Oh, Canada!

We have been trying to get up to Canada to visit for years now. Things got a little tricky when they started requiring passports at the border. We finally got passports for our cruise last year. However, we couldn't justify another big trip since we went on a cruise, to Disneyland, and to Hawaii last year. So, we decided that this was the year for Canada... no matter what. We jumped at the chance when Boyd and Terry offered to drive us up the end of May. They were going up for Ethan's mission farewell. As an added perk, we got to travel up in the motor home. I am convinced that a motor home is the only way to take road trips now. It was soooo nice. The kids played up top, played games at the table, watched tons of movies, took naps in beds, and loved being able to move around. We didn't even have to stop to use the bathroom since we had one on board. Here are a few pictures that Baylen snapped during our drive...

We have a trusty driver, Boyd...
Our co-pilot, Bergan (the poor guy got a crash course in parenting 101 from driving over 30 hours with 4 kids)...

The Saint, Terry (she helped me so much with the kids!)...
The very excited kiddos...
and us (No, he did not have his arm around me for 30 hours)...

The drive was pretty uneventful, for the most part. We made it across the border with no problems and made it to Taber in great time. It was so good to see Grandma Holman again. She hit it off from the beginning with the kids.

It was Ashlyn's first time meeting grandma
That night we had fun hanging out at grandma's. She had some home movie's of Baylen and his siblings that were seriously funny. My favorite part was something I heard in the background. One of the brothers yelled out, "Baylen, you're the worst brother I ever had." Obviously it was just a little fight they were having, but I couldn't stop laughing.

Here's we are watching the home movies...
On Wednesday we started the day with grandma's famous hot cakes... Heaven! Then we spent the day hanging out in Taber. We walked around town (which was really tiring since it consists of one whole block!)...
We, of course, had to get a Canadian slurpee. We got some strange looks for getting so many slurpees on such a cold day. They didn't understand that we only have the opportunity to have these about once every eight years.

On our walk, we found this huge corn. Taber is world famous for their yummy corn. Baylen had to get a picture because he's always telling Corey that everything is bigger in Canada.

We also hit up the local dollar store looking for Canadian candy bars. Not only did they have candy bars, they had EVERYTHING! Canada sure knows how to do a dollar store! We also found a cool Calgary Flames jersey at Walmart for Tanner. He is now officially a fan!

That afternoon, we went over to Shelly and Tim's to see their fish pond. We didn't find see any fish, but we had a lot of fun on their ATV's!
Next we went out to the farm. It was a super muddy mess, but Ashlyn was in heaven. I hope she gets to live on a farm someday because she is a farm girl at heart. We couldn't keep her away from the animals!

This horse was pregnant. She actually had the pony while we were up in Canada (picture to come)
There were so many babies

Baby kittens...

Baby lambs...
There were so many amazing places to take pictures. It was killing me that most of them were surrounded by huge swamps of mud. However, we did get a few pictures in front of the house the Terry grew up in (There are three houses on the farm. They kept building new ones as their family grew!)

TO BE CONTINUED!!!