Pedalheads Bike Camp!

Reese on 2 wheels!!

This week was bike camp week!!  The kids were extremely excited!!  They sure love bike camp!  This week was extra-special because my nephew Connor and our friends the Hrdlicka's were also in bike camp!  This is Blake's 4th year in bike camp, Em's 3rd and Reese's 2nd.

By day 2 Reese was on 2 wheels!!  Cal and Em took her out 2-wheeling the week before and she did pretty good so we were 110% sure that she'd be fully on 2 wheels within the first 2 days of bike camp :)  

Emerson had a blast!  She was so proud to go on a few trail rides and learn hand signals!  She was hesitant about riding her bike at the beginning of the summer but after the week at Ol MacDonalds and a lot of biking with Grandpa and Dad, she was doing great and excited for bike camp!  Nicholas was in her class and they had a lot of fun together!

Blake went on a lot of long distance rides, riding to the Muttart one day!  He has advanced to road riding and learned the rules of the road.  He had a great time and learned a lot and now thinks he should be riding on the road, when we go on family bike rides ;)

Another great week of summer camp, thanks to Pedalheads!  Hopefully we'll be able to fit this camp into our summer, in 2016!

Day 1: Group warm-up, gorgeous day!

Face painting on the last day :)

Connor did so great!!

Hrdlicka's and Cameron's: L to R, Nicholas, Blake, Emerson, Presley and Reese (Carson is actually behind Presley!!)

SK Road Trip

On Friday morning we loaded into the mini-van and headed for Saskatoon, SK!  We had to make a pit stop along the way as I had a phone interview for a position with AHS - more on that if/when I am the successful candidate ;)  We made the pit stop in Vegreville.  The kids and Cal ran into Walmart to buy Cal a pair of swim trunks and look around, while I interviewed from the van!!  When I was done we stopped at Timmie's and then the World's Largest Pysanka! 

The kids enjoyed seeing the egg and we took a quick photo before racing back to the van!  The rest of the trip was uneventful, the kids are such great travellers!  We arrived at our hotel in Saskatoon around 3 pm and quickly headed to the pool!  We don't stay in very many hotels, in fact this was only our 2nd hotel stay as a family of 5, and so the kids were anxious to try out the pool and water slide!!  After a nice swim we went to the Keg for dinner and came back to hotel to visit the Stecyk's for a few minutes before bedtime!

Saturday morning brought another swim, this time with the Stecyk's.  Then a movie in bed after showers, changing into our wedding clothes and we were off to Drake for my cousin Brynn's wedding!  It was a gorgeous ceremony, beautiful dresses and colors, gorgeous farm yard location.  In between the ceremony and reception we visited at my parents trailer.  The reception was great, the girls had fun dancing and it was great to see most of my cousins and my Grandma Marg.  The kids haven't seen their Great Grandma in awhile, so it was really nice to visit with her and we are lucky that she will be visiting here at the beginning of September!  It was a late night, we got back to the hotel just after midnight.  Blake fought falling asleep the entire drive home, just so he could say he stayed up past midnight ;)

We left pretty early on Sunday morning and arrived back in Edmonton just in time for Blake's 3 on 3 hockey game.  It was a fun weekend and we send big thanks to my parents for the use of their hotel points!!

It's hard to believe July is 1/2 over.  We've had such a great summer break up until this point and have so much more summer fun planned!!  

Talk to you soon,

Tracy 

World's largest Pysanka!

Blake and Cal teamed up to create a tsumani in the hotel pool, lol!

Little fish!

Movie and pretzel time :)

Brittany + Brynn

How cute are these 3?!  Reese and Emerson with their cousin, Connor!

Great Grandma Marg with Reese, Blake and Em

We clean up nicely :)