Road Trip

I spent all this time working on posts and saving them so they would be in the right order and they are all out of order now - instead of figuring out how to fix it here's the order they should be in: Seattle, Vancouver, Jasper and Elk, Tofield, Lake Louise, Lake Shore Resorts and Fairmont Hot Springs, and then Ukiah to home.  We spent nine days on the road and had such a good time, Ryan and I were both pleasantly surprised at how well it all went!

Road Trip - Lake Louise

From Toefield we drove to Lake Louise and spent a couple of hours enjoying the scenery.  My pictures didn't come close to capturing how beautiful this place is.

 Ashlynn's happy place in the car was listening the the Ipod  Tristan let her borrow

Road Trip Part 1 - Seattle and Camano Island

We started off our trip to Toefield with one night in Seatlle with Tristan, Scott, and kids.  Tris and I did our best to give the kids what they wanted so they would leave us alone and give us time to sit and talk.  We were pretty successful

 

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 After a night in Seattle we went up to Tristan's parents house on Camano Island and swam, made s'mores, went on a little hike, and swam some more.  It was a fun couple of days and fun way to start our trip.

The three older girls are all comfortable now jumping off the diving board and getting themselves to the side

 

                                              The girls got to help Mary pick veggies for dinner

                                 Ryan met us on Camano and we left the next morning for Vancouver

Elk!

Waking up in Jasper

Road Trip, Lake Shore resorts and Fairmont Hot Springs

After Lake Louise we spent the night in a tee pee at Lake Shore Resorts in Windermere.  That was a funny stop, fun sleeping in a tee pee and glad we didn't have a ton of time at that camp ground, it made me think of the Griswalds on the Vacation movie where they show up at the campground with swans in the swimming pool - it wasn't as bad as that, just funny.

 Fairmont Hot Springs was just South of our campground, it was a high lite for all of us. There are three big pools surrounded by mountains.  The three big girls spent most of their time jumping off of the diving boards. Adie and Eliza even tried the high dive. Adie loved it and after a couple tries Eliza was fine with the smaller one.  It was fun watching them go up there and have no fear, I screamed when I jumped. And Ash was able to jump off and swim to the side on her own - Nana Mary's pool was perfect practice to get her ready.
                                                                    Ash

                                                                             Eliza

                                                                    Adie

 And they all spent some of their trip money from their grandmas on these huge suckers - Ash actually finished hers

From Fairmont we hoped to get a Hotel in Spokane but everything in the area was booked so we ended up with a long drive that day and a sweet Motel in Ritzville.

Road Trip, Ritzville to Ukiah to home!

Our last day we woke up and headed out early so that we could spend a few hours at Annie and Ian's in Ukiah before heading home. The girls really wanted to stay the night there but I really wanted to get home, I should have taken a picture of the van - it was pretty gross at that point.

 Leah was over the car by the last two days, I did what I could to keep her happy, in the above picture it's a pepperoni stick in one hand and a huge sucker in the other. The pic below is the girls movie theatre

 We loved seeing Ukiah and hanging out with the Reids, Ashlynn got to  help Ian make Huckleberry frozen yogurt and she kept asking us "wasn't that good ice cream?" she was pretty proud and pretty happy she got to do something with Ian on her own

                                                 Leah, over the car and ready to be home. Luckily she saved most of this for the last day.

It's good to be home, and fun thinking about the next road trip!

Leah at 2

Leah had a fun birthday, she told everyone "I have a birtday, I get cupcakes"  and loved when we sang Happy Birthday to her.  She's a pretty funny little girl and likes to try and be goofy and make people laugh. She knows how to throw a fit and usually puts herself in her room when she's mad "nnnnnnnno mama, I go by myself RIGHT NOW  and NO talking ah me!!!"  She likes to color, jump on the trampoline, seim, play with her dolls, and just follow her sisters around

                                              "NO mama, no taking a picture of ME!"

                                                   (she loves her berries)

 we were on the deck on her birthday and she came our with chocolate all over her face and feet, I came in to find the chocolate syrup dumped all over the kitchen floor with a  good amount on the carpet

Every morning she wakes up (in our bed) and says "I ready for cereal" and whenever I ask her what she wants to do today she says "go camping"  when I tell her not today she says "Friday?"   We all think she's pretty funny these days - Happy Birthday to Leah!