what a whirlwind

It was a bittersweet day when we packed all our suitcases and left the city we love and came back home. We couldn't be happier to be back home, despite the crummy weather, minor fender bender, and yard full of weeds.

Ryan's last day of work. Pretty sweet view of the city from his building.

Sadie with one of our doormen. She loved them & they loved here. They always said hello, high fived, shook her hand when she came and went, oh and always opened the door for us.

I think we kept it together pretty good on our travel day. It was a freaking long day and we were all troopers and survived. Ryan doesn't look one bit exhausted?

I was not kidding about the weeds, they were BRUTAL and Unbelievable. It's lucky we didn't have a complaint, I guess we just earned the white trash title in the neighborhood. Honestly you really had to see it to know, or I should say you really had to pull them to know how bad it really was. This deserves husband bragging. Ryan did most of the work, I can't believe how fast he had the job done, it was ridiculous how big they were.

We came home to Canada just in time to celebrate Canada Day. So we were of course down in Raymond celebrating with family & friends.


Sadie who had been cousin starved for the last few months was rearing to go and got her fill of all of them. She did not stop the first day we got to my parents, honestly we were beat and she kept going, and going.

More cousin time in the tub

It was so fun keeping up with these two, most of the time.

Where is the hot summer days of Popsicles and sprinkles and backyard pools? We NEED you.


I stayed down in Raymond all so I could have a girls night with some of my favs. These girls are my true original GNO girls and I am so glad we are still doing it. It was soo worth it staying up way too late, and trying to function the next day. Isn't that what a girls night is all about? That is how you define a good girls night and a really good girls night. Thanks for the memos ladies.

I love that we forced Sadie to go to the Stampede. When we got back to Calgary she was a little sick, if you can't see. The Stampede only comes once a year and Ryan got 'free tickets' so you see we HAD to go. In hind sight I wish we would've passed on the 'free' Stampede tickets (it turned out they cost us much more than they were worth). We would've avoided the annoying Calgary traffic, missed hearing some choice words from Ryan, we'd be a few dollars richer and no car repairs on our car or the taxi we rear ended. (For those wondering Ryan was driver at the time.)
It wouldn't be a night at my parents if my Dad didn't take a turn calming and snuggling Sadie back to sleep.