Vacation Time

At the beginning of August we were able to head back home to Alberta for some fun! We had these family trips planned for a couple months, so we were pretty excited to get some fun in with both our families. We broke the trip up a bit and stayed in Medicine Hat with Jen and Darin which was really great. Now we have places to stay in Medicine Hat or Brooks. It definitely makes the trip a lot more doable, especially right now since sitting for long periods of time isn't very comfortable at this point in my pregnancy!

The first part of the trip was heading to the mountains at "the Gap". It is sort of in the Dutch Creek area. It was BEAUTIFUL! It was a lot of fun to be with all the Orrs. We had quite the camp setup. We had a kitchen area, eating area, as well some of them made a pretty impressive latrine. It was raining the first day and a half, so we waterproofed everything with multiple tarps. The Orrs have a huge army tent with a space for a nice wood burning stove, so we definitely weren't cold! The main activities that our camping adventure included were horseback riding, quading, fishing,swimming in the creek, EATING a lot, and just hanging out. It was a great few days to be with everyone. We unfortunately won't all be together again until Christmas, so we definitely will look forward to that.

Our beautiful camping spot.

The whole family!

Logan took Tait in the carrier down a steep cliff to the creek. Can't wait for this guy to be a Dad! 

Everyone enjoying one of Joce's amazing meals! 

Solon and Parks... so cute!

Check out those awesome outfits!

Everybody building up the courage to dive in the FREEZING creek!

Fishing with Log! He was so patient with me and always willing to help me untangle my line that I couldn't keep straight! This was my first real fishing experience... I'm not too sure how I feel about it. I guess I should probably give it a few more tries!

The mountaineer cowgirl/cowboys! 

The second part of our holiday we went to Sophie Lake with the Baldry's. My Aunt and Uncle have a cabin there and we usually go there every summer and hang out with everyone for a week. It was another fun few days! The weather was beautiful so everyone boated, swam in the pool, played games, had fires, went shopping and just hung out! Unfortunately I had to restrain myself and not do any lake activities this time due to being 7 months pregnant, which was torture! But it was still lots of fun to be there and enjoy family, beautiful scenery oh and some good shopping too!

While we were there Tess was nice enough to take some maternity pictures for us. I just wanted to have  a couple to look back on, but didn't want to spend money on it, so it worked out good. I am the worst poser ever! Logan and Tess had to help me out quite a bit.. haha. Here's a few.

                                                   

                                                     

                   
Ok now a few weeks later here... I guess I should probably post this!