An Eventful Trip to Lethbridge

On April 26 Dave, Sunny and I packed up the car and headed off for a two week vacation to Salmon Arm and Lethbridge. We arrived in Salmon Arm late late LATE Tuesday night and got to spend a lovely two days with Daron, Shauna, Emry and Jettaya
 

~after some rubber arm twisting by Daron~

Shauna and I had a great break from mama-world while the kids (and Dave) napped and Daron worked. 

We jumped back in the car on Thursday morning to continue our looong drive to Lethbridge.

The Lethbridge chunk of our vacation was filled with friends, family and some much needed R&R. 

We got some time with my sister and her family which Sonia LOVED. It was awesome to get some face time with my sister to catch up with her. I definitely miss living in the same city as her!! 

Sonia, though, had a BLAST with her cousins Mackenzie(10), Dawson(7) and Kyle(1) and got to burn TONS of energy in the backyard (with Uncle Dave/Daddy) while Preggo#1 and Preggo#2 sat inside and got fatter!

We also got to spend a lot of time with the Boorsma's, Erik and Sandra. we played some Cranium
(the boys cheated again)
 and hung out while the little beans played in the livingroom.

And, of course, we spent some quality time at Backstreet West with Uncle Chris, Uncle Mark and Mister Joe.

After our time in Lethbridge we headed up to Calgary to surprise Dave's brother Daniel for his 30th birthday. He had thought that no one was coming to see him and that he was going to have a quiet night/weekend with his wife and new baby.

wrong.

We had a great weekend shopping, partying, swimming and OF COURSE meeting little Nova Evangeline - the newest little addition to the Blenkin family. 

While in Calgary, we stayed in a hotel with Faye and Rodney and Daron's clan. Our room was a little packed with three kids and four adults, but we made it work and it was a lot of fun!

We stopped in Salmon Arm again on the way back for 2 nights because we had an ultrasound appointment in Vernon to find out what our baby is! We got to see Auntie Sarah at work in the clinic AND see our little bean for the first time!

Good vacation overall!

Good to be home.