Canadians don't celebrate President's Day, but there is a national holiday on the same day called Family Day. The schools make it into Family Week since we have Monday off for Family Day and Thursday and Friday the teachers have to go to Teacher's Convention.
So we just enjoyed a week holiday.
Here are the highlights:
Sledding behind our 4-wheeler
All the girls went on a horseback ride up the road without saddles. Don't you love Carly's goggles?
We finished a Super Saturday project that I didn't get to do on Super Saturday. 3 months later. Better late than never.
Lucy broke Grandpa and Grandma's best chair. We took this picture so they can say good-bye before it heads to the dump.
Day in Waterton
The Lee cousins came so we could go cross-country skiing in Waterton. Well, after an hour of thinking and discussing, we decided it was too windy and plus they didn't have enough ski equipment left for us to rent.
Plus on our drive into the park, the wind took Sarah and fishtailed her van back and forth across the road. It scared us.
Here are the helpful comments we had while we were having our debate:
Taylor: We could just ski up to the lake if you are afraid of driving; maybe we could just ski down those stairs in the lodge instead.
Lucy: Please can we go skiing.
Kaden: Why wouldn't we?
Julia: If we are having doubts, we shouldn't ignore them.
Jill: Can't you just decide already? This is taking forever.
Man at the desk: Why don't you drive all the way to Cameron Lake and back before you decide. You do have a lot of kids with you. I guess if you really want to, you can, but we won't give you a refund if you change your mind.
So we decided to just drive to Cameron Lake, eat lunch and play in the snow. It turned out to be really fun. We jumped off a bridge, went on a hike, and went sledding.
We were driving down the mountain after our fun in the snow:
Carter: "Who planted all of these trees?"
Kaylynn: "Jesus"
Lucy: "Or Paul Bunyon"
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| The windy drive into Waterton |
And of course to end the day, we stopped in Mountain View for ice cream.
We had two rodeos this week.
The girls rocked the goat tying at both rodeos. Jill placed in breakaway in Claresholm. The girls did good in the team roping, too. Hanna was the poor child who didn't get any pictures taken of her at the Cardston rodeo. Blame it on the camera batteries.
Other highlights:
Austin and I went to go to ward temple night and searched unsuccessfully for Austin's temple recommend. He figures it went through the laundry. He got a new one so we went on a temple date on Friday night. It was a small session, which we love. The prayer blessed the youth of the church and then the parents of the youth. It was for me.
Austin and Jill came in the house and I was sitting on the kitchen counter. They asked what I was doing up there. I said, "Just doing what every good woman does who just saw a a mouse run under the couch."
Austin and Hanna tried to catch it, but it ran back into its hiding place by the water heater.
Fun week - now back to the real world.
