Excuse me; can anyone tell us how to get to SPRING? We seem to have missed the turn somewhere.

This was Saturday April 12th. It was 70F or +21C I had Haddon outside in his Bumbo that someone bought him. He loves it and so do I! They are so expensive that I never thought I would have one. Another reminder of the generosity of the people we love at Meadowlands.

Yes the snow was ALL melted and gone and I was thinking buds on the trees this week. But actually we are having the worst storm of the whole season! The Blizzard started Saturday the 19th and is still going on Tuesday. You might think that in Canada it is always a blizzard. Actually when it snows it is usually a really nice gentle snow. This is our second blizzard of the season. A blizzard is very cold, very windy and lots of snow. We do not like blizzards especially in April. The church office and school has been closed the last two days. Schools in Alberta don't close for snow days; they would always be closed. So you know it is pretty bad. We have probably gotten about 2 feet of snow but some of the blown snow drifts are amazing! And we are at the end of April right???

This is how Haddon likes to spend a snow day....

Until Hudson goes in to wake him up. Hudson wants to play! So later Hudson loads all his Noah's Ark animals plus some extras onto Haddon. Haddon didn't seem to mind. Haddon it is just the beginning!!

The Sea Lion Show

Kevin was off work on the 14th of April so we went hiking.
It started to rain and then sleet so we headed to West Edmonton Mall (the largest mall in the world)
They have a Sea Lion Show every day so we stayed for the 2:00 show.
When we got into the car afterwards Hudson said "I have never seen a Sea Lion before!" :)
It is fun to see your kids see and learn new things.

The Sea Lion Roaring Like a Lion

The Sea Lions would dive off this plateform into the water and then jump up as high as the plateform and hit a hanging ball with his nose.

I think it is funny to have all the people shopping just stopping to watch a sea lion show in the middle of the mall. Only at WEM

It's Spring!???

Yes for weeks and weeks it has been above freezing and almost everything was all melted.

We woke up today to this! All that snow is from last night. Look at the bench out there! It is still coming down like crazy too.

Spring Break, time to pull out the sleds again.

Kevin washed the car yesterday because it wasn't going to snow again right???

Will we ever see green again??? :{

Spring where are you?

Anyone want to send us plane tickets to Hawaii?? ;)

Ladies Getaway

Holly went with 3 friends for a little getaway to the mountains for 3 days.

Hudson stayed home and spent the day at different friends houses and then had "Men's Nights" with daddy.

Haddon came with the ladies and we all had a great time.

We ate, scrapbooked, ate, hiked, ate, shopped, had "girl time", laughed, ate, shared and ate some more.

It was a refreshing encouraging time for us all.

I thank the Lord for some fun godly Canadian friends!

Haddon slept most of the time we were out hiking and shopping.

We thought this church was a beautiful picture up against the mountains.

Ladies Getaway

The 3 sisters!

The mountains in the back are called 3 Sisters and those are my sisters in Christ!

Melissa and Lizane

Haddon enjoying the ride

Happy 3 Month Birthday Haddon!

I wanted to get a picture of the boys in their bighorn sheep outfits. They both are outgrowing them too fast! Haddon is a slobber mess (teething??) but a cute one at that. :)