We're so glad when our cousins come home...

So my sister Mindy and her 2 kids Logan and Summer came to visit for 3 whole weeks!! I was very excited and when they finally arrived it was nothing but non stop fun! Noah is still little so I wasn't sure how he would act with Logan's craziness but he just joined right in and they would "gently" wrestle all the time. It was so funny to watch them. Like for Example we told logs he had to be gentle with Noah because he is just little so when he wanted to push him down he would just go up to him and keep pushing him with his belly till he fell over haha and than he would jump on top of him. Sometimes he would run away and jump on the couch and run along in to the other side and Noah would pull himself up on the couch and just follow logan around. It was so cute! It's times like those I wish we lived closer because I know they would be best friends! But in our short time we did a lot of things together. In the first 2 days we went swimming at grandma and grandpas pool and we went boating at tie lake and surprisingly Logan was a dare devil on the tube! He just kept yelling, "more bumpies!" it was funny. Like seriously it was a pretty enjoyable ride for myself haha. They was one bump we went on that made logan fly up in the air but he didn't let go of his handles so he just flipped his body forward and landed on his tummy haha. But he just laughed haha!

Also during our time together my mom, mindy and I went in a 5km race in Calgary. It was another colour run like the one mindy and I did in February. It was fun except for the fact I realized I had lost my camera half way through the race so that kinda ruined it for me. Luckily I ended up finding it but it took a while! I think I was more upset about the pictures I would be loosing more than the camera haha.

They came out to jaffray a few times which was fun because Logan loves all of kyles machines but I think the funniest part of their visit for me was when we all went camping!! Back in May when mindy finalized when she was coming here i booked us in to go camping at Premier Provincial Campground. It is about an hour away and I was convinced it was going to be great! Well I was not disappointed! The campground was great! The water was beautiful and we all had so much fun! Mindy, summer and mom slept in a big tent, my dad and Logan slept in a little pop tent and Kyle and Noah and I borrowed kyles parents trailer so that was great! My dad also brought his sea doo which was a lot of fun! The first time Kyle took Noah out of it he fell asleep. My kids seriously will fall asleep on anything that moves! Doesn't matter how noisy it is, if it moves he will eventually fall asleep! Our whole camp trip we called it the "scooby doo" because we went for a little hike our first day and on our ay back down we told Logan to hurry so we could go on Papa's sea doo. A few minutes later he started walking fast and said hurry let's go scooby dooing! We thought it was funny! We went for 3 nights, 4 days! My aunt Gerri and uncle Darcy came and stayed over for one night and that was fun! We had a lot of laughs and stayed up late playing games around the campfire! It was a perfect amount of time. We stayed for 3 nights, 4 days. I could have stayed for another night but it was still great!!
I have to stay this was the first time that I had to say goodbye where I wasn't emotional and super sad. I am think I am just finally getting used to the way our relationship has to be living far apart. It just makes me grateful that we all have the means to see eachother as often as we can. We are very lucky! I was sad to see them go but I already have a trip booked to go see them in October. My parent bought me a plane ticket for my birthday to go visit them so my mom, Noah and I are going down to Texas for halloween and that should be a blast!! Well here are some of my favorite pictures from our time together!

The first day we saw our coursins Noah and Logan ended up wearing the exact same outfit!! The shirts were on purpose but the shorts....total fluke!! Seriously!

Noah helping himself to Summer's lunch :)

Fun day at Tie Lake at my in-laws cabin!!

We forced Logan to go off the slide off the dock with me. He was so scared to let go but once we went he was laughing!

Tube ride....I'm serious when I say anything that moves will put noah to sleep haha!

Our color run in Calgary! It was a lot of fun before I lost my camera haha! 

Kisses from my boy!! 

First day of our fun camping trip at Premier Lake!! 

This is Noah's crazy face...and this is Logan's version of Noah haha!

Out for a morning family hike!

Papa and Logie so tired from our hike!

Daddy and Noah enjoying a drink haha!

At the beginning of the ride...and at the end of the ride haha!! I'm not lieing when I say Noah will always fall asleep haha!

Papa and Logie :)

Sweet baby girl!!

I love this picture of Noah!! So cute!!

Just me and my boy!! Love you Noah!!

Mindy and Logie going for a scooby doo ride :)

Love my little family!! last beach day! We had beautiful weather and such good company!
Can't wait to do it again next year!

Doing laundry at the end of our camping trip!

Happy 1st Birthday Noah!!

We had Noah’s birthday party yesterday and it was so much fun!! It was crazy of course but I surprisingly enjoyed it haha! I have to admit I don’t think it would have happened if it wasn’t for my moms help!! She was a huge help with everything!! I prepared for weeks a head of time but when it actually came to party day Noah did not want me to leave him alone for one minute so that made it really hard to get things done. My mom came out at around 1:00pm and we seriously just went hard. Luckily Noah slept for like 2 hours so we were able to get a lot done. We had a lot of people at the party too. I was planning on just having family but when I started writing everyone down we have a lot of family haha. I had to draw the line somewhere but there still ended up being around 40-45 people. It was good though with having my big covered deck. I just had my front door opened and the party was inside and outside. The only crappy thing was it was windy and raining on and off the whole time. But everyone didn’t seem to mind so it worked out well. I really felt the love yesterday surrounded by some many people yesterday to celebrate my little boys birthday!! We are so very blessed to live around so many family and friends who truly care about us and Noah!! Well here are a bunch of photos of the big day!!

I loved his invitations!! Our party theme was Bubble Guppies!! It is a children's show that is only a few years old and Noah loves it! It was one of my nephew Logan's favourite shows so Noah was exposed to it early haha! He loves all the music!

 This was my party table!! I loved the way it turned out!! The empty blue plate was for the hot dogs!! This was my party table!! I loved the way everything turned out!! Kyle told me I was going a little over the top for a 1 year olds birthday party but I felt it was more for me and I enjoy doing these type of things. I’ve been told I should be a party planner haha!!  Now here are a bunch of close up's of our party table!! Everything had a fun name to go along with the theme!!

 My awesome cake!! I havn't made cakes in a long time!! The last one I made was for my sister Jamie in May when she left on her mission. But before that it has been years. It was a lot of fun making it! I love making kids cakes because they are so cute!! Luckily I made it on Sunday and Kyle just took Noah for the whole afternoon so I didn't have any distractions!

 Here's the Birthday Boy!!

 All the kids who came to celebrate Noah's Birthday!! So much family!!

 I had a bubble station for the kids to play with. The only thing was it kept trying to rain but the kids didn't seem to mind!

 I am so lucky to have such wonderful people in my life! My friend Haley came to Noah's party which was so sweet. We have been friends since High School and she is more like a sister to me than a friend!

My friends Megan and Carly came all the way from Lethbridge just for a few hours which was amazing. I invited them just because I wanted them to now they were important to us but when they said they were coming I was shocked!! It just goes to show I do have amazing friends even though I don’t always feel like I do.

Cake Time!!

Lloyd and Shirley are Noah's adopted grandparents!! We call them Nana Shirley and Papa Lloyd! 

 I love my little family!

 My Mom and Dad!

My Grandparents!

Grandma and Grandpa Anderson!!

 I love my sweet little boy!

This is what Kyle and I got Noah for his birthday!! Kyle attached it to our covered porch so is up on our deck by the rest of our patio furniture!! It is so nice! Noah loves it!!