No fireworks for us this year, but we did go to a firemans/Canada Day breakfast.

Hailey celebrated by wearing her Canada sweater and being really good at sitting up! Check out her new skill.

I thought this would be a good opportunity to tell you all what we love about our baby.

I love Lauren’s creativity and beauty. Lauren will show up at a party wearing an amazing skirt, or a gorgeous tank top, and upon asking her where she got it, she will respond “Oh, I made it” like it is no big deal. She is such a talented designer and creator – I hope we will be seeing some of her creations on this blog soon!

Lauren is also an incredibly beautiful girl. She has this gorgeous long blonde hair, and her eyes are so blue they are almost silver, and practically see-through. She is a pretty young woman (And I hope she comes to visit me over Stampede )

Lauren may be ‘the baby’ in terms of age, but you’d better believe the rest of us would have a hard time keeping up with her when it comes to her athletic ability. She’s been a ski racing champ, hard-core cheerleader, and just this past Sunday she ran a 5 km race…which I don’t think she trained for. She can play a decent game of golf with ease…heck, any sport really!

Dear Lowen,
I always wish you were with me when I am shopping because I always feel like I could use your advice! I love that photo of us from my wedding, it might be my favourite wedding photo (don’t tell Kent!) I love that I always know where to find you on weekend afternoons (laying on the couch watching some movie that we haven’t seen since we were kids.) And lastly, I love that you are the sister with the sense of humour closest to mine, meaning that you always know how to make me laugh.

Have a happy JUNE 9!

Love,

Micaela

Mom & Dad pre kids

Dad hanging with the 5 coolest kids eva

The fam at Erica's wedding (2 days before dad's half a century birthday!)

A certain person, my mother, hadn’t been out to see me at all and was feeling kind of bad about it. I assured her not to worry, she had a lot going on in her own life and that there would never, ever be hard feelings for not coming out to see me. And I truly, honestly meant it.

As many of you know, it was my birthday this past week.  My aunt had asked if she could take me to lunch and of course I wanted to. I got there first, and when she got there she sat down, we made a small talk and she just so happened to see someone she knew, who she ran over and gave a big hug to. “Funny,” I thought to myself. “The restaurant is dead, what a small world that she would see someone she knew.” The hug finished, and as my aunt turned around, there stood …

MY MOM!!!!

“Mom?” I sputtered as I stared at her, not sure if it was real or not. “What are you doing here?” Well, she came to crash my birthday party! That is the most dedicated party guest I had ever seen. We had an amazing visit, although I spent the day in Canmore after my birthday party in a fairly crapulous state.

We had an amazing, relaxing visit and I am SO GLAD she came!

Me & Mom

I had an amazing birthday party that was everything I wanted it to be and more. Thanks to the help of these girls!

Cousin Em, Nat, Me & Mich

My cousin Em is just kind of awesome, Nat is the one who wrote this post and Mich blogs here. She organized a meet-up in July and we have stayed friends because she is so wonderful. True story. Nat is even trying to steal her away from me. (I can’t blame her, I’d probably do the same.)

For those of you who asked about my birthday shoes, they came, and were too big for me I’ll still post a picture soon.

And my top is from H&M, since I know at least one person will be asking!