A Week Ago...

My birthday was last Monday. We had a birthday party at 11:00 that night when Robert got off work. Chris & Heather, Sarah & David and us were there. Oh and since the begining of my lifetime my mom has made my birthday cakes in specific shapes. Heather decided to take over. She made the cake shaped like a baby because we all know what has been on my mind lately.

I know, I just turned 23 and Heather gave me a "Fancy Nancy" book. But I LOVE "Fancy Nancy". And most childrens books for that matter.

Cardston Temple

The Salmon's and the Curtis' at the Cardston Alberta temple. This is where Robert's parents and many other relatives of ours were married.

Bears Hump

This is overlooking Waterton Glacier Park. Our campground is to the right of mom. There are so many more things we did and pictures I took that I can't put on here simply because there are way too many. We rented mo-peds, played tennis/pickleball/football, swam in waterton lake, hiked, and saw a ton of animals. Anyway this picture is at the top of our hike up to Bear's Hump.

The chipmunks at the top of Bear's Hump (the hike) are so freindly. They climb right up on your lap. My mom screams everytime one touches her. Kinda funny. Robert, Tanner, Autumn and I fed them grandpa's whole bag of peanuts... I hope grandpa didn't want any for himself!

Okay, so Robert's hand is in front of his face, but if it wasn't, you could imagine it would be a really cute picture. Too bad the chipmunk didn't stay there long enough for me to take another one!

24th of July

The morning of the 24th of July celebrations starts with a parade. I am standing between Autumn and Garth. We are showing off the candy we gathered during the parade. The highlight of the parade was when someone on a firetruck threw a water balloon at Garth and it didn't pop... he went down the street chasing after them and got them back! It is just a short little parade which was perfect for a small town. (There isn't even a gas station in the whole town, but we love it).

The Paxman family softball team. Oh, and I will add...we won all three of the games we played.

After the baseball games we go down the the river bottom to cool off.

Who is the couple in the middle?

Autumn was quite mad because whenever we took pictures it "looks like Tanner is her husband." Anyways, I am just putting this one in for her... we are at a smaller lake right by Cameron Lake. Both are very beautiful places!

Fath's Birthday

Robert and I couldnt figure out what to get fath for his birthday, so we finally decided to paper mashay him a pinata. We hung it on a line between the two motorhomes. Tanner was on the roof of one motorhome and moved the line to make sure it was not easy for fath to hit the pinata.

Well...after a few hits the candy came out. Fath is making a funny face because the candy in his mouth was a lot hotter than he expected.

Red Rock Canyon

The whole family went to Red Rock Canyon on our last day of vacation. Robert, Fath, Tanner, Chris, Elbert etc. hiked all the way up the river and most of them have scratches and bruises to prove it! Along the way there are lots of naturally made waterslides. Here is fath (aka Darrell Paxman) going down one of them into the glacier water. Brrr.

Us standing in the canyon. Our family goes up to the canyon whenever we visit Waterton and it has become one of the highlights of our trip.