It is the end of a long day and we are all exhausted,except for Holly who is still energized from seeing her friends and cousins, and from having her hair and makeup done by Shauna. She is upstairs watching Big Brother with her auntie Leslie. Hopefully Hayden won't get voted out or the drive tomorrow could potentially be very painful for all of us. We left Leslie's house at around 11 am today and headed to the St. Norbert Provincial Heritage Park. There is a ...

We headed into the city at 8 am to take Holly to her last two classes. We made it in good time, arriving at 8:45am. We took part in observation week by watching Holly in her ballet class. Their instructor is excellent and Holly did a beautiful job. We opted out of watching her conditioning class as Cooper and Brooke had had enough, so James took Cooper to Tom Hortons' while Brooke and I browsed the magazine selection. Holly was able to exchange email address...

Today was a great day. Holly drove into the city early this morning with her Uncle Richard and James headed in as well for a doctors appointment. My good friend Cassie and her adorable and rambunctious son, Matteo, came over for a visit at Leslie's place. So nice to see them....Matteo has grown so much and Cassie continues to look amazing as always. The visit was good and ended when we realized naps were needed all for all of the children. We had a quiet afte...

Stayed at the house today to allow Cooper some more much needed down time. James drove to Neepawa today to finish up some last minute work. Spent the day doing puzzles and playing with the kids, before helping make supper. Holly and Robyn showed up around 4pm and it was nice to see our oldest again. After supper most of us went for a walk around the block, letting Cooper and Charli push babies in little strollers - it was very nice. Nice to not be driving an...

We left the Kelly Inn with its' smoky smelling room (despite being assured it was, in fact, non smoking) and its' unsatisfactory breakfast and made our way to Target to get creamcheese for Leslie, only to realize it is Sunday and therefore was closed. We are heading to Grand Forks to see what we luck into there for creamcheese and then we will head for the border. This is day six of Cooper being ill and, from what I understand, gastroenteritis usually lasts abo...