Grandpa and Grandma come for a visit!

This past week went by so fast, but left behind some wonderful memories! My parents arrived last weekend, just in time for staff training to begin at camp. It was the perfect week for them to come as Steve was gone from 9 am and worked until 10 or 11 at night. Poor guy. These last 2 weeks have been brutal for Steve and while everyone else was at sessions, or getting a few days off, Steve worked straight through for 2 weeks and is now absolutely exhausted, and camp hasn't even begun! Anyways enough venting! All that to say that I was very glad to have my parents around to help out with the girls and to have a good time with.

The week started with Grandma and Grandpa taking the girls for a day while I went with Steve to Victoria for the camp church invasion. 200 staff fit into a church downtown and then after we went to Beacon Hill Park for staff building games. It felt like a date for us as we got to drive to Victoria by ourselves, with adult conversation! We also went out for dinner and some icecream which was the perfect end to the evening. During the day we were away my mom painted our brown garage door white, and it looks excellent! My mom did a bunch of gardening around the house and my dad installed a new fan in the roof, they were such a great help!
One day we visited Salt Spring Island and hiked around Ruckle Park, it was gorgeous! We ate some yummy fish and chips on the ferry ride home.

The end of the week we went up to Parksville area for a couple of nights and stayed in a beautiful resort in Nanoose Bay. The girls and I got very spoiled! Adessa proved to be a insomniac as she did not want to miss a thing and therefore did not nap and woke up every few hours at night. Even though she barely slept, you would not know it, as she ALWAYS had a smile on her face and made everyone laugh. She is such a little character!

On Canada day we went into Parksville to watch the parade and Danika got loaded up with Candy. We went back to the resort after and rested all afternoon then packed the girls up and went to watch Trooper with 100,000 other people followed by the firework show. Definately the highlight of the night was when Danika started dancing around to Trooper! It was so fun watching Danika rock out to the songs. We really missed Steve, but he was back at camp working away as camp starts today! Mom and dad left early this morning and I miss them so much already! Thanks for the great time and good memories mom and dad! Oh and the weather is finally full of sunshine and warmth... figures since they left!

Adessa's new thing... playing telephone

Grandpa and Danika waiting for the ferry to arrive

The view from one of the hot tubs at the resort

Adessa cuddles are the best!

TROOPER!

Fireworks... Adessa loved them!