House Love

I LOVE our house.

What do I love about it? Let me count the ways/things

-i love having not one but 2 hallways

-i love having 2 bathrooms=not having to wait if someone is already in one

-i love our big windows

-i love having plug outlets in the hallways=i can plug in a nightlight at night

-i love having a front door that seals properly

-i love having 2 decks

-i love our fire pit that bishop wilde found for us. it is totally awesome!

-i love having a doorbell

-i love that we can open our windows and not worry about flies coming in through torn screens

-i love my laundry room!

-i love having the space to have people over for dinner

most of all, I love that it's ours!

i have yet to put a hole in the wall...well, except for tanner's chore chart but i am working on that this weekend. i have to paint some more frames and then decide what pictures i'm putting in them. then i have to map it out on the wall. i guess that's one of the few things i'd like for christmas or a housewarming gift is some stuff to put on my walls. i have tons and tons of pictures but i don't really have art work. i'm still looking for a bristle mat as well.

so i got my ears pierced last weekend. i am kind of excited about it.

i've been kind of stressed out a bit lately so matt told me i could book a weekend away with one of my best friends so susanne and i are heading down to kallispell the september long weekend...i mean how awesome is that! matt is seriously the BEST!

next up is a possible vacation at christmas out east...like new york east! my cousin lives in Connecticut and they live an hour away from nyc so we are hoping to be able to go for christmas. if not, we'll go next summer. matt wants to go to fiji (we've been watching the bachelorette) and i told him i would probably literally die there. it would be far too hot for me.

anyways, so that about it for now.

Marathon post

Here is Tanner "warming" up. It was a really hot day so there wasn't much we needed to do to warm up.



Getting ready for the gun to go. Tanner is a little sensitive to loud noises so he was covering his ears for this reason


Here we go!

There's my boys!



The proud marathoner with his medal


Matt always makes funny faces when I take his picture eating so Tanner thought it would be funny if he did it. Subway provided ALL who participated (weather they were just parents or marathoners) a 6 inch with an apple and juice box.

We had to hike back to the car (we parked back at the start line) and I took this beautiful picture on the way back.


We had a picnic at Aunty Elaines after the Canada Day parade.


We also attended our first ever Raymond Stampede. It was perfect. Not too long and we actually knew some of the competitors so that was a bonus.

Summer happenings

-We've been swimming A LOT! I gotta work on my tan a bit so any chance we get to go to the pool, we're there.

-we can finally park in our garage! okay well, we're not suppose to be driving over the sidewalk they poured last week, but it's just sidewalk...it's not like i'm parking on the sidewalk. i'm driving over it.

-my cousin, diane, and i had a girls night out. we went to tony romas for appetizers, then to marble slab for ice cream.

-our phone is finally working! matt suspected it was the peg that the sidewalk formers nailed into the ground and sure enough when they pulled the peg/spike out, the phone started working again.

-we had an overnight trip to calgary. tanner had a dentist appointment (no cavities)

-a trip to the zoo in the blazing hot sun

-me back to work and matt on vacation now

-sleepovers...not me, tanner

-reading (secret daughter and now i'm starting 'the help')

-couch looking (not buying yet. i feel like we have to be in love with it not just like it)

we have my mom coming this weekend and then next weekend matt and tanner are going up to calgary while i stay home to help with the triathlon here in town. our town and the office i work in put it together so i feel a small sense of responsibility to help out. i know i don't have to but i was in it participating last year and this year i didn't train (okay let's be honest, i didn't WANT to do it this year) so i am helping by counting peoples laps in the pool (see, again, working on my tan...lol. it's like my version of sitting at the beach).

we have seen 2 movies, 'the Lincoln lawyer' and 'Arthur'. both were good stories but they did have some language in them. we are taking tanner to see cars 2 this week for our family fun day. he's been wanting to see it for a while. he's seen kung fu panda 2 and mr.poppers penguins while he was in calgary on his summer adventures with my mom and sisters.

matt's mom is coming the first week in august. we are determined to finally go to writing on stone.

what else are you doing this summer?

Waterton Park

Last Wednesday we headed out to Waterton for an afternoon picnic and some fun in the water.






Aunty Elaine always has toys for the kids. She brought along these nets that the kids "fished" with.



Emerson was so cool

We got to see this wind sailor do some tricks.


There was also boats for the kids to go boating in.


Jeremy (my cousins boy) was happy to help Ana and Emerson float around in the boat


And of course, who could miss the Falls?



This isn't the greatest picture of me but it's the best out of the 3 of them.

My cousin and her family (her husband wasn't able to come with her...boo)


I just thought this picture was so sweet.



Megan and Emerson (Dean had to go back to work this week...boo)


Such cute boys!

We had to be kinda sneaky about getting this picture but isn't it darling?


And how can you go to Waterton and NOT get ice cream?


L-R:Emerson, Jeremy, David, Ana, and Tanner


Can you see Emerson trying to hold Tanner's hand? He's not a big hand holder anymore so it's a big deal if he does. Seconds after this was taken, Tanner let Emerson hold his hand....ahhhhhh