Life's Whirlwind Adventures

Well like every year since I've moved to Red Deer, we went back to Saskatchewan for part of the Christmas Holidays!! This year Chandler brought his friend with him and we were spending the New Years with my friend Estelle and her family again.  The drive to Saskatchewan was relatively uneventful, a forgotten phone was the most exciting thing to occur, which caused us to add an hour to our drive, (yes it was me that forgot my phone) but the roads were good, the weather was good and the kids were good!! The first part of my holidays I spent with my mom and my sister!! We had our Christmas on Boxing Day, Grandma made Hawaiian Meatballs (my fav) and we had presents!  It was fun, then the baby and I went to my sisters house and Lil Man had a sleep over with Grandma!! I also got my hair done while I was there. I was contemplating going short, like chin length short or shorter, but I wasn't quite ready for that instead I went darker!! I went caramel colour with peek a boo b...

For years I have asked my good friends the Carlos' to come up to Canada to visit me.  For years I have gone down to California to visit them, they have always opened up their homes for me and been willing to drive me around the Bay Area, helping plan trips to Disneyland, going on shopping excursions and just treating me like family.  I desired nothing more than to be able to do the same for them.  And after 20 years I was finally able to play host to Alex, Monica, James and Oscar.  It was a very happy occasion for me, I love these people as if they were blood family.  They are definitely part of the family I choose. Of course knowing they were finally coming up I had some planning to do, where was I going to take them, what did I want them to see, how much driving were we going to be doing?  All very important questions you see because I wanted to make sure they had a great time.  So I asked what they wanted to see, and they mentioned Saskatoon and S...