Time in Canada..

While there we were able to see several people and family we hadn't seen in years. Al and Pat threw an open house get together on Sunday and several friends and family made it by for a chat. That evening Al's brother and family dropped Great Grandpa Les off at the house who had made the trip from Saschatuwan. It was so good to spend time with him again and for him to meet the kids - he endured a long day at West Edmonton Mall with all three great-grandkids, Al, Jay, Lee and I. Below is a picture of Cameron and Great Grandpa Les playing doctor - poor Les is getting a shot!

Katelyn and Grandpa Al playing airplane - the day after we arrived. Grandpa Al had her convinced it was necessary to plug her nose and cover her ears at certain parts of the flight

Annie and I at the open house! It was absolutely wonderful to see her and Kyle again! WE MISS YOU BOTH!!

Cousin Blake..

Being the first trip to Canada for the kids, meant the first meeting of Cousin Blake. We have done several webcams where the kids have seen each other, but it just isn't the same. Blake is about 6 weeks younger than Cameron so it was really neat to see their similarities and differences in their personalitites. Auntie Erin and Uncle Jay had both met Katelyn before, but this was their first time to meet Cam as well. They were both soo good to Katelyn and Cam, Katelyn kept them both quite busy with her never ending source of ideas and games to play!

Erin and Katelyn take a quick pic after doing their hair!

Jay at the kids table playing cars with K and Blake.

Blake is really a reader - he likes his books!

First trip to Canada

This Christmas the Barrett family packed up and headed north to Canada to spend a week with the Barrett family in Canada. This was the first time we have been able to make the trip alkl together with the kids' health and Lee's work. We left sunny Garden City with a temp of 45 degrees and we were greeted by snow and temps of 21 below in Canada with a windchill of -31 one day. It snowed the first two days we were there and Lee's guessing there was about 18 inches of snow on the ground - the kids loved looking at it through the windows. Unfortunately Katelyn has been battling a cold and Cameron had two ear infections(we found out right before we left) so the kids didn't get to go outside and play in the snow at all. Below are a couple of pictures of the snow we found the first morning there. Notice the snow on top of the roof just outisde the window in the first picture.