Travelling

So on our way to the states we had to drive right through Rouleau Saskatchewan ie. Dog River so of course we had to stop and take some pictures. They were filming that day but that was down town so we were able to take some pictures of the set.

Here is Wanda signing the guest book at the set.

The grain elevator that is painted with Dog River on two of the three sides visible from the Highway.



Right after we left "Dog River" we had to sit and wait. Don't you just love road construction season.
This is Wanda in ND we had pulled over so that I could drive again. If she doesn't like this photo then to bad she shouldn't pose like this.

So we left Carmose at 7am on Wed Morning. Got to our motel at 10pm in Minot ND after an hour time change so it was 14 hours on the road.

Hit the road again at 7am on Thurs and arriving in Minneapolis at 4:30. I was very happy to be back and excited to see everyone. Tomorrow afternoon I leave for camp in Wisconsin. I am going out for Indian food for lunch and some shopping today so that should be fun :D

Overdue Update

So let's start off with Greek Easter. It was great. The photo below is of the lamb on the spit. I had so much fun spending time with my friends two adorable kids. My friend was busy with other things so I was basically in charge of watching the kids.
The photo below is of when my sister was still in the hospital. We wheeled her to the patio door and then let her sit outside for a bit. She was becoming very tired of being in the hospital. Good thing she was only there for like four days. She would of gone nuts had she stayed any longer.


After she was released from Hospital she had to stay close by. So she moved into her brother in law's basement suite. It was a very nice set up. We each had our own room. Plus there was a bathroom and kitchen. The photo below is basically what she did for three weeks straight. She just lied in bed and watched TV and rested. Oh and did I mention she also gave me life advice. Like how I should wax my eyebrows and how I need to take the laundry out of the dryer right after it is done. :)
The photo below is one I took of Carolyn. She only let me take photos for like two minutes and she was so grumpy about even that. I didn't have to make sure I was getting nice photos instead I just had to take them and hope they turned out.


On May 14th Carolyn and I were picked up by her father in law at 6am and taken to the airport. First we dropped Carolyn off at the south terminal and got her bags taken care of for her. Then I got dropped off and had to wait a bit for my 9am flight. Carolyn arrived back home safely and is doing well. She had decided that she no longer needs to lie in bed 24/7. So she has been a bit more active and is doing fine. She is at 35 weeks and 2 days right now. At 36 she is completely in the clear and can have the baby in Creston. The midwife saw her yesterday and she said she is doing well. She is pretty sure that the baby will be born sooner rather than later. I am hoping for around 4:30pm on the 21st of June :) Because I will be in Creston then because I have a dentist appointment on the 25th and I am flying back into Spokane after Briefing Course.

So I have been back in Camrose for a week and have been working on getting some stuff done. I leave next Wednesday at 5:30 in the morning to head for the states. I will be there for just over three weeks. I am pretty excited about going back to Minneapolis.

I spent the long weekend in Tofield hanging out with the Langagers. It was a good time. On Sunday night Allison arrived. We went horseback riding on Monday with the youth group and it was so much fun. I was pretty happy. I had been wanting to go riding again for a long time.

Allison has been here with me all week hanging out. She heads back home tomorrow :( I am going to Edmonton for Friday and Saturday to help supervise the youth at the big YC conference. Then straight from there I will be going to Bethany's confirmation.

I have been pretty busy. Last night I went to bed early and probably fell asleep just after ten. It was amazing. The first time I had been in bed before 1am in over a month. It felt so nice to get such a good sleep. Plus I had the evening to myself which was nice since I hadn't had that in a long time.

I think that is all I am going to write for now.

Take Care

Sister Update and CLBI

So I wanted to post about CLBI but I knew it wouldn't be fair if I didn't update you about my sister first.

Carolyn and I are living in Coquitlam right now. She is on bed rest and is getting bored but is managing to stay happy. The only time she is negative is rare and it is usually about my clothing or my lack of waxing my eyebrows. Like I really care what they look like right now I hardly leave the house. Anyways it is going well. Right now it looks like I will be back in Camrose in less than 10 days that is as long as everything goes smoothly and she is able to be transferred to Trail or isn't going into labour as I am leaving for the airport. She talked to her midwife on the phone and she thinks the baby will be born pretty soon. She is dilated (2cm), almost completely efaced(sp?), and she has a short cervix so it will most likely be soon but who knows maybe this baby will decide to wait. I am hoping for a June 22nd birthday as I will be in Creston at the time to get my last two wisdom teeth removed. Carolyn has an appointment today so we went to it and also had a tour of the NICU cause if the baby is born soon it will have to spend a little bit of time there as it will have some feeding issues. It was good to go ahead and know what to expect. She showed us two babies that were born at 32 weeks which is what Carolyn already is. One was pretty tiny and had some issues. The other one was a decent size and mainly just had feeding issues. When Carolyn had an ultrasound 10 days ago they said the baby was already over 4lbs and was in the top percentile for size which is good. If Carolyn manages to make it full term this baby is going to be big.

So this post is longer than I expected so I am not going to post about CLBI tonight maybe later.