Oh Canada!

We just got back from our trip to Calgary yesterday and were welcomed back with uninviting arms by the 110 degree weather. The trip was a total success. The boys had a great time and even blessed us with two fairly easy and manageable flights and by sleeping in pretty much every morning until at least 7:30 and most days until 8:00 or 8:30 which I guess just means we were successful in waring them out. I shouldn't be surprised considering Oliver spent most days trying to keep up with his older big boy cousins and Wesley trying to keep up with his big brother and, of course, we were outside enjoying the weather as much as possible which did the trick of exhausting them quite well also. Here are some pictures from just a few of the events of the week.

Here are the boys at Riley Park. So nice to be outside and not be feeling faint from heat exhaustion.







We spent an evening with my dad's side of the family and here is a group shot.

We went to Calaway Park in the middle of the week which is an amusement park similar to Castles n Coasters (for my AZ readers) with probably a few more little kids rides. Oliver LOVED it. He ran around from ride to ride with literally no fear (except for one minor meltdown). We were happy the morning was a success and even more thrilled that the money we will spend to do Disney at the end of the summer will not be totally in vain.

On our last day we took the kids to the zoo. All the big kids came too which was GREAT because Mitchell and Jake have both spent a ton of time at the zoo over the years and the knew exactly where everything was so we covered the zoo quickly and very successfully, getting really good views of most animals. They were the perfect tour guides especially considering the attention span of a two and a half year old is less than lengthly.






Here is Oliver with his buddy, Jake. I am sure that Jake, Shane and Mitchell were totally sick of hearing their names by the end the week because one small boy was more than just a little enamored with them but us parents sure appreciated all their patience and the time the spent playing with him.
I am realizing I didn't do a super job getting pictures of the rest of the family that we saw and got to hang out with but at least I did better with this trip than the NY one:)