Our New Adventure

We have made it to Canada and are settling in. I have started a new blog for our Canadian Adventure so follow along if you would like at http://jonesncanada.blogspot.ca/

Lease Signed

We found a house and signed the lease tonight. The homeowners are so nice and the neighbor, who will kind of be the property manager, likes to hunt and play baseball so Kenny is in heaven.

O Canada

I think I will have to change the name of our blog to Our Canadian Adventure. We are on a house hunting trip this week and the weather is beautiful.....upper 60s and lower 70s. There are not too many houses for rent in the areas that we like that will allow pets. We have looked at a few and found one we really like but its a little small. Here you pay a lot and get very little. Tomorrow our last full day here I will look at two more houses and then we will have to make a decision. The boys already love it here. Its amazing what we are excited to see here...Taco Bell(we hardly ever eat there), Red Lobsters, Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond, Wal-Mart, Target, Dairy Queen, Sears. We even went to Wal-Mart and walked around to see if they have the same stuff our Wal-Mart has and they do for the most part. I guess coming from Africa we expected something similar. We knew that it was more like America but still wasn't sure. :-)

We have learned that sweet tea is called Iced Tea and Un-sweet is called un-sweet. A tuque is a knit stocking hat. They say "eh" and "for sure" a lot.

We haven't looked around much because Kenny has been working and the boys and I have been looking for a house. Tomorrow, we will look at two more houses and make a decision and sign a lease. Hopefully, if I have all of that finished by the time Kenny gets off work we will head out to the mountains for a little sight seeing before we leave Saturday morning.

Our first trip to Canada!!!!

We had to fly to Arizona first because of our late bookings which added a few extra hours to our flight but the boys loved seeing the Grand Canyon.

The Rocky Mountains.

Here are a few pictures from what little we have seen. These first pictures are of the Olympic Park where they held the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. They still use this area in the winter and the summer months. This is really close to our hotel so we went and looked around.

The Olympic Torch.

These are pictures of downtown where Kenny works.

That needle is a restaurant that spins 360 while you are eating.

Kenny's office building.

This is the Bow River that you have to cross from the North to get to downtown. Very pretty.

While looking for houses we found our first spot to plug in your car when you park it. I find this so so weird. The boys said they would use it to charge their IPads. :-)

We stopped at a play center and played black light putt putt.....

and the boys played in this huge play area forever. 

That's all I have for now. Tomorrow maybe I will be able to show you pictures of our house!!!! We are also going to try and take a short trip to Banff and see the mountains and have dinner. 

May 2013

May has been a busy month with substitute teaching and end of the year activities.

I have been subbing a lot in my nieces Pre-K classroom and she and I have been loving it. I took her and Jared to lunch a few days together.

She loves her Sophie dog. :-)

Emma on the last day of school with her teacher.

The boys had a track and field day at school.

The marched to the Middle School in a parade.

Jared raced in the 100 and 200 yard dash.

Jacob played soccer.

Relay races.

Mothers Day - I had a wonderful mothers day. Went to church with the family and went and took a few pictures at the park. 

Jared made me a "Dime-on-ring" for mothers day. 

Kenny and the boys got me a corsage for mothers day.

Wreath Making - Lindsey, Mom, Judy, Brandy and I went to OKC to learn how to make wreaths. It was a lot of fun until we left and got caught up in the tornadoes. We made it home safe and sound though.

I ended up making these wreaths for the boys teachers for the end of the school year. They loved them and I ended up selling 3 of them to other teachers. 

Putt Putt - A few weekends ago we cooked hamburgers at the park with the grandparents and Kenny's brother and son. The boys fished and then we all played putt putt.

This is Jacobs way of fishing. Let the fish come to you. He is the only one that caught a fish too. 

Jared fishing.

Mema and Pepa golfing.

Last weekend we helped cut down a tree at mom and dad and used some of it to have a hot dog roast and smores. 

Jared playing in the dirt and watching a worm crawl around.

Jared being silly and doing tricks on the trampoline.

Last RE class the kids played games and had a cook out. This one they had to catch Cheetos on their head.

Emma's Graduation

Last day of school

  

Jared and his helper teacher Mrs. Ousley 

Jared and his teacher Mrs. Brewer.

Jacob and his teacher from Marlow Mrs. Hines

  

First and last day of school. Africa August 2012 and Marlow May 2013.

Jacob first and last day of school. Can you tell he was excited about the last day of school. :-)

Jared first and last day of school.