Vancouver/San Jaun Islands Day 2 April 17th, 2014

We loved our hotel this night, woke up happy, had a delicious breakfast, and headed to the boarder. Our first stop in Canada was the Vancouver Temple. I had mapped it all out, but unfortunately we ran into a slight problem...my map stopped short of the temple and led us to a church meeting house instead, but after lots of prayer (I knew Seth would never let me live this down if we didn't get there) we were told the temple was just a minute drive down the road, we stopped too early. We found it! Then we headed to Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver and then to the ferry terminal. We took the ferry to Victoria, Vancouver Island. We went to the Butchart Gardens, drove around the island, checked into our very misleading hotel, went to Costco and bought Kinder Eggs, had dinner and went to bed.  

 

this was how the pool looked online

 

this is how it looked in person

yummy poutine fries

Vancouver/San Jaun Islands Day 1 April 16th, 2014

Seth is so great, he always takes us in little mini-vacations and this year he took us to Vancouver, BC/San Juan Islands. It was so much fun. I love these little getaways with my sweet little family!

Seth started a new job and had orientation the day we were leaving, so I dropped him off and packed the car while he was at work. I was also in charge of mapping out our trip...something that would be very important since we did not have cell phone access in Canada...and made for a very funny story:) Once Kimmie got home from school we picked Seth up and hit the road. The first day we drove up to the Washington/Canada boarder.

 



April 2014

April was filled with a trip tot he San Juan Islands (a separate post coming soon about that), Seth starting a new job, Kate starting solid foods and Chrissy passing a kidney stone...and many things in between!

first time trying baby oatmeal

bought a new vacuum and this is what came off my "clean" carpet

field trip to the fire station

Kimmie doesn't like long sleeves/pants, so I made her favorite pajama's into capris/short sleeves. This is the before

after

sister snuggles

singing while watching General Conference

naps

ducks on our walk

Kimmie reading to Kate

My kidney stone from January still hadn't passed, so I was drinking lots of this

laundry room before

laundry room after I laid tile

taking a "selfie"

cousin bath time was not a success

loving on baby Kate

silly kids

makin smores

David & Kate

Joshua packed his backpack for our trip, it's almost bigger than him!

the Easter baskets I made for the kids

Happy Easter

 

Missing his Uncle Scott, so he "called" him on his toy phone and was sitting there talking to him.

big girl seat

Look, sometimes I do shower and put make-up on

first time in the jumper

loving it

Somebody wants to go to Disney World

Loving her new scarf Aunt Cyndy brought back from Paris

outside fun

Joshua fell asleep under the coffee table

sweet baby Kate

Loving my scarf from Cyndy

our 5th baby, I finally passed my HUGE kidney stone.