Wow, it's been a month since I have done anything with my blog. Feels like five minutes though...time has flown by.
We had a great summer and surprisingly did a lot of different activities. When I found out I was pregnant with all these babies, I assumed that we'd be homebound for quite some time....but that's not been the case!!!
So, here's what our little family was up to this summer....
At the beginning of August, we visited Mark's family in Regina/MooseJaw. We all crammed into one hotel room, which is something that I have to say, we are unlikely to ever do again. Might not have been so bad if we didn't have two cribs, bumbos, a double stroller, exersaucer, carseats, bottles, bottle warmers, nursing pillows and who knows what else with us. But we did. Crowded doesn't even begin to describe it. This is why hotel suites were invented, I'm sure of it!
Nobody slept. Not even a little bit. In fact, I'm pretty sure the first night I didn't even close my eyes. The babies woke up Rylen, and Rylen woke up the babies. Rhys was sick and feverish. It was truly awful.
We needed a lot of this in the morning:
But, it was all good, cause we got to visit some family members that have never met Garrett and Rhys before.
Later on in the month, we went camping! Garrett and Rhys and I travelled home for the night to sleep in the comfort of our own beds (the previous hotel experience completely scared us off from trying out camping overnight) but Rylen and Mark stayed. The next night, my parents babysat the babies and I got to join the boys for an overnight stay. It was so much fun and made me realize how much I love and miss camping!
At the end of the month, we rented a cabin for three nights in the Whiteshell...still scared from the hotel experience, but we wanted to do something all together as a family. "Conveniences" is a word that is very important on our priority list when looking for a place to stay. The cabin was right on the water so once we were there and settled in, we enjoyed three days free from packing stuff up to go to the beach. We just simply walked out the front door and we were there!
In between all of our adventures, we did some pretty cool things around home as well: swimming, splash parks, playgrounds.... summer is so much fun when you have kids!
Garrett and Rhys grew a lot. And they learnt some new things too, like sitting up!
It was a great summer. We did so much more than I ever thought we would, and we really enjoyed our time together as a family. When Rhys was sick in the NICU, I would often tell him "you need to get better and come home, our family is so much fun!" I would imagine us all together doing stuff just like we did this summer. I feel so lucky that we were actually able to do it!
