Hey, Mrs. Wilson!

Before I get to that, I’m going to show you a couple pictures from our little pool party yesterday. Liliana has stopped hating the water and is now loving it. We put her in her little floaty thing but didn’t put her legs through. It was like she was in her own little dingy.

We let her just float around free for about an hour.

Kidding. We’re good parents. Most of the time.

We took her out of her floaty and put her right in the water and she loved it! Quite a change from a couple days ago.

Noah’s always so nice to smile nice for pictures for me. Such a dear.

Kaylie is still LOVING the pool. She’d live in there all day long if we let her.

You know, I rarely post pictures of myself on this blog. That is mostly due to the fact that I’m always the one behind the camera and therefore am never in front of it. And due to the fact that I pretty much hate all pictures of me. Well here’s on for you. From behind.

When I jumped into the pool, my back stung a little bit, but I figured it was the impact of my sweet cannon ball. When we got back inside, Noah and Kaylie kindly informed me that my back was bright red. When we left for our play date earlier yesterday, I had put sunscreen on my burnt-last-week shoulders, but had neglected my back. Brilliant, I am. These tan burn lines are perfect for the halter backless dress I plan to wear to the wedding on Monday. Awesome.

After the pool, I bathed the chlorinated kids. While we were waiting for Liliana to fall asleep, I decided to blow-dry Kaylie’s hair and see how straight I could get her curls.

I think I did alright, especially since I used just a blow-dryer with no brush, products, or straightener.

She totally loved it and kept saying, “I can’t believe how STRAIGHT my hair is!”

Gorgeous, in my humble non-biased opinion.

On to the trip!

We originally planned to leave at 6:00 this morning, but since we were up until almost 1:30 this morning, I wanted a bit more sleep so I could be at least half awake when I drove the 860 km.

We stopped at Peters’ Drive-In in Calgary for dinner. It’s our FAVORITE burger place and we stop at it (a couple times) every time we’re in or around Calgary.

Meet Tali. She’s Noah’s baby (19-year-old) sister. She sat in the back of the van with Kaylie the whole trip and we REALLY appreciated having her with us.

Liliana totally loved the the milkshakes. She kept trading off on the three that we had.

Right after this picture was taken, Liliana wasn’t getting anything out of the straw so she tipped it, spilling Oreo milkshake all over her sleeper. Poor kid! I guess it makes sense though, she has to tip her bottle and sippy cup to get stuff out, so why not a milkshake?

I went to the van to clean her up and change her while the others finished up their dinner. She was kind of a wreck (maybe due to the fact that she only napped 25 minutes of her usual FOUR HOURS) and did not want anything to do with the milkshakes that the others brought back with them.

We then traveled the last hour to Noah’s Alberta hometown, where he lived for 11 of his growing up years.

I was HOT and I wanted to be COOL so I put one foot out the window of our air-conditioning-deficient van to try to cool off. Noah was concerned that one of his old friends would see him in his MINI VAN with his wife’s FOOT OUT THE WINDOW. The poor guy. As his dad would say, Dat’s a wuff wun!

Is it just me, or does my leg look like a cankle in this picture? It looks humongous! I guess it’s because it’s resting oh so ladylike on my window frame …

Anyway.

We checked in to our hotel, went to see Nick, Teresa, Eva, and Kaitlyn for about half an hour and then came home and put the kids to bed. Then I got ditched, for the second night in a row by Noah and Tali. I love that he loves his sisters, but seriously, I EXIST TOO! Sheesh.

(note: I might be a little sarcastic sometimes. Don’t take anything I write seriously.)

The nomads are back now and we’ve got to find something to do tomorrow while we’re homeless. We have to check out by 11:00 am and we can’t get into the condo that we’re sharing with Noah’s family until 6:00 pm. We also get to hang out with the Braam Fam tomorrow, which I am totally looking forward to. I miss not seeing them and absolutely love the time we get to spend with them.

And I have to figure out how to meld tan lines and burn lines and try to make them look at least half natural. Wish me luck.