First thing on the agenda was for Kaidyn and I to go meet my new nephew and his cousin Gage! Erin and AJ definitely make cute kids and he is so smiley and cute. We met him at Earl's, and since we had just arrived, I was quite out of it and Kaidyn actually fell asleep at the table! Despite the jetlag, we were able to spend a lot of time with him over the entire break.
During past trips back home, we had made so many plans to visit people and travel around everywhere, but we are now learning from that and just giving ourselves some time to relax and spend some time together. Upon our arrival, we spent a few days just lazing around town etc., but then for Christmas, the four of us were fortunate enough to spend 3 nights at the Bourne cabin and have our own Christmas, just like before our move to Asia. This was probably my favourite part of going back this year. It was so cozy with the wood burning stove, tree, snow and our dogs!
After Christmas, we had made plans to stay with Carly and Cory and check out their new house in Leduc. After living in an apartment for the past 3.5 years, it was nice to check out a new home with so much room. We also visited Dan and Lynn, who have also moved into a brand new home. It was funny because both of the new homes have almost the exact same colour scheme inside! While we were up north, we also planned to meet Mark and Jolene in Edmonton for an Oilers' game and some dinner. Its been a few years since I've been to an Oil game and it really hasn't changed much at all. They still suck pretty bad and the music at Rexall is absolutely terrible. I don't know how they allow this to continue, but they need to ramp up the tunes during the game. Many times I found myself thinking that the song playing was so lame and putting me to sleep. Change it up already!!!!!!
Over the last few days, we spent some time with J and L Bourne and their kidlets. All of the kids just get along so well together and the had a great time playing inside and reluctantly outdoors too! They are all growing up so fast!
Now that we are back, we are back into our routine with work and school. We are hiring cleaner/helper full time to help with cleaning, cooking, shopping and babysitting. We have a half marathon in HK this weekend, and Amanda is headed to India with Vicki at CNY! How exciting and nerve racking for her. Kaidyn and I will spend a few days in HK during the break and putter around Macau for the rest of the week.
For Kylisha's grad, I bought her a GoPro camera for documenting all of her adventures and I fell in love with the camera. Amanda realized my enthusiasm and surprised me with one this xmas! I put together a little video with some of the clips I recorded since then and I hope that I can put together many more videos of our adventures here.
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