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May

…and half way through the next month, we started on May, lol! This has been an exhausting month. May is always a busy month for us. We’ve got my birthday, our anniversary, and Mother’s Day, and this year we also had my youngest brother get married!

I finished my Flood Geology class that first Sunday and then that next Thursday, we headed up to Canada to celebrate Brenton getting married. Now my parents are truly empty nesters! This was a pretty big trip for us. We packed up Tannin and Alana and jumped on a plane at 6 am on Thursday (this meant that all of us had to be up by 3:45). Tannin loved it!!! We told him that we were “Going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship, zooming through the skies, little Einsteins. Climb aboard, get ready to explore, there’s so much to find, little Einsteins.” You may recognize the song from the popular kids tv show J In the show the kids fly around in a rocket ship that they have to pat into flight. So, as the plane was taking off we would all pat our laps, getting faster and faster until we lifted off. At which point, we would through our hands up in the air and yell, “Blast off!” He lasted up until the last hour of the last flight…not too shabby for a 2 year old.

After that, my parents drove us from Calgary down to their home where we had the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, and then got a good night sleep. The next day was the wedding and it went off without a hitch (at least I didn’t notice any, though Brenton made me wonder if he’d show up, lol). It was half an hour before the ceremony when we found out he was still at Subway, eating lunch! But alas, he showed up and the rest is history! Congrats bro! You did good J

Once we made the journey back home, I was finally able to give Olivia her Mother’s Day gift – a full 1 hr massage! Our trip to Canada had gone the weekend of Mother’s Day, so I had to postpone it a bit. She absolutely loved it! I made her close her eyes on the way there so she wouldn’t know where we were going, she was so excited when she opened them. While she was getting pampered, I took the kids to the local park and let them run around and play. When I went back to pick her up she was beaming. She seemed so much more relaxed, and had a warm glow about her. I hadn’t seen her smile that big in a while. Totally worth it!

That next week we had a friend from India come and visit. It was great to talk with her about all the things she had seen and learned. We can’t wait to have our first visit!

For my birthday I talked Olivia into going with me to see the new Captain America: Civil War movie. She loved it and so did I! We both laughed quite a bit and she kept telling me how much she loved the Spiderman they chose and how they portrayed him.

The last thing that month was our anniversary. Four years. That’s how long we’ve been married. It’s been an eventful 4 years and we spent our whole dinner at Longhorn’s reminiscing. We both agree that our time tree planting has been our favorite so far. Hahaha Maybe it’s just the newlywed lenses that we had at the time but we have some very fond memories of those days. After dinner we were going to head to a store to just walk around for a bit and enjoy time without the kids, but after checking in with gramma it became clear that Alana was not going to let that happen. So, we packed it up early and headed home.

Oh yeah, I forgot about memorial day. We had a blast at a friend’s house for a memorial day cookout. They had a kiddie pool and water toys and Tannin and Alana loved running around in their swimsuits playing in the water. When it was time to go I took Tannin up to get dressed and then headed down to get Olivia. In the 2 seconds it took for me to look at her and tell her we were ready to go we heard a huge splash and looked over to see Tannin in the pool…fully clothed. So, he sat on a towel the whole way home.

Other than that, Alana started waving and dancing this month. It’s been fun to watch her grow and learn. She’s a very smart and thoughtful little girl…and very much the drama queen. Hahaha
That pretty much sums up the month. I look forward to sharing about all that is going on next month (we’ve got some pretty big stuff coming J ). Until next time…