Almost there...

Evening sun over the mountains..

CrossIron Mills....

Today Susannah and I headed off for a girls weekend to Canmore - my favourite place in the world :)  

We left the other children at home, but we did bring Rosie, because we're planning a weekend of hiking - as much as possible anyway :)  Unfortunately Canmore got a good dump of snow on Thursday and the area is a bit of a wet, soggy mess....and as much as we've brought boots and plenty of socks, we were really hoping NOT to have to deal with too much of a wet and muddy mess...VERY different from last year in March when we were in Jasper and there was no snow at all!!

We stopped off on Gasoline Alley and found a quiet area for Rosie to have a run.....then we headed down to Balzac to the CrossIron Mills shopping mall....Rosie had another run there before we went shopping, and then another before we continued on our way!

The pictures above show the poutine I had for lunch at the mall - New York Fries do a Butter Chicken Poutine!!!!  It was YUMMY!!!  Totally unhealthy but delicious :)  

The light is another picture I snapped in a store - this time in Urban behaviour - I love how some lights look in Instagram pictures :)  

This was our third visit to CrossIron Mills....it was really quiet today.  I still MUCH prefer West Edmonton Mall.....but maybe that's because I'm not really into labels and designer wear...or shopping!!  But we did finally get Susannah some shoes - and I got a pair for myself at last - Rosie chewed one of my running shoes up about a year or so ago and I had never got around to replacing them...I'm not really a runners kind of gal - unless I'm running lol - but I really wanted some comfortable runners for wearing to walk Rosie when it dries up...and just around the acreage etc....and today I found the perfect ones.  Soooo comfortable!!  In fact I wore them the rest of the drive here and was so pleased to get my boots off.  

I'll post a pic of Susannahs new shoes tomorrow - she loves them - I definitely made one very very sweet girl very VERY happy :)

Brotherly love :)

Laurence and Sam were messing about on my bed this morning and making each other laugh....I snapped a couple of pictures of them because they looked so sweet together - and because with his mop of curls, Laurences head looked twice the size of Sams ;)  

They get on so well most of the time - because Sam and Laurence have the same kind of sense of humour - toilet humour makes them both laugh ;)

Fixed!!

Susannah fixed Sams badminton racket for him :)

I'm not to hopeful that it's going to work ;)  Sam thought it was kind of cool though :)

Message in a bottle...

This morning I was filled with love  <3  

My GORGEOUS little boy came into my bathroom as I was packing to leave, and he gave me a bottle.  He told me it was a pirates bottle - with a message in it - the kind of bottle people - and pirates - throw into the sea and then people find them and can read them :)  Awwww

I carefully opened the bottle and took out the rolled up paper - it was a little damp from the water inside the bottle <3

Inside was the note in this picture :)  He tells me it is the North Pole, with a rainbow over it :)

LOVE <3