Whatever!

So, this is what happens when two, hyper girls

get a hold of your camera.  I had no clue.

They almost look like they're in a photo booth.

They took picture,

after picture,

after picture.

My girls.  Gotta love 'em.

Silly People

We saved the best 'til last and took them to experience 

BULK BARN!

Everyone picked up a little something as a treat and I bought some

gummy teeth,

the picture didn't turn out as funny as I'd planned, but we had a blast 

taking it, we laughed and laughed.

Kaitlin on the other hand looked stellar.  A real star!

Now that's funny!  

At least the teeth were tasty.

We have sure enjoyed their visit, we laughed and talked, ate
yummy food and treats, watched some major olympic events and
talked some more.  It was great.

Thank you Kent, Wendy, Karlee and Kaitlin, for spending
your summer vacation with us and for bringing Courtney with you.
We will miss you, but will see you in a year.  Yeah!

The "Ledge"

Then we went to play at the "ledge".  This is one of our favorite 

places to go and hang out.

Kent is doing the karate kid "crane" pose.

Cute family, I set up the pose.

Kaitlin was too darling!

They are so like their mother, the pilates queen.
That must make them pilates princesses.

They do a lot of this balancing thing, on all kinds of dangerous edges.

Silly girls.

I love this wading pond, it's so interesting and unique.

Pretty day, pretty picture.

This "100" sign is new since the last time we were here.

It says, celebrate Alberta's legislature.

Oh yeah, I had that as one of the questions on my missionary

Canadian quiz, Alberta's birthday was 1912.

We didn't think quick enough, we should have brought Chris' good

camera and taken some senior pictures.

So I took some, just for fun.

It helps that she's a poser, go Kaitlin, work it.

There were all kinds of people and families playing

in the reflection pool today, it was really fun.

More pictures of Kait,

The grounds were gorgeous,

and so was this lovely couple.  Gorgeous.

They looked so great and so happy.  We were just as happy to

have them come up and visit us.  We are so lucky and blessed

to have such good friends.

I caught Chris, just hangin'.

Downtown!

After the temple, we took Kent, Wendy, Karlee

and Kaitlin on the downtown tour. 

 The same old things we always take visitors to see, 

but there's always something new that we pick up on.

They are painting and covering all of these boxes, downtown

and all throughout Sherwood Park.  This one's kind of scary.

We showed them Chinatown, the gateway,

 the phone booth, see the cute little roof,

and the "gate of happy arrival" sign.

This was a unique little red brick building, it's pretty dressed up 

for this part of town.  Gutsy.

To the Temple, and Beyond

The temple has been closed for cleaning for the past two

weeks, so the Packer's made sure they were able to stay and

 do a session with us.  We even got special permission to have

 the girls do baptisms for the dead. It was a very special day.

Here are our cute girls with Moroni,

and the girls up close,

and Kent with his sweet daughter's. 

He performed all the baptisms and Chris was the name 

checker offer. (the one that feeds the names through the viewer)

We had a unique opportunity.  Because we needed extra

priesthood, we had our two assistants, stand in as the witnesses.
Very remarkable.

What a beautiful, eternal family.

And what a beautiful daughter of God.

we are so grateful to have our daughter here

and temple worthy!  We are so proud of all our

children.

After the temple visit, we took them on the rest of

the Edmonton tour.

Goin' swimmin'!

Today we are taking the Packer's to the best indoor water park in the world.

Or at least the best one we've ever been to.

Kaitlin's going to try a little surfing, right off the bat.

Dressed and ready to roll.

There is so much to do and see.

First up, the mega pink slide, it goes all the way around in a 

complete loop.  They went right for this one first.

Go big or go home I always say.  I graciously volunteered to

 take some pictures and get them on film.

Say "hi" girls, who gets to go first?

Ready, set, DROP!

Here she comes.

and,  she's . . . .

safe!

They all tried the loop and they all made it.  

And that was just the beginning.

We spent several hours there, in the wave pool, on the

tubes, in the water playground and on most of the slides.

Troopers!

Sunday Supper

We enjoyed a wonderful sabbath with our dear friends.  We took them

to our ward and proudly introduced them to everyone as our dear

friends and Courtney's Mom and Dad.

For supper we had salmon, yum.  Everyone made it their own way.

Not quite sure what is in Kent's bowl.  Maybe he wants a bigger salad.

Kaitlin, she's so silly, I really miss her.

She zoomed right in on my fruity gum display, 

display being the optimum word here.

I bought these darling little fruit gums last year for a decoration

to put on my counter.  They were so fun I stored them 

away during the winter months and brought them out again

this summer.  Well, before I knew it, Kaitlin was taking one out of

the jar and attempting to chew it.  I thought for sure she would

break a tooth, but they were surprisingly still fresh and soft enough. 

 She ate a half dozen before the visit was through.

We have visitors that are staying around for awhile, mark

their cups so we don't go through as many.  

Here are the Packer's, Kent, Karlee, Kaitlin and Wendy!

The best friends in the whole world, we owe you our lives

for taking in our baby girl and letting her live with you.