Canada Day/Calgary trip

Zanna celebrated her first Canada Day as a Canadian. We hosted the Goetzingers and Schultz family over for the occasion. I usually like to do something for the 4th of July since it's our anniversary but we were going out of town on the third. Anyway, it was a good opportunity to get together and eat Naniamo bars. Need I say more?

We went to Calgary on the 3rd. That night we drove out to Kananaskis to meet up with Wayne's parents, brother Brent and his family, his uncle and aunt and brother Jeff and his family. There are 9 kids on the Halldorson side now and we make quite a group all together! Jake and Fran put us up in the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis where we had our wedding night and our reception had been in the place right next to it! It was neat to be there for our 9th anniversary with our kids.
The weather was beautiful the whole time. Mornings were spent in the spa with the Halldorson ladies (not our typical vacation, I can reassure you). Afternoons the guys and Fran went golfing. We were treated to THE BEST meal I've ever had while we were there. We had babysitters along to help and Zanna had a babysitter for the first time and did great! This was very exciting let me tell you. She did great overall - she was comfortable with all the new faces around her and kept hugging cousin Claire who's just 3 months younger making her topple over everytime. Will had a blast with the cousins playing in the pool, biking on the trails, even making Smores! It was all amazing and we feel so blessed to have had such a "fancy" vacation! We returned to Calgary and Will had a great time on the tractor with Grandpa, splitting wood, roasting marshmallows at the firepit and driving the go-cart.

The last day in town we had a photographer come out to Jake and Fran's and take a family picture. (We all wore white and khaki, that's why we look like Twinkies) The professional ones were all taken outside - can't wait to see how they turned out! Now we're back home for a few days until we leave for my parents in the States. Busy, busy!!