The Corn Maze

I have always wanted to go to a corn maze so I finally packed my kids up and we went for a Family Home Evening activity. Elaine, Jared, Elle, and Paige came too. They actually found out about this fun place and told me about it. There was so many different activities to do besides the corn mazes. They even had pig races for us to watch. It was very entertaining and the whole evening was a blast.

Our Harvest

Canning peaches every year is such an accomplishment for me. This year I didn't just can peaches but I pickled carrots, pickled cucumbers, I picked raspberries and bottled them and made jam too, and picked crab apples off the trees on the median in Okotoks and made crab apple jelly. I did all of this with the help of my sisters. I love Fall time!

Brett bringing in OUR harvest from the fields.

Echo Lake, MT

We love going to the Lake to soak in the sun, swim and look for turtles, go on long walks, have camp fires and sleep in tents, go for boat rides, and play with family...especially cousins. Echo Lake has a lot of great memories.

On our way home, driving on the road to the sun, it started to snow/hail. We had to pull the car over and experience winter in early September.

Happy Happy Birthday Nate

Guess who's turning two in our house today. NATE. Happy Birthday to You!! We love you and we are so grateful your a part of our family.

Nate right now loves to:
-Act silly and he makes us laugh all the time
-He is talking so clear and with sentences
-He can count to 10 and say his ABC's
-He loves to say the prayer all the time. He says "please bless mom, dad, Ki and me"
-He loves to skip. It's more like a side shuffle....he has a lazy leg when he does it.
-He loves to scare you by saying "Roar....Be Happy"
-He loves his dad and asks for him all the time.
-He calls his grandparents by "Grandpa Kim and Grandpa Joan, Grandpa Dave and Grandpa Sharon". It use to be that his grandparents were "Grandma Dave and Grandma Kim".
-He plays really well with his Brother and cousins and loves living in Canada. I hear him singing "O Canada..we love you" (because he doesn't know the O Canada song so he makes things up)
-He also loves singing other songs like "I don't want to lose your love tonight" by the Outfields, "Living on a prayer" by Bon Jovi and "I gotta feeling" by the Black eyed peas.
-He loves to dance and have dance parties with everyone.
-He only loves reading one book at a time but over and over again. He really loves a bubble book right now so I decided to do a bubble theme for his birthday.

Happy 2nd Birthday Nate!

Playing at Playtopia with the Baker Family

Summer Fun 2009

Magrath Days

Summer wouldn't be summer with out going to little town parades. We've had to miss out on Magrath Days and the parade for the last 3 years so it was really fun to be with family and not miss out on these fun moments.

Peru Trip Part I - Lima, Peru

July 8th- 23rd

Brett served in the Peru, Lima North mission 10 years ago and has wanted to go back to his mission for a long time. After graduation we finally found the perfect time to travel. It was such a great experience. An eye opening experience at that. It's just kind of crazy to think that Brett lived there for 2 whole years. In every place that we traveled in Peru we found families that Brett met on his mission and we even meet up with 3 of his Peruvian companions.

We traveled a lot on the trip but I'm so grateful we did it. It was an experience that I will never forget.

So we flew from Calgary, Canada --> Los Angeles --> Costa Rica --> Lima, Peru(stayed for 4 days) --> Iquitos, Peru(stayed for 4 days) --> Lima,Peru --> Tarapoto, Peru(stayed for 3 days) --> Lima, Peru(stayed for 1 day) --> Cusco, Peru/ Machu Picchu(stayed for 4 days) --> Lima, Peru(one night) --> El Salvador --> Los Angeles(one night) --> Back to Calgary. whew!!

Tired from all the travelling

The 2nd day in Lima we wanted to go to the temple but once we got there we found out our recommends had expired. I guess from graduation to the big move we didn't realize that they'd expired. I was really sad that we couldn't go in.

but we really enjoyed talking to the temple president and walking around the temple grounds. It is such a beautiful temple and it's so peaceful.

We walked down a few streets to a resturant and I noticed this wall with broken bottles on top. I guess they do that to keep people from jumping the wall.

We went to the Peru MTC (missionary training center) where it all began for Brett. It has changed quite a bit in 10 tears, especially the trees.

the cafeteria

Driving around Lima. It's kind of sad to see how people live.

Our loot from the Lima market

Our Hotel El Gran Bolivar

This is an area where Brett lived on his mission.

Wenceslao and Brett - Brett baptized him

Vasquez Family- fed Brett everyday in this area
They even feed us when we stopped to visit them

Segura Family-fed Brett everyday

Marcos Family- Brett lived and ate at their house

Montes Family- Brett taught this family the discussions and baptized one of his sons
When we found them David told us that he got baptized 2 months ago

Our wonderful taxi driver who helped us find all those families. He was so patient with us.

A restaurant right on the beach. They asked us what country we were from and brought over a Canadian flag to our table. Then we ate the food and nearly died! Just about ruined our trip. We were lucky to have some medication handy and were okay the next day.
They had a few of these containers at all the airports that were filled with nail files, scissors, knives, guns, blow darts, butcher knives and more. It was just kind of funny to think that the officers would find all those things on people.