Jazz Goes to Steinbach, Manitoba to Meet the Family!

Summer is the best time to drive half way across the country and visit family in Manitoba. It was a first for Jazz; first time to drive 12 hours + in one day, and first time for him to meet my family there.

Jazz taking the wheel.

The first stop: Medicine Hat, Alberta

The second stop: Regina, Saskatchewan

Almost there: Winnipeg...45 more minutes until Steinbach.

Oh, we're there! There's Friesen Ave!

We had a wonderful welcome with a gathering on Sunday. Here's Uncle Smoky, Uncle Marty and cousin Connery.

Here's Auntie Bettie and Uncle Allen

Here's Meranda and Tony with their baby Margeux.

Monday we had dinner with more cousins and their growing families!

Now to show all the relaxation. 

Grandma had finger lickin' good butta suppe ready for me right away! YUM!

We really enjoyed chillin' out and reading in the backyard every morning. 

This is the most peaceful place I know on earth.

What perspective!

Grandma also made us a pie! YUM again!

And we sat back and played a lot of Skipbo!

Grandma treated us to a day at the Mennonite museum. 

Lots of learning and a little playing!

Weeeee!

I love my grandma!!!!

And my husband!!!!

Jazz's First Stampede!

Our good friends Kiely and Craig accompanied us to my first experience of the Calgary Stampede- the world's largest rodeo show and championships. We saw plenty of horses and cattle, small, large and XXLarge! There were art exhibitions and live music performances and although we didn't get to see much since we went quite late we hope to go again on Friday to 'probably' see a rodeo show. I say probably since I now have certain reservations about how they get the horses and bulls to 'buck'. Look up bull riding on Wiki...Not all that nice if you think if it were done to you! But all in all it was kool to see cow boys and gyals from the world over with stetsons as far as the eye could see. YEEE HAAAA!!

Those crazy cowboys want to be riding bulls with horns like these?

Terra and Kiely put on their own bucking rodeo show!

Even had my own little business running :o)

Silly Cow Girl!