Charmed By Choice: July 2012

Yesterday we took our kidlets to the Calgary Stampede with some friends of ours. It was the first time for both kids, as well as being the 100th year anniversary for the Stampede.

It was actually the perfect day to go. Calgary has been having crazy heat lately and there were even reports of people passing out! Yesterday on the other hand was over cast with chance of rain, and we sure did get rain! Luckily it waited until the end of the night while we were waiting for the fireworks.

Anyways, as usual I took a ton of pictures and now I will share them with you!

My husband and our buddy, making P an animal balloon!

Big smiles at the Stampede

My little P, winning some prizes!

Nom nom noms and teddy bear cuddles for T.

Playing and making friends on the kids stage!

I really do have many many more photos of Stampede, but Blogger is not working right today with pics, but you get the main idea.
Aside from over crowded c-trains and a few to many girls who seemed to have forgot to wear clothes to the Stampede....it was a great day! :)

Hello my little blog!

So this past weekend was the Canada Day long weekend and while we would have loved to have gone camping, my hubby was on call for work. Instead, we stayed home, hung out with friends, reconnecting with friends from a long time past on my part and enjoyed the company of my fabulous parents and brother.

Naturally, I have a ton of pics, but I will just post the extra cute/fun ones.

Okay, where to start, on the Saturday, Lil P and I headed off to Wal-Mart to pick up some hamburger buns for a BBQ that night and then we were going to head back to pack up and go to the community lake. We ended up deciding to expand our BBQ and invite from friends over, fill up the kids pools and enjoy the sun from our own yard. My husbands buddy and his gf came over with there beautiful pups, my friend Steph came over and then later the evening a good friend from my past came over with his lovely fiance!

We had hamburgers, there was a pool dunking and an almost ruined cell phone (yay for rice, saves the day!) and then slowly into the evening, our numbers dwindled. Steph had to head out and not long after Ryan, Narissa and there pups headed out as well. That left Derek and I, the kids and Nick and Julie. We were all enjoying ourselves enough to not call it a night, instead we brought out the firewood and enjoyed a nice fire for a while.

I haz a cooookie

Daddy is mowing the lawn so we can set up the pool!

Yep, she stole my Ice Capp!

T-Rex says hi to Ember :)

Chalk hands!

Nothing beats a warm summer day with good food and good friends :)

The next day was actually in Canada Day! So the hubby and I took our little ones out to the Okotoks festivities, got balloons, pet some animals and then drove out to Chain Lakes for a picnic with Gramma and Papa. After our little picnic, we enjoyed the weather and lake until rain clouds started rolling in. We decided to head back to Okotoks and have a BBQ at my parents and do some hot tubbing until it was time to head over to the Okotoks Fireworks, where we met up with Nick and Julie.