Andrew finished up medical school and packed up the house and sold all of our junk and cleaned everything (with the help of cleaners) and made it home to Canada! I was so excited, because being a single parent is hard! Although I was super lucky to have lots of help from my family there are something things you just need the other parent for! The kids were really excited too, it was the longest we've ever been apart from Andrew. We also waited for Andrew to find out the gender of baby Cahoon #3 so that was the first thing we did when we got home from the airport!
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| The kids ran to Andrew when he came through the doors and we sang "I'm so glad when daddy comes home" |
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| Charlie and Elly were really helpful in decorating the Christmas Tree! |
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| Nana and Papas house is so fun! |
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| One day it was pretty warm so we went over to the blue park to get out of the house! |
Tim Hortons!
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| Oh Canada in the winter time... |
I have no pictures of it, but we got two week trial passes with the Schachers to all Edmonton Rec Centres, and we went A LOT! The kids loved the waterslides and the indoor playgrounds were amazing as the weather was getting super cold!
For mine and Shannons Christmas presents Andrew and Alex tried to send us to Jasper for two days, but we just felt like we couldn't squeeze it in right before Christmas! So instead we had a girls day. The boys took the kids to the Waterpark while Shannon and I went and painted pottery. I had an emergency Dr appointment (right after my gestational diabetes test so I totally thought I had it!) but it turns out I was just severely anemic, and then while I was there they realized I needed my WinRoe (?) vaccine for having negative blood and so I ended up staying at the Dr office for 2 1/2 hrs while they were back and forth on the phone to the hospital to try and figure out how to make it happen asap. Meanwhile Shan is waiting at Famoso for me... I eventually made it there and ate (Shan was long done!) then she ran some errands and I came home and got things ready for us to make hazelnut pralines! We did that and watched a cheesy Christmas movie, and Shan slept over (the kids were out in Tofield). The next morning we had cinnamon buns and then Shan got eyelash extensions from Mary while I went to the hospital to get my bloodwork done, so that I could go back that afternoon for my injection. I went home for about an hour in-between (Shan was still getting here lashes done!) then I went and waited for my shot! Just before she was about to give it to me I remembered that this one was in the butt! AH I'm glad I didn't remember earlier cause I would have been freaking out for ever! But it actually didn't hurt that much, i remember it hurting way more in Australia with Elly.... Anyways, I picked up Mikado on the way home and we ate and hung out for a while, and eventually the boys came home with the kids and then we babysat while they went to an Oilers game. Not exactly the girls day we had in mind with all the dr/hospital visits, but still a nice break from the kids!
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Painting ornaments at 'Clay and Cupcakes'. They didn't have a lot of selection, so I turned my
ornament into a jewelry dish by painting it inside out! It's very crooked... |
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| Chocolates! They were super lumpy but yummy! |
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| Shannon eating a lonely dinner on her own... |
