Summer Heat! UMMM okay....

The top 5 things I miss about Canada are......

1. The most beautiful summer days...and nights -midnight walks when its just starting to get dark!

2. It rarely gets really hot!..... the heat is killing me! I am glad we didn't move down in the summer or I wouldn't be able to handle it!

3. Chinese Food....is wayyyyyyyy better up there....in fact any type of Ethnics food (minus the Mexican food of course) is soooo good. Like our favorite place... Cilantro for some amazing food!

4. There is enough diversity that I don't feel like I am white bread stuck in the middle of a wonder bread loaf...that is frozen of course ...and then thawed - gotta love the Utah Mormons!

5. The amazing friends that we had...that we miss all the time...wondering if Shannon found any more random rude people at Tim Horton's....or if Tanya is going to find Teo doing any crazy toilet tricks....or Amanda finding Walker or Jackson getting into mischief! or of course our Work friends who every day found a way to tell us how many days there were until the Stampede.





And to make you laugh....here is the explanation of this video. I was trying to teach Mikayla to be quiet in Church one day...so when she started screaming like normal...I patted her mouth so it made sort of an Indian noise....like ma-ma-ma-ma.... so she thought it was funny and before I knew it she started her own way of doing this....with food in her mouth....and of course some dancing while she's eating..... I have been trying to capture this for a few weeks now- so I am glad I had my camera out at good old Village Inn...

Well Mikayla is walking soooo much now. I can't believe that in just a few short days she is now walking instead of crawling everywhere! Because of this...she now loves the backyard. She loves playing in the puppies water....and caring things around (like our nice spoons) to find dirt clots!!!! YUmmmy!

Having fun with a little visit from Uncle Ryan...who she has always taken a liking too!...and of course for another laugh...Ryan isn't use to the UV rays so High so I put some sunscreen on his back while he was helping Jonathan with some yard work.....as you can see I think I missed a spot!

Yes I actually am doing an update!

So onto a new month and of course Mikayla is now walking!....of course if she wants to get around fast she prefers to crawl but she has been trying to walk everywhere she can.

We got some new shoes for her today....Pumas of course! her first real shoes!.....so Auntie Bree will be very proud of her!

Also she has become so much fun lately....here are a few pictures from the past few days.

Jonathan is still having tests done for this crazy illness he has so we have been trying to keep occupied in other ways (besides me having time on the computer). I finally realized today that I miss doing this because its my way to vent...and chat to my very very missed friends back in Calgary!!!!!

As you can see- Mikayla has become a handful very quickly...I can just imagine how crazy she would be if she was a boy!!!! Thank goodness for little girls!.... This last picture shoes her lovely teeth....cheeeeeese!

Un-Crappy Birthday to Me!

So to put it bluntly it seems that every year I end up having something crazy happen...last year was an unusual one because I was recovering from having Mikayla...but this year.... crazy all around.

Jonathan had the opportunity to go to Australia for work. He seemed to be doing okay when he got there but just had a bit of blotchy swollen legs from the flight. He emailed me a few times telling me that he was having these crazy stomach pains and finally went to an ER down there. So he went and was given a bunch of pain medicine but no answer to why he was feeling so yucky. He flew back to the USA 6 days later and when he got into California he called to tell me that his blotchy legs were now this horrible rash and that if people saw it he wouldn't be allowed to fly home. I picked him up at the airport in SLC and asked him to show me some of this lovely rash......

Well I brought him home and met his Step-Dad who is an ER Doctor...and told us to go get some test done. The freak rash on his legs was also going on in his stomach. So my sweetheart was in a lot of pain and incredibly jet-lagged! He was given some pain medicine and sent home by this time it was May 21....So I decided to forgo being happy I was a year older...and realized Jonathan was not doing so well. We had planned a trip to Seattle the next day so I was on the phone with Doctors....and Airlines for most of the morning. Cancelling flights and trying to get him to see a specialist ASAP.

So to make this more stressful long story (that is still ongoing)short...We re-booked the trip and went to Seattle for a fun little vacation.

My little brother Adam and his girlfriend Heather were there as well so we had a fun few days with most of the fam.....of course we were missing our "Braddie" the whole time but hopefully he can come next time!

This is Mikayla and Me and Deception Pass right outside of where my Mom grew up on Whidbey Island Washington.

Mikayla and Uncle Ryan in the Cold Northwestern waters....the first time in the Ocean!

And of course the Happy Family...I loved this day because the weather was perfect!