Back in St. A

After spending what felt like hours gathering up toys and crafts and food that was strewn all throughout the hotel room, we made the journey home to St. Albert...no coffee for the long journey, that's for sure. We saw an elk again on the way home. This picture is from the way up though. Mike's iPad really comes in handy for long trips...we discovered this on the way up to Jasper. After Rose has a nap we wedge the iPad in between the 2 front seats and put a movie on. They usually watch Despicable Me, which they've seen about 10 times now.

The following week was a work week for everyone, so it was pretty quiet around the house as everyone left and Lizzy went to daycare. Mike worked from Jen's house, although I don't know if he was working hard or hardly working. He spent a lot of time going to the gym. Good for him to just relax. I was able to visit with some friends, although it didn't feel like I had enough time with anyone. I saw Janice, Lisa, Erin, and Andrea. Great visits, and can't wait for more time next year. As a family we also went to Marilyn and Hal's house for a fun BBQ. Great to see the newlyweds Cam and Lana there too, whose wedding we had missed while we were at Matt's.

As Paige looooves "Auntie Booze's ride place" we went back for some more fun, bringing Uncle Tyson along. People think this picture is set up but she actually went on it. I included the video so you can see that it's not that crazy.







Here's Rose watching a show in bed while she was waiting for me to put her to sleep:

As usual there was a Turcsanyi potluck dinner. This time it was on the last night we were there as a bunch of the family had just come back from Hungary.

Here are Mike's second cousins Bailey, Riley, and Bella:

Avie had sure grown since last year. She wasn't crawling last year and now she's almost as big as Paige!
Here's Paige's 3rd cousin Ciara (I don't know the spelling I'm sorry!). Paige and her have the exact same birthday, and are the same age. they had fun playing with Paige's toys.
Mike's cousin Melissa:Mike's pregnant cousin Amanda, mom of big-girl Avie:So happy that everyone made it out for the dinner as I'm sure lots of them were still jet lagged. Auntie Sue and Auntie Judy brought back Hungarian dolls for the girls and Paprika for us.

Rose and Lizzy pose for the camera in their final moments together before we went home. The girls didn't play together really, as they don't at this age, but Rose learned a bit of sign language from Lizzy. Lizzy does the sign for "more", and Rose started to copy her and say "muh muh" while doing the sign. She did it at home for about a week and then stopped.

One final kiss for Abby:The face Lizzy makes when you tell her to give someone a kiss:

An awesome meltdown:

So fun in St. Albert. We also went to the Farmer's Market where Grandma Val bought Paige another painted rock and hair clip. I bought some chocolate bar stuffed brownies. Major yum!

Looking forward to next year already! Maybe the mosquitos will be better though, that really sucked! No pun intended.