Easter in Kamloops Cont'd

Easter Morning

Notice that in all of the pictures Walker's mouth is full of candy?!

Easter Outfits

 The Babies

 Baby Jimmer

The Cousins

 

 Ava!!

Walker playing lacrosse with Brendan, they even had a little lacrosse stick that was the perfect size for Walker

 

The kids have asked me everyday since we came home when we will be going back. 

I hope it will be soon!!

 

Easter in Kamloops

The last time we were in Kamloops was a week before Emma was born so we were excited to return and show the kids Allan's old stomping ground.  They were very excited to see Auntie Theresa, Allan's oldest sister, and her family.  Walker was especially thrilled to get to spend some time with "his boys" Brendan and Jarrod.  Even though they are 13 and 10 respectively they played so well with their little cousins.  We had such a wonderful weekend and the weather was absolutely beautiful.  Theresa kept the kids busy nearly every second that we were there and made me and Allan old news. 

Time with Theresa

Theresa and Jarrod

Wildlife Reserve

The cousins at the Wildlife Reserve after the chocolate Easter egg hunt

Too much excitement for our sweet baby

The Playground

Egg Decorating

Football with Daddy

The kids spent hours playing football in the yard or "mini sticks" and nerf guns in the basement with Allan.  There's nothing that we love more than days full of uninterrupted time with Daddy!

Well, I have posted about 30 pictures and I haven't even made it to Easter morning yet  More to come tomorrow.



The Goose Egg

Before I write a post about our exciting weekend in Kamloops I have to add to the last post.  Had I known what a nightmare that whole day would have been I would have just waited until the end of the night and documented the whole awful day in one awful post. 

Hours after the puking incident we arrived safely at our hotel in Hinton and took our children to the much anticipated swimming pool with a waterslide.  A treacherous, highspeed, accident waiting to happen slide that did this to Emma's head.

 

The most frightening thing is that this picture was taken an hour and a half after it happened and the goose egg is about a third the size that it was initially.  Luckily Allan's brother Shane was close by and took he and Emma to the hospital where she was seen immediately.  After the doctor confirmed that there was no fracture or concussion she sent them home with an ice pack and an order to watch her carefully for changes in behavior.  Luckily, come morning, the monstrousity on her head was gone and all that was left was a nice purple bruise that she insisted be strategically covered with her hair.  We could not have been more grateful to get home the next afternoon without any further incidents. 

What made our homecoming even better was that my sneaky, wonderful Mom snuck into our house while we were away and cleaned our house, including shampooing our carpets!!!  Given Emma and Walker's reaction, running into the middle of the yard laughing hysterically and screaming "Grandma cleaned our house, Grandma cleaned our house" you would think I was a hoarder or something....
I'm not!!

Thanks again Mom!!

Coming Home

We are driving home from Kamloops where we spent our Easter weekend. We had so much fun and took tons of pictures that I will post later but for now just this one.  

This is moments after getting back on the road after sterilizing the van as best we could following a puking incident. Apparently I have yet to learn to give our children Gravol before our vehicle moves. But between having to use a woven Easter basket as a bucket (you know, the ones with all the tiny holes in it), pleading with Walker to look out the window instead of at his retching sister because I can see him gagging and covering his mouth out of the corner of my eye while I'm holding said basket, and a puke covered Emma's comment once we stopped the car; "I think I need a napkin" it's already an experience that I can look back on and laugh.

Sweet Emma asked if we could say a prayer so that she wouldn't get sick again and after we did I put her in her seat and handed her a bag in case she needed it to which she replied "but we said a prayer". To which I replied by bursting into tears because she is such a faithful little thing. Naturally my tears alarmed her and had her sobbing all over again and it took us another 5 minutes to get her settled down.

Needless to say we've had an eventful road trip thus far. AND I had to stop in the middle of writing this post to help Walker pee in a bottle. He was mortified.