Well, I'm back.  It was a long trip, but wonderful.  I loved every day of it.  The only low point was that N wasn't with me.  He was great about the whole thing though, and I know he had a good time while he was there. 
 
I spent so much time with my nephew that I'm sure he won't forget me this time.  It helps that it won't be too long before I see him again, but I still think I made an impression.  I'm really going to miss him though.  He's growing so fast, and I miss so much of it.  And my brand new niece, she was only 2.5 days old when I left.  My sister was great though, and she let me hold her as much as I could.  I hope it was enough so that she'll have some sense of me.  Maybe it's dumb, but I feel pretty isolated out here these days.  Everyone else is together, and there for the good stuff.  I always feel like I have to be 'super fun' so that they'll remember me when I'm not there.  Ah.  Enough of that. 
 
So, they named her.  Annabel Jayne.  I went shopping for her baby shower today and got 2 adorable outfits!!  I just need to get a card and then send them. 
 
I don't think I mentioned yet that they had a surprise shower for me while I was back.  It was great!  N was in on it, and I had NO idea!  He drove me to Invermere the day that they set everything up.  I even got to have one of those hats made out of all the bows and ribbons from the gifts.  It was so nice.  My sisters put it all together, and it was really nice to see people that I hadn't seen in ages.  I have to say though, that it does feel very weird getting gifts when it's not my birthday or Christmas.  I just felt like I hadn't done anything to deserve it.  But I did get beautiful things.  Spoiled. 
 
What else?  Hmm.  I went to Idaho for an afternoon with my dad.  We went to find this solar power house, they sell solar power stuff and run the whole place off the grid (whatever that means).  It was a very funny drive, and we're lucky that we weren't shot by white supremacists for trespassing when we got some seriously misguided directions.  (They tell me there is lots of them in Idaho.)  We went to the accordion festival in Kimberley, there are pictures on N's site.  Chase decided he wanted to dance among all the other (old) polka dancers, and enlisted his Ba (grandpa) to dance with him.  Soooo funny, but maybe only for me and my sister.
 
Kay.  I'm rambling.  Must stop typing until I have something to say.