Race Day!

Today is Race Day for me! I have entered the Moonlight 6k run. I am excited, nervous, and anxious. I can already feel the adrenaline running through my body and I had a very hard time getting to sleep last night. LOL! 6k I know I can do, I have done 8k before, so really there is no need for me to worry. I am just dreading the 1km + hill at the very end that has an incredibly steep incline which I have NOT trained for. The rest will be "easy peasy lemon squeezy" as my kids say. So wish me luck and pray that my calves can handle it. LOL! I have set a goal of 40min to finish...I hope I can do it. Stay tuned and I'll update tomorrow on my results. For now I am going to take it easy and enjoy this beautiful sunny day and possible/hopefully take a nap!

Fun Little Getaway!

We just got back from out little family weekend vacation to Calgary. Not too far away from home, but far enough not to be at home, which is SO what I needed. We had the best time! No major catastrophes, minimal fighting, and just happy KIDS! The kids loved swimming and I think we brought home fish instead of children. They played Lego on our "deck" at the hotel for hours. Lego is seriously the BEST invention. I can't begin to count up the countless hours my boys have spent building, creating and using their imagination. I don't care how much we have already...there is always room for MORE!

It was fun to visit a few places we haven't been before. I am amazed that there is so much literally right in our "backyard" our own province that we never see. Why is that we think we have to travel to foreign places to see the world? We really don't, there is so much to see so close to home. That is my goal over the summer, to visit places that I haven't been to that are close to home. Like Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump. I have lived in Alberta for 95% of my life and NEVER been there! What a shame. Also Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, never been their either, but hopefully this summer I will be able to check a few places off my list.

So we went to C.O.P. (Canada Olympic Park). We went to the Olympic Museum, and were a bit disappointed to be honest. Mind you the elderly gentlemen who were the guides were very nice, loved the kids, and let us go in for FREE...so that was a BONUS! Not very much for little kids so we didn't last too long. I love the pictures of my kids though holding the torch. Who knows maybe we have a future Olympian in our house. COP does look like a GREAT place to take kids skiing though. Maybe next year we will enroll the boys in lessons there.

We had to go to Chuck E Cheese. FUN place to play...TERRIBLE place to eat! The kids spent a few hours though being entertained by all the fun arcade games, so it was worth it. We also went to the new CrossIron Mills mall. Holy HUGENESS! My feet were very sore after walking all over that mall...but I was in shopping heaven so I can't complain too much.

We spent some time at the Science Center. The kids spent a few hours exploring and playing. Carson could have stayed ALL day at the Lego table. We had to DRAG him away. LOL! Grace loved playing in WOW town. Tyler even went on the G-Force bicycle ride, he is such a good sport. I can't wait to see what the new science center will be like. Guess we will have to wait a year or so to find out.

We also went to the Aero Space Museum (never had it on our list of places to go but it was right across the street from our hotel so why not right?) It was actually quite cool and Tyler enjoyed reading about the war and seeing the artifacts. Some of the planes in there were massive. You really never realize just how huge a plane is until you are up close to it. They really are a great, magnificent invention.

This weekend was so great because we didn't have a schedule, didn't have to be anywhere at a certain time. It was nice to let the kids swim when they wanted and we could relax in our room. It was nice to go shopping and let the kids pick out their own toy for not complaining. It was fun to get some great deals at Old Navy, and BEST of all it was GREAT just being TOGETHER!