Last of the summer updates

This is the last of the catch up blogs.  It's a lot of pics of all sorts of things we did during the summer.  

A couple pics of playing at the park at Henderson.   I love these couple of pictures. It's this little cup looking thing that spins around.

Here is Braiden spinning...  Then trying to stand up...

                           And lastly - landing on his butt!

 Caleb playing on another spinning contraption, which had ropes that you could climb up as well.  I don't get the whole wanting to spin thing.. I have always thought that they are the worst.  But the boys seem to love them.

One afternoon we hit up the Birds of Prey centre.  I had not been there since I was young - and it was with the Chicago cousins back then too!

Here we are about to feed the ducks.  I know you can't see any here, but there were a bunch of them.  Caleb especially loved them - he kept chasing them and tried to jump into the water after them.  He is starting to get quite the fascination with animals, and mainly with birds.

The ones who wanted to, got to hold an owl.  It was pretty cool, and Caleb got to pet the owl.  

At the little indoor centre they had a big open room.  Perfect for little guys to run around in.

Here are Caleb and Kent running around - Caleb thought it was great fun to run after him.

This summer my brother got a new trampoline, and so he gave the old one to my parents.  It is a huge hit with all the kids.  And it's always that much better when you have a sprinkler under it.

Braiden and Clarke jumping

We had to make sure that the smaller guys got to take a turn as well.  So they could have it all to themselves. 

While we were in Banff we stopped for a bit at the hot springs.  It was a little pool that was BOILING! I know that is the whole point, but I'm not much of a hot tub person and am done with them pretty quick.  Also we were expecting something like that is at Fairmont, but it was just this little pool.  Oh well.  Lesson learned...

A couple pics of us camping.  It was a pretty nice campground, except for the poor tenters.  they had quite the adventure, and Mother Nature was not kind to them at all!

The kids up to something at the campsite.  They seemed to always find something fun to do.

On our way back from Banff we stopped at the Kananaskis village for a little bit.   Just so we could stretch our legs.

All the kids posing for a picture - and mainly just trying to appease us adults. 

 Blaine and Caleb by the pond thing they had.

This is what Caleb usually looked like when he was by the water.   He just couldn't figure out why we wouldn't let him jump in.  The kid can't go by any water without wanting to dive right in.

Braiden and Tyson climbing on some more rocks

Braiden striking a pose 

 Caleb actually not moving!  This only lasted about 30 seconds...

So there is the end of the summer updates.   This past week I really have felt like the countdown was on for the end of summer.  Here is just hoping that winter stays away for awhile longer.