) Its fun, and kinda weird, to have a real one ... soon we'll have a baby to put in it - now, we just have to practice using those darn buckles!




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