Canadian Adventure Part 5 - Cousins and Randomness

Here is a bunch of Random photos.

Our final  "Canadian" experience was to visit Tim Hortons - a donut and sandwich shop that is ALL over Canada.  It was a very tasty brunch!

 

Here are some cute cousin pictures

 

It happened to be my black day....I mean my birthday while we were there.  Nathan and Kathy did a really great job helping me celebrate.  I woke up and they had balloons and streamers hung up throughout the house.  They also bought me Doritos and Oreos - things that are unheard of at this Buckley house and physically hurt Kathy to buy :)  They also made me a really great cake - and Cooper helped put all the candles on - it was a big flame.
     

Leah had her first cake and really really enjoyed it!
   

On the way home there was an accident on the two lane highway that we had to go through.  We looked at this view for a good solid hour....awesome.

We also ran in to a really good storm and found this fantastic rainbow.  It kept getting bigger and brighter, then went to a double full rainbow.  It was the most vibrant, beautiful rainbow I have ever seen.

      

And that was our vacation!

Canadian Adventure Part 4 - Sunday

Sunday was another fantastic day full of fun and adventure.
Here we are preparing for church.

Kenzie getting crimped by Aunt Kathy

 Yes - those are blue wings.... manly aren't they :)  No - he didn't get to wear them to church.

Sandi is ready to go - and super cute!

Nate and Paul had to go to a different Ward and they borrowed Kathy's brother's car....and aviators.  Don't they look hot?  Jack got to ride with them over to dinner.

Dinner at the Peterson's - fun,  but a little redneck :)

  







Movie's in the "media room" at the Peterson's - they even got popcorn.
 
These are some of my favorite pictures:

  

Canadian Adventure Part 3 - O'Brien Provincial Park on the Wapati River

On Saturday we went to O'Brien Provincial Park and played in the Wapati River.  It was very cold and I planned on sitting on the edge with Kathy, but that didn't happen.

Playing a little soccer while waiting to swim

Scouting out the perfect place

 Mosley was so excited to come!

You can't see her well - but that is Kathy and Leah in the distance - beautiful park!

Wapati River

Chilling on the side of the river

I got brave and decided to go in the river and try to cross it by myself....Nater had to help me.

I'm not sure why Nate did the war paint - but we had SO much fun floating down the river.

All of us in the cold cold River - if we weren't all in swimsuits we would use this for our Christmas card.

Cute kiddos floating in the river

Canadian Adventure Part 2 - Musreau Lake (aka Dr. Pepper Lake)

Day two in Canada we went to Musreau Lake which is about 50 minutes south of Grande Prairie.  Jaron and Kenzie decided to call it Dr. Pepper lake because the water was orange....yes - orange.  It looked like what happens when you drink all the soda except a little and the ice melts.  I tried to take a picture but couldn't quite capture it.

Canadian Adventure part 1 - Driving to Grande Prairie

 For our family vacation this year we went to visit my brother Nathan and his family in Grande Prairie Alberta.  It is a pretty long drive so we did it in two days.  Day one we spent the night in Kamloops British Columbia.  Then we went the rest of the way.  We traveled  beautiful country, and saw lots of nature.  I even made the kids turn off all the electronics and put away the games and crayons so they could see what was happening while we went through Jasper National Park - so incredible.

Car trip photos

Jack and I took the dog for a walk.  This was our view of Kamloops - it is so beautiful!  (and handsome - don't you think?)

After we got back from our walk - this is what I found.  Kenzie Jaron and I shared a bed, but when I left, they snuggled together.  I'm sure Kenzie had no idea that he was all up in his business.

I can't remember the name of this mountain - but it was so majestic we took several pictures

This one is less majestic.  Paul says if a kid made a mountain out of playdough that looked like this the parents would be disappointed :)

The entrance to Jasper

There was a phone booth - with an actual phone.  I figured we may not see it again, so I took a picture :)

The Elk on the side of the rode - jealous Justin?

Look at the idiot standing so close.  Apparently there are 4-5 deaths a year from people getting too close to wildlife.  Lovely right?

Mountain Goats - we were driving so the picture is a bit blurry. 

We had to take a potty stop and found this  lake off the road.  It is called Jarvis lake and it had a play area and the "most disgusting bathrooms ever!" according to Kenzie.

This is a coal mine we literally drove on top of.  Pretty cool to see.