An Escape For Us

Ok, we didn't last very long with just one car. This is the newest member of our family... sort of.

This isn't the exact picture of ours. We have one with a roof rack.

A 2005 Ford Escape XLT 4x4. We got this so Dan can haul his DJ equipment without renting a car. This should save us some money in the long run. We are pretty excited about it.

Cartoon Kelly

My brother in law, Mike drew this of me a few years ago. What do you think? I'm pretty sure this is Dan's favorite picture of me.

Chester LOVES Dan

This is a video that I captured Chester doing while we were laying in bed. Here`s a bit of background before you watch it. Chester is obsessed with Dan. He loves everything about him... even the gross things. We sometimes catch Chester rolling around in Dan`s dirty laundry just to get Dan`s smell all over him. And when he`s laying in bed with him, he`ll sick his head in his armpit just for the smell. Gross I know. So in this video, Dan had just gone jogging and put his sweaty jogging clothes on the side of his laundry basket and Chester started doing this thinking we couldn`t see him:

Sold

Over the weekend we did something kind of out of the blue. We didn't really plan on doing it, or at least doing it so fast. On Friday night Dan put his car up for sale on kijiji.ca at about 11:00pm. The next day he received about 30 emails in response to his post! The first people who came to look at it on Saturday at about 8:00pm were the ones who bought it, despite all the work that really needed to be done on it. Dan's car sold in under 24 hours! And it wasn't even running that well. Who would have thought?!

My car took a lot longer than that. We sold my car almost exactly a year ago. We had 3 cars at the time because we had just purchased our Toyota Matirx. My car was a '95 Honda Civic Hatchback. It was really good to us.

It's kind of sad for me to see Dan's car go because that was the car that Dan has always had while he's been with me. It was the car that he came to pick me up with on our first date together. It was the car that he drove back and forth from Lethbridge to Calgary while we were dating. Oh well, we're moving on... with one car.

Beef 'n' Barley Days

This weekend was Beef 'n' Barley Days for the town of Carstairs. This year Dan and I woke up early to head to Carstairs early to make it for the Pancake Breakfast, which was so delicious! After the breakfast was the Parade. Here are a few pictures I captured:

After the Parade, there are activities like children's races, a pet show, a trade show, and many other things like that. This year they added something new to the list which was a helicopter ride over the town! We really wanted to look into it, but by the end of the day we had forgotten and already started for home. Oh well, maybe next year they'll have it again. We walked up and down main street and stopped at the Pet Store and the owner brought out a 4 year old snake! He let us pet it too! So crazy! She even wrapped herself around him and stuck the end of her tail in his back pocket. We then headed to Burger Baron. This Burger Baron is the best one ever! It's a special treat every chance we get! At my parents' home we visited and the kids played with water balloons and on the trampoline in the back yard. It was kind of weird not having them there this year as they were at a family reunion down south. Everyone had a really good time!

Shakers Fun

Last night we hung out with Dan's cousin Kyle and his wife Pam. We had planned to go mini golfing until we found that the place we went to was closed for some reason. It should have been opened until 10:00pm and it was only about 7:30pm! So we try and find a different place and Dan mentions Shakers Fun Centre. The only problem is that no one knew how to get there. At least we knew the area it was in so we drove around for awhile to try to find it. Dan has a friend named Sheena who is one of the managers there and we finally got a hold of her and she told us how to get there. We looked around the place first before we committed to anything, and we first saw Sheena at the Go Karts! She tells us that she will hook us up with a discount! We all wanted to go Go Karting, and also mini golfing. Sheena ended up getting us all tickets to both for free! (Thanks again Sheena!) This was extra special for me because this was going to be my first time ever Go Karting! And it was so much fun!! Too bad no one had a camera. We will definitely have to do that again! After Go Karting we went mini golfing, but we didn't keep score because no one brought a score sheet out with us. But it was probably more fun that way anyways. After Shakers had closed, we stopped off at Dairy Queen for a treat and headed back home. I hope that Pam and Kyle had as much fun as we did!

Lately

This past week was the "Stampede" here in Calgary. Dan and I went the first night on Friday July 3, the same day as Sterling Homes' Stampede party. This Stampede felt a bit different from the others though. It didn't really feel like the Stampede even came. This year is going by so fast, it's hard to believe that another Stampede has already come and gone! Dan and I wonder why we go every year. It's the same thing everytime, and all we end up doing is spending money that we are trying to save up. We'll have to wait and see if we end up going next year... which we probably will. We don't really go on any rides because I tend to get sick afterwards. So all we can really do it go there to eat and walk around the shops. And that's what we did. We didn't buy anything but food. However, we did enjoy the SuperDogs Show that is free to get into. This year's show wasn't as good as past years' though. All in all, the Stampede was ok. I'm just glad we went early because most of the other Stampede days were rainy. I think one main thing we would do differently next year is to go with some friends!

This past weekend Tammy and Mike threw Emma a birthday party at their new house out in Airdrie. It was a really fun time! Dan and I played games with the kids upstairs while mostly everyone else was visiting downstairs and waiting for the pizza to arrive. After opening gifts and eating cake, we all headed out to the park that's down the street from them. I had never seen the new equipment that they've come up with and so I had a good time trying them out too. However, I had to break for a little bit because the spinning ones made me feel a bit sick. I hope Emma had a really good time at her party too.

Yesterday was the first Sunday that Dan was able to try out his new calling. The Executive Secretary was there, so Dan took on thier duties for the day. Dan had to wake up early to go to 6:30am meetings and then he came back home to come pick me up at 8:50am. Let me tell you, it was so strange to go to church without my Primary bag and books. That's all I've known since we've been in the ward! I think it's going to be a nice adjustment though. So since Dan was so busy all church hours, I didn't have anyone to go to meetings with. So I went with Kevyn Caballero to Nusery because she was going to teach the lesson that week. It was a fun time to be in there. Thanks for inviting me along Kevyn! I know I'm really going to miss seeing the Primary kids every Sunday, and laughing at the darndest things they say. When church was finished we came home and relaxed. And I was stress free for the whole day! I haven't felt like that in a looong time. Yesterday was also the last day for the Stampede and that means awesome fireworks! So far this year, Dan and I have missed every firework show that has been in Calgary, so this one was going to be the first one this year. We didn't want to have to travel to a busy place in order to see them, so we thought we might try to go on top of our building to see if we could have a good view. Once we got up there it was amazing. The view was so spectacular of downtown Calgary. I wish I would have brought my camera up there with me.

Now on to another work week. I started off on my own as the girl that I work closest with (Deb) took the day off and I was responsible for everything. I think I did a pretty good job though.

Dan has had a couple of interviews as well! I'll fill everyone in if and when he gets a firm job! Keep your fingers crossed!!

We Did It!

Dan and I made it through our whole Primary calling without totally losing our minds! We were just released as the Primary CTR 5 Class Teachers the past couple weeks. Our class was the most difficult as the behavioral levels of all three of our boys were very young. We loved our calling, we really did, but the stress level of Sundays had to come to an end sooner than later. We spent about a year and a half in that calling and we made it. We now have new callings that we are excited to jump into. Dan is the Assistant Executive Secretary for the Ward. That means 6:30am meetings on Sundays...yikes! As for me, I am now called to be one of the Cub Leaders. I have no idea what the Cubs do. I really don't know anything about them. Nonetheless, I am excited to learn more things about them. My calling doesn't exactly start until September, so I've got a little break for now, which is nice for the summer months :)


Happy birthday to Ethan Glenn who is now 7 (July 5) and Eva Glenn who is now 5 (July 2)!