Warm Weekend

On St. Patrick's Day, I met up with a bunch of friends at the local Irish pub. 

Friday evening, I had a date with KK at the frozen yogurt place, and we roamed around IKEA too.

Tuesday, I took KC and Mads to an indoor play place because they are both on spring break. Bobs and JJ are not on spring break until Easter, and then the little boys will no longer be on their break.

Mormor was supposed to go to Germany this past weekend and we had her over for coffee, but plans were changed.

Bobs put on a long magic show for Mormor and sometimes had Mads as an assistant. Other times, Mads would point out how Bobs was doing the magic.

We went swimming at Westside with KC and JJ on sunday and came back for waffles and a walk.

Spring is Early in Alberta

Mads really loves his stuffed animals, especially Piggy, right now.

It's been such a mild late winter, that we headed out to the cabin to enjoy the weather.

Mads is wearing a power rangers toque that we bought on Etsy (from someone in Ontario who has an online business knitting kids toques).

There were still people ice fishing, much to our surprise.

We found an old Madonna CD and Mads was dancing to it.

On saturday, we went to the park in Sylvan Lake, and then caught the latest Disney's Cinderella at the small Cinema. The boys were ok with it. At the dancing part, during the grand ball, Mads pronounced quite loudly that this was boring.

Blog Catch Up

Bobs has finished his climbing classes.

Bobs has also been to a lot of birthday parties lately so Mads is hanging out with mom and dad on special walks in Griffith woods.

We have had unbelievable weather. The toboggan hills have no snow.

Sunday, while Bobs was at a birthday party, we took Mads for a big slice of cake in Inglewood.

Dress Up as Your Hero or Fave Character Day at School

Bobs wanted to be a police officer. Not a power ranger or a super hero or even Minecraft Steve like he was last year. 

Family Day Weekend at Gull Lake

We noticed that E-man's pyjamas were similar to Bobs's sheets at the cabin. E-man pointed out correctly that he was wearing Moose and not deer.

I tried snowboarding at Medicine Lodge ski hill. Uncle Trevor let me use his gear. I had an ok time getting down to the beginners lift, but it took two tries to make up halfway up the hill. Once I got there, I couldn't even stand up on the board. I had no idea what I was doing. Oh well. I tried it.

Sarah and Seffy skied around a bit and Seffy made happy noises as they descended.

Mads went up once, and refused to ski the rest of the day. E-man wasn't very cooperative either, unfortunately. This was a bit of a surprise because they did so well at Winsport in November. As 4 year olds, they are both stubborn.

Cute little lodge eh? Sarah is on the rope pull here. It costs $10 to use just the rope pull, and a lot more to use the t-bar to get up further. We were fine with the kids using the rope pull.

JJ and KC arrived a bit later and were using the t-bar courses, so Bobs wanted to join them as he was having quite a lot of fun, to our glee. Daddy upgraded his pass and KK taught Bobs how to use the t-bar. Daddy went on another t-bar with JJ, and they wiped out.

Bobs and KK. Bobs likes to go straight down instead of doing his turns.

The weather was amazing. +10 and sun.

The next day, we went swimming at the Sylvan Lake pool which was also a lot of fun. There is a lot more snow at the cabin than in Calgary. We had a lot of shovelling to do when we got there.

KK got them all to build a snow fort.

Lots of snowmobiles were racing on the lake.

It was funny to see KK get annoyed at them all, and the smell of fuel from one going by. She said "Why can't they just move their bodies instead of sitting on their butts in a motorized vehicle?" as she cross country skied down the road with KC.

We copied the snow colouring idea from Snow Day and made the fort look beautiful.

Snow Day Preschool Carnival

Last weekend was rather cold so we set up a lot of the lego in the dining room.

This weekend, Mommy got up really early and set up for Snow Day, an annual carnival fundraiser for Mads' preschool.

The weather was great and many people from several surrounding communities came.

We had a live children's singer, face painting, henna, bake sale, bouncy castle, craft room, balloons, and outdoor fun.