Happy Weekend

We spent the weekend down in Southern Alberta, participating in a full weekend of family events. On Friday evening, we were able to go to the temple with Sarah for the first time and enjoyed watching her participate in that. Janeen, Kari and Barrett were on babysitting duty back at the hotel, and everything went very well...life savers!
On Saturday morning, we got up and checked out of our hotel and headed to the park and a car show before we made the drive to Lethbridge for the remainder of the weekend.

The kids had a blast racing down the slides and checking out the bumblebee car, the Doc Hudson and the mini jeep. There were some pretty sweet cars, and some pretty sweet owners.


Then we headed over to the temple to get a few pictures with the kids and stop at the distribution center.

We also noticed that our owl friend is still making the temple window his home.

We then made the trip to Lethbridge. Upon arriving, we stopped to get gas and didn't realize that we would be stopping for good. The van wouldn't start. We finally diagnosed that it was the starter, and Tyler, Barrett and Scott set out to fix it, while the kids and I jumped into Kari and Barrett's van to get to the hotel and check in. Pain in the butt, but it worked out that it happened on the day when nothing else was going on, so that was a blessing.
The kids went for a dip in the hotel pool and gained a lot of confidence in their swimming skills there, thanks again to Auntie Janeen. With waterwings on, they practiced their floating and swimming, to the point where it was hard to get them out of the pool at 10pm. But they slept gloriously!

Logan even enjoyed a dip in the pool after dinner.

On Sunday, we went to church with Kari and Barrett and enjoyed participating in the blessing of their new baby, Luke. It was a pretty great day. We were all so happy that this miracle baby had finally arrived and is so healthy. Kari is loving being a mom, of course, and can't help but cuddle her baby constantly. Then we had a quick bite to eat back at Kari and Barrett's, before the drive home. And of course, we took the opportunity to take a picture of all the grandkids. We couldn't get them all to look at one camera at once, but at least no one is crying.

(Jacob, Max, Logan, Lucy, Luke, and Sarah)
Driving with a baby is never fun, but the weekend went surprisingly well. Everyone slept well and behaved as well as could be expected. So it was actually a stress relief to me, rather than a stress causer.