We have arrived & cottage week 2009!

Tug of WAR. the kids were surprisingly strong

Me in one of the relays

ted
melanie
the kids loved it. they laughed the entire time
water balloon toss
this was roxy majority of the time. She loved diggin in the beach and she even went swimming.
the kids playing
zoie being zoie
my borther brads family. ever year we do one big group picture and then individual family ones.
me and zoie on the dock
here is our family photo. i wanted to put roxy in it bu Ted said no.
my sisterss family

this is roxy in the moving truck where she had a nice spot next to ted on a pillow. spoiled much
documenting ted driving our huge moving truck oh im glad that is over.

Yes Yes I promise we are still alive. I know its been forever since I last posted well I have been a little busy!! Ya know moving to a different country requires a lot of work. Along our cross country drive (with the help from teds parents we could have never done it without you guys. thanks a ton) we stopped at winter quaters temple and saw the historic site. It was so sad to see all the names of children that died there. It truly is a special place. Oh ya for those who haven't heard Ted and I are living in Windsor Canada because Ted is attending law school in Windsor and Detroit. He is getting a US and Canadian law degree in 3 years attending these two schools. He started school this week and is getting to know everyone in his program. As for me I had to leave my amazing job at AF (shout out to all my AF girls I miss ya tons!!) but I had an interview this week at the windsor hospital to be a LD, postpartum and NICU nurse!! Can you believe it they do it all there. All the nurses are crosstrained to be able to do every area. I'm a little nervous and intimated as the hospital is huge! The Womens floor covers an entire city block from end to end. So I am waiting for my liscence to come through and hopefully I will get a job. We are almost finished moving in but I havent taken any pictures yet so I will have to post some later (after the overhaul of painting that desperately needs to be done).

On to the vacation we had last week. So we went up to the cottage for the annunal Templeman cottage week minus a few Templemans and kids. Although it felt like they were all there. Two of my sister inlaws had their babies a week before our cottage week and so all their kids and them were not able to come, however there were still 8 adults and 11 kids. Above are some pictures I captured of the week. We went boating, wakeboarding, cliff jumping and grandma templeman provided a plethera of events for the family olympics (tug of war, balloon toss etc. I must tell everyone that Ted lost to all the grandkids in the tug of war, it was hilarious) We also had the annual biathalon which involves all the neighbours and templeman clan but because I was in it I didn't get any pictures, sorry. We miss all our family and friends in Utah but don't worry I promise we will visit a ton.