I was wondering if my blog was even still going to be on here when I logged on today, given that it has been so long since I updated it, I thought that it might have been taken down :)... I do have a good reason for this, well, I guess you could call it an excuse, well, several excuses actually.
As I have alluded to in previous e-mails, Trent and I had a wickedly awesome but busy summer planned. Trent is working 4 days a week due to the slowing economy and I am still at home with the little guy so we thought, hey, let's get out and do some rad stuff! We began the summer with a bang, and did an attempt on Mt. Athabasca with a group of friends on June 15th. We left the parking lot at 2:15 a.m. and it was 12 DEGREES CELSIUS! This is not what you might call ideal glacier travel conditions. But, we headed up to the glacier in the dark anyway, just to see if things might cool down. Not so much, so, after about 3 hours of walking, we turned around and headed down. It wasn't a total loss, but it sure wasn't the day we had planned on. C'est la vie I suppose.
The next adventure for me was a triathlon the following weekend in June. It was a sprint distance event in Spruce Grove and I actually had a great race. I am super happy with my time and enjoyed the race a lot. It was neat to race in Spruce as I knew many, many of the competitors. Hope they bring the race back again next year. This pic is of my great friend Jill and I after the race - 2 super mom's!
The next weekend we departed for Kelowna (yes, again), but this time we had my parents with us. We spent the weekend with Tess and Loic (thank you guys again, you rock!) and then hopped on a houseboat in the schuswap for 4 days with our friends Chris and Jaime. It was super relaxing and the weather was spectacular! We really, really enjoyed our time in B.C. again and are still considering moving there someday, although I think we will absolutely need to move as a 'foursome' since we seem to be joined at the hip these days! This pic is of Chephren swimming in the lake -it was cold, but not too cold for my little fish!
The next weekend we were with friends in Banff (I told you - crazy summer!). We hooked up for a day of rock climbing in Heart Creek and then camped at Tunnel Mountain and then at Mosquito creek the following night. We spent Sunday on Lake Minnewanka which I had never even seen before so that was kind of neat. All in all, we had an enjoyable camping experience and as usual, Chephren was a camping all-star. This pic is of Trent and Chephren on the Lake Minnewanka boat tour - which we did for free thanks to Amanda's friend Kristina - score!
Now comes for the not-so-positive reason why this blog has sat vacant for so long. At the end of June, I was diagnosed with Post-Partum Depression. I wavered on whether or not I was going to write about it at all on my blog, but I feel that it is nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about. I am being treated for it now and things are going much, much better. Needless to say, it forced us to re-evaluate our summer plans and we decided to try and slow things down a bit.
Now, even with PPD, you should know that 'slowing things down a bit' might not mean the samething to me as it might to other people. I swear that I am incapable of being idle! So, my parents, Trent, Chephren and I decided to get serious about our lot in Nordegg. We have spent the past three weekends there and it has been awesome. The boys have worked so hard that they managed to clear us a road and a building site! Plus, my mom took amazing care of Chephren whilst cooking us delicious meals so it was pretty much the best holiday ever for me. Just what I needed. Nordegg is so good for the soul - like plugging in your blackberry charger as my mom always says. One thing that did happen while we were there was a crazy summer storm. We woke up in the morning to find that a tree had fallen on Trent's truck (not so great as it is a work truck) and that literally THOUSANDS of trees were down in the subdivision. What a mess. People in the campground were actually hurt by trees falling on them. It was not a good scene at all. Luckily, no one was killed. On a happier note, this pic is of Chephren having a 'camping bath' - you can tell how much he loves it!
This weekend we are actually staying home, but it is our only free weekend until OCTOBER! (See? INCAPABLE of slowing down). What is on the agenda? Friends from Calgary are coming up next week (YAY!), then we are at a friend's lakelot (YAY!), then we are in Palm Springs for a week (YAY!), then we have a wedding, and then we are back in Nordegg to stump the lot (YAY!)
There, now you have the full Hasse story. Oh, I almost forgot, Chephren is 9 and a half months old now. He is crawling on his knees (Finally! He pulled that belly of his around for months!) and pulling himself up to standing on everything. He is just as happy as ever... most of the time. He still has his super hot temper and has taken to throwing himself around when he is mad. It is a bit ridiculous! I think he must get that from Trent (is anyone buying that?) He has 8 teeth now (yes, 8), and is an eating machine. He still loves to be outside, loves to 'jump' and loves music and books. We adore him more with each passing day.
Signing out for now... who knows when I will have time to update again! Hope all is well out there with all of you :)
Love, The Hasses
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