Our final Alberta post 🙂

After having breakfast with Brian and Annalee we had a nice mellow afternoon before heading over to my parents home for a family BBQ and a visit with my Godparents, Linda and Norman.

My parents yard is really pretty and lush with flowers and plants. They have a fountain which Claire & Rhys zeroed in on almost immediately! It was a hot day so we let them loose in the water . They got drenched very quickly but had a great time! My sister and her family came over and we all shared a delicious meal that my Mom made and which my sister and Dad helped to cook. Thanks guys! It was super yummy 🙂

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Aunt Linda and Uncle Norman came by just as we were finishing up and we had a great visit with them. It has been a few years since we last had a visit and it was the first time Claire & Rhys met my godparents. It meant a lot to me to have that time with them. Although it was a fairly brief visit it really was great to catch up.

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My sister Sarah, niece Michaela and my mom all have their birthdays in July & August so Jimmy and I picked up a DQ ice cream cake and we sang them  ‘Happy Birthday’. It is always sad to miss all those important dates with my family throughout the year so it was nice to help celebrate in person.

We said farewell and traveled back to the hotel for one last night in Medicine Hat. The next day we traveled to Calgary where my parents joined us for one last visit in our final hotel before we flew home the next morning. Claire had a hard time on take-off on the return trip and was again a ‘wild raccoon’ but it didn’t matter….we were sad to leave everyone but also happy to return to our sweet little home.

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Thank-you Mom and Dad for hosting our visit and we will come back very soon!