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Kaleigh's shower

road trip home

After a lovely visit with mom in Calgary Tanya joined mom and on on the drive back to Manitoba. We stayed in Cypress Hills along the way.

Calgary Flooding

Our good friend Keith was visiting, and able to witness the Calgary Flood

Shannon's Wedding

Iberostar Costa Dorada in Puerta Plata was excellent. For one week I relaxed, I partied, I laughed, I cried. Everything was taken care of. I found myself asking "Why did I wait so long to take a vacation?" My sister was the most beautiful bride, and so easygoing. I see why she has such a huge social circle.

Here is how I spent my last day there. I went for an early morning walk on the beach with dad. But we wandered off the path to look for birds. We found a parrot after which we felt the need to celebrate with an afternoon drink. On the way to the lounge we rounded up aunties and uncles for a liquor tasting and laughter, then met mom afterwards for a nice dinner and show. This was followed by lounge drinks with Tanya and Shannon/friends. How can you beat that? Its tough but there are options, (and free ones, at that) snokelling, spa-time, reading a book with the sounds of sprinklers, rusting leaves and birds.

shannons shower and stagette

Shannon's wedding shower weekend was a success. Mom, dad and I gave personality to each and every decorations we made. There were lot of laugh out loud pictures drawn to demonstrate and decipher? Wedding advice at the shower along with a revival of Kenny's records. We had a grrreat time afterwards with jungle themed shots and party games at the bachlorette party. Shannon has great friends who worked hard to get this thing organized. So much fun!

road trip

 Sean , mugs and I are always keen to get out of the city on weekends if possible. This weekend we headed east to Drumheller. We took the scenic route, checking out an abandoned house on the the way there and the Drumheller Coal mine site on the way home.

shame on you...

Dog shaming... enough said

It's christmas in heaven..

It's that time of year again, and picking out a tree with Sean and mugs feels like "its Christmas  in heaven" except the fact that is was super windy out there today. We managed just fine picking out our tree while mugs did her own chop job to the willows. When we returned home it was decorating time.