Mid-week adventure

We drove up to Edmonton for the night, with one purpose in mind...the Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concert. I have to be honest and say...it was AMAZING!! They are so talented! I loved it so much that I wished I could have gone the next day!! I wish we could have afforded better seats, but I am just so happy we got to go. They put on such a great show and they are just so entertaining. I have to admit that Tim performance was a little better to me, but it was all still fantastic! I loved seeing them in concert together. My absolute favorite was the very end. They had done their encore and everyone around us was leaving. I was sad because they hadn't sung my favorite song. Then they came up on stage and they were sitting very close to each other, face to face. They were sharing a mic and they sung I Need you. WOW!! I loved that song before, but now I love it even more. It brought tears to my eyes to hear them sing that to each other. If you haven't heard the song yet, you should check out their new video. Now this isn't anything like it was on stage, but you can get an idea about how nice the song is by watching this.


Here is a picture of them singing It's Your Love, which was also an incredible performance.
So Jimmy and Alysha watched the kids for us while we went to the concert, and we are so grateful for that. Thank you guys! I had to take them so we could go to the waterpark the next day. What a mistake that was. Jimmy and Alysha put them to bed at their house and we had to wake them up to take them to the hotel when we go the their house. I know, we are mean parents and we totally deserve what we got. So at the hotel, Donovan is still screaming at 2:00 in the morning, he just didn't want to go to sleep. I felt so bad for people in the rooms around us. I hope he didn't wake everyone up. Donovan finally went to sleep at 2:30, and then Clara woke up at 6:30, waking all of us up with her. That was a good night sleep! We decided to still go swimming though, I wasn't dragging the kids all this way just to go home when we woke up. Lucky for us, they were so good, even with their lack of sleep. We shopped for 2 hours before the waterpark opened, then we went swimming for an hour. I think we all had a good time in the end, but it was a hard drive home working on no sleep. We made it home just in time for me to get in the car and drive to work. I was so tired my whole shift, but it was SO worth it.

Donovan kept clinging to his daddy. It was so cute. For some reason he was scared to go stand in the water by himself at first, but eventually he got better.
Clara was very adventurous and after 3 times going up the stairs to this slide, and coming back down, she decided she was going to try it. Then we couldn't get her off of it!

Our Accident Child

So since Donovan started walking, we have had quite a few accidents. He is so clumsy and just has no fear. He always has somewhere to go and his feet move there faster than his body half the time. So we end up with problems, as you can tell by these pictures. It's crazy to me that Clara is 2.5 years old and the first time I saw blood from her was a month ago when she scraped her knee, and that wasn't even bleeding enough to require a bandaid!! I am sure Donovan is going to cause me a lot of heartache and has many more accidents ahead of him!!



The first two pictures are a result of him falling into a coffee table. It wasn't a huge cut, and it didn't bleed a whole lot, but it was deep and quite wide, so he needed a stitch. I just keep thinking we are so lucky it wasn't closer to his eye!

These pictures are from today. We don't know what happened, he was walking down the hall and must have fallen or something. By the time we got to him he was his nose and mouth were bleeding quite a bit. It was pretty gross. That is not paint, marker or food all over him, it is blood. He is one crazy kid, but we will keep him!!!
This is a picture I took when he woke up after his fall. His mouth is so swollen. I hope he doesn't have permanent damage, it looks pretty sore. Poor guy. He is such a disaster sometimes.

Our Recent Adventures

We have had some exciting things happen in our lives the last little while. The biggest being that Jeff finally has his time in articling!! It's crazy to me that it is finally over. Once Jeff gets his papers submitted, he will officially be a CA!! Being a CA brings a lot of opportunity. Jeff can now switch jobs and persue what he really wants to do. Another thing he can do is apply for a secomdent, which is basically a transfer within KPMG to another firm, anywhere in the world for a certain period of time!! We have decided this is what we are going to do. We looked into going this October, but his firm would not let him leave until after busy season this year. So, we are going to go away next May!! We have chosen Australia, and we will leave for 18 months. That brings us back just in time for Clara to start kindergarten back home. I am probably the most excited about this. I have spent hours and hours learning everything I can about this amazing country.

I hope the next 11 months go fast. I think they will because we are going to Vegas in August, and Jeff has another business trip to Boston in November. This time it could be as long as 3 weeks or as short as 2. Regardless, I will be packing up the kids and heading to Boston with Jeff for that month. I can't wait, Boston is a beautiful place and I am excited to have more time to spend there! After the trip it will be busy season for Jeff and that ends in April. Then it is time to pack up and head to Australia!!

In the meantime, we will enjoy our lives and look forward to summer. We have been having such a great time enjoying the nice weather. Whether it be Calaway Park, the zoo, or just playing in our yard, we are loving it! I can't wait for summer to officially be here, then I can take the kids to the water park, I know they will love that. It is so fun to watch them enjoy their lives, I love seeing them so happy. There is nothing better than seeing a smile on their faces.