The rest of Canada

Here is the rest of what happened during our SUPER FUN vacation!!!

Water time! We had TONS OF FUN in Anna's backyard one HOT afternoon!! She had the perfect set up of water things and it was seriously awesome:

Kayla and Elizabeth:

Mark tentatively observing the slip n slide:

Stomping in the bubbles!

Kansas taking Elizabeth for a ride:

Sprinkler under the trampoline fun!!

Aunt Anna eventually got Elizabeth into the pool!

And into this for about 3 seconds...

And that was the end of pool time!

Annie was SO TIRED and not having that much fun until...

Freezies were brought out!!!

And granola bars:

Elizabeth dumping grass on Annie!

Then it was finally time to check out the community pool/water features! This place WAS SO AWESOME!!!!! The kids had SO MUCH FUUUUNNNN!!!!!

Elizabeth jumped right in:

Mark took a little longer but eventually he made his way in and walked up and down the stairs a million times:

Annie was pretty much in heaven!! Aunt Cassandra took her wherever she wanted to go! She would point to something, Cass would take her over there and she would be fascinated!! 

On this trip Annie decided several times that she would not eat unless she could do it herself!! That resulted in some very messy meal times!

Which then led to some really fun baths!

Another thing we got to do a  lot of was play in the sand at the beach volleyball courts! It just happened to be the Summer Games and Grandpa was in charge of the beach volleyball. So while we checked in on him (and cheered for Hannah!) the kids got LOTS of play time in the sand!!!

It was VERY HOT for most of our time in Canada!!

I don't know what the kids loved more, playing in the sand or watching Kansas play BASKETBALL!!!! For some reason they thought this was so cool! And Kansas is AMAZING for only 12!! Check out #9!!

This picture was hilarious of Elizabeth! She hates the sun being in her eyes (and the wind blowing on her, she insists on where a hat when the wind blows!) so this day she doubled up with her sunglasses and Daddy's hat!

Annie learned this fun trick during all our long hours in the car!

One of the cutest things was walking in to check on the twins and seeing them snuggled up with Daddy on the bed! For the week he was there he stayed in a room with them and I think they loved having him all to themselves!!

Late nights and lots of sun made for some overtired kids:

We had lots of fun with Grandma's bubble machine:

Grandpa even took Mark for a ride on the lawn mower!!! Mark was in heaven!!

The kids insisted on digging in Grandma's flower bed! I don't know why they kept returning there, at least they never dug up any flowers I guess!

Several morning were spent eating breakfast on the deck, the weather so beautiful!!

Then they would hop down and go straight to PLAYING!!!!

Until I made Mark come back for a hair cut which he wasn't happy about!

But look how handsome he looks!!

Plus he got to watch Curious George, so it wasn't all that bad!

They loved playing on the piano!!!!

We did some fall shopping for them up there and when I got home with their purchases, we had a mini fashion show. Annie put this dress on and all the girl cousins started cheering. She was SO EXCITED that everyone was paying attention to her, and she LOVED the dress!!! I had to get it on video, you will also see the twins running in to see what's going on. Mark is wearing a new sweater and Elizabeth's got some new boots on!

There was a lot of dancing. Elizabeth busted out some new and really good moves while we were up there!

Here they are all playing on the piano and dancing along too!

After the first week was up I decided that me and the kids were not ready to go home!! We were having too much fun! So we sent Daddy home for a week or two and he was planning on just driving back up to get us. We only lasted another week and my super awesome parents volunteered to drive us more than halfway!!! My parents are so good at making things sound like we are doing them a favor! They claimed that they wanted to shop at Target and needed a break from working around the house. I still can't tell if they were telling the truth, LOL!! While we were away Daddy didn't do too much playing!!!! He worked long hours and then took advantage of no distractions and got some work done on his Rover:

And then dug up our side yard and replaced it with gravel:

Looks great!!! 

We had to convince him to take one night off! Crazy awesome guy!!

Thank you to everyone who helped make our stay so much fun!! We love and miss you all!!