Summer marches on, Lynsey leaving soon

This might be a first for me in all my years of blogging. We did not take one single picture in the last few weeks, unless you count pictures of mole traps and mole hills (we are fighting an epic battle right now lol). We truly did slow down this August and literally nothing has been happening! Lynsey has been working hard, last shift is tomorrow, Brian is working away and learning his new job, Nathan has had a few outings with friends but mostly just hanging out at home, and I have been taking it quite easy as well. I did figure out a bunch of stuff with our cruise in December, it's actually surprising how much time and research that needs. I also got Lynsey's flights home all booked for this year (except the one in December since I don't know what day her last exam is yet). I also took Lynsey and Nathan shopping yesterday, I should have taken a few pictures of that:-/.

On Tuesday, Lynsey and I will leave for Alberta to get her moved in to her apartment. Brian and I just packed up the van and it's not actually as full as I thought. There is still room for our suitcases and a few odds and ends thankfully. We will drive as far as Valemount the first day and go the rest of the way Wednesday. I'm a bit nervous about all the moving and shopping we have to do, but also excited to help her get settled in her new apartment. There will also be a lot of furniture to put together when we're there. I actually was only going to stay until Friday morning but decided to stay until Saturday so I had an extra day to help her out. I will be sure to take some pictures so my next blog post is more interesting:-S.

School starts in just over a week! Nathan is going to the high school, it feels a bit like we're in the home stretch now! No more middle school, just high school and college. Exciting times!

Fun times in Alberta!

We are back from our trip to Alberta! I'll start with the trip down there. We left last Thursday (the 23rd) and stayed in Salmon Arm for the night. We got there around supper time and got BP's takeout to eat in the room. Kendra picked me up and we went downtown to a wine bar type place to hang out and catch up, always great to catch up with old friends! AND I ran into Omar, Brian's old roommate and the officiant at our wedding - so random and fun to see him there, he lives in Edmonton and was just there vacationing with his family! The next day we drove the rest of the way to the family campout at Salem Acres Bible Camp. We had a great weekend with my family, even got to the do the canoe trip with the 4 of us while Adam (and Jasper) stayed behind at the camp. I wasn't sure he would be okay with staying behind but he did not seem to care one bit. Glad we all got to do it this time!

We drove to Calgary on Sunday after the campout wrapped up and hung out there until Thursday morning. It was very laid back, Mike and Annie were camping so we didn't get to see them. We hung out with Bobbi and Jer a few times which was fun as always, and I had lunch with Larissa on Wednesday. Thursday morning we drove to Coeur D'Alene for the night before heading home Friday. We actually had a pretty nice dinner at a restaurant (with a patio of course due to Jasper) but I didn't take any photos since we all looked so fried from all the travel :-S. Got home in the afternoon Friday and I spent the rest of the day unpacking, doing laundry, even got a gym workout in! 

Saturday was the first day of club volleyball tryouts. I was able to finally nail down the team I'm coaching, it's going to be the U16 team this year. I'm excited for the older age group but also a bit nervous to have older kids again, more pressure to win lol. I'm up to it, we got some good girls signed so I'm optimistic about the season. The tryouts were Sunday as well, I was helping out with the U15s as well. A lot of my girls came back which was good to see, happy they want to keep playing! That's always my goal as a coach, to be the kind of coach that make girls want to keep playing. Not everyone signed with Prism but a lot of them did, I hope they have a great season with their new coach:-).

Yesterday I started going through my kitchen stuff to see what I can give Lynsey for her new apartment. I'm so excited for her to start this new chapter of apartment living! We are driving down in three weeks, I can't believe it's so soon! Still have some things to gather but we've got a pretty good start.