Stampede Time!

We're trying something new this week for the blog - slideshows of pictures (and a few regular pics)! Save everyone from scrolling and scrolling (hint - there are a lot of pics this week!) and you can sit back and watch the great pictures! If anyone would like a copy of a picture I can email them to you just let me know which picture. Enjoy!

We had a very hot week here and enjoyed a day over at Nana & Howie's house - which got Cara a very blue cupcake! Then we had some fun with Leah and our ladybug sprinkler. Gwen dealt with the heat pretty good - slept in just her diaper one night and also got her toes wet in sprinkler. Cara enjoyed the fan!

The pic with Cara and Gwen has a story:

I told Cara that it was time to feed Gwen lunch so she went to her kitchen and got her plastic spaghetti and meatballs in a bowl and used a small spatula as a spoon and was feeding Gwen by saying "here comes the train - choo choo - open up the tunnel!". Gwen was confused!

On Friday the Calgary Stampede kicked off with the annual Parade! This year Will and Kate were in town and almost half a million people went down to see them drive by before the parade started! We were about 15 people deep from the street and Cara spent a lot of time on Daddy's shoulders and Gwen spent all of the time strapped to Mummy in the carrier!

Saturday we got up and the girls grabbed their hats to go to the Renfrew Community Annual Stampede Breakfast!

After "enjoying" some traditional Stampede pancakes (cold) and sausages (also cold) and Cara's plate (with her breakfast still on it) blowing away, we checked out the cool firetrucks that came to the breakfast!

And Cara took in a bounce in the bouncy horse house (it is like a regular bouncy castle but is brown with an inflatable horse's head on top)!

Sunday we went to Calaway Park again for the afternoon. Cara went on a couple of new rides and was very brave! Gwen took in a couple of rides too. Daddy played some games and won his girls some new toys (and Cara played and won a game too - she loves her prize bear so much he's taken over a spot in her bed!

Finally, a real video for you all to enjoy. Gwen has started talking!!! She is almost crawling too so once that happens there will be another video!