A Few Pics

Here are a few pictures from when my mom was visiting. She hates when I post pictures of her, but I don't think she looks on here too often...lol

Holidays Almost Over!?!

Wow,
It is hard to believe that we only have 2 weeks left of our summer break and then back to our hectic schedules. Mike starts his hockey school tomorrow morning, so I guess today was he real last day of summer. He is excited to work with the kids and make some extra money of course. My brother Brad and his girlfriend are coming down on Wednesday and my dad and brother Joey are coming down on Friday!! So it will be pretty busy around the house. I am trying to get stuff done for school early this week so that I don't have to do much work when we have company. We start school on Aug. 24 this year because of the World Skills Competition being held in Calgary this year. They want the older students to be a part of it, so we will start a week earlier, but they will make up for our early start by adding some extra days off onto other holidays.
Mike and I had a good weekend. Mike got to go golfing on Saturday morning and then we went for lunch on a roof top patio down the street. We were lucky to enjoy some more warm weather. Saturday evening we sat on the porch, enjoyed some music and drinks, and then had a fire.
Some bad news this weekend...Gordon has to put his cone back on :( He ate a piece of fish and because of his allergies he got really itchy and cut his face. Luckily it isn't too bad, so it shouldn't be on for too long.

More Pics

Here are a few more...

Mom's Visit

My mom came in Thursday evening after a long day in the airport and on the plane. We gave her a quick tour of the house and had a pretty early night. On Friday we got up early and headed to the Farmer's Market. We bought some potatoes, peas and some different types of cheeses. Then we headed to Pho, a vietnemese restauraunt, for some delicious noodle bowls. It was pretty nice outside, so we spent a lot of time on the front porch enjoying the heat. We had steak and caesar potato salad for dinner...soooo good! Saturday it ended up being 30 degrees outside. Mike made breakfast and then we headed out to IKEA. After IKEA we went for a drive downtown to show her all the neat places. We spent a lot of time outside as well. We laughed our heads off listening to the icecream truck which was playing Christmas music! :) Mike made us a delicious risotto for dinner. Sunday morning we headed out to Banff after an early breakfast at Ricky's. It was very busy and very very hot! We went up the Gondola and took some great pictures from the top. Then we walked around to look in the shops. We ended up eating at the Grizzly House...one of our favourite restaurants. It is a fondue place and it is fantastic! After dinner we stopped by the Candy Shop and then headed for home. When we got home we had a fire, which didn't last long because it started to rain. Monday and Tuesday we spent most of the day at home because of the cold, rainy weather. Mom is cooking a roast and also making buttertarts...mmmm. I am sure going to hate to see her go tomorrow morning. Anyways, here are a few pictures from the last few days. Enjoy!
One more week and the rest of the family will be down!