Been a blogging slacker again lately!  Spring has sprung in Fort McMurray and as per usual, by spring I mean summer!  We have two seasons.  Winter and Summer.  Literally the river broke at the beginning of May and then it was summer.  Has barely been a day colder than +25C.  Here is what the weather was like April 28:

And....now....

We spent May VERY VERY busy....the first week (May 1-3) I was in Edmonton with my students for 3 fun filled yet very educational, days. The next weekend Chris headed to Etown for a guy's weekend full of farmers markets, West Ed mall shopping, golf and nosebleed seats for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.  The following weekend was May long weekend (Happy Birthday Queen Victoria! Thanks for the long weekend :) ) and we headed south yet again! Chris and I had tickets to see Carrie Underwood with Ariane and Rob.  We got to enjoy some catch up time with the Brzoza's and with Shannon, Joe and the kids. I got to have some Pizza Delight pizza and garlic fingers (yumm, now I'm hungry!), spent a day at the World Water Park in West Ed and let the kiddos spend their hard saved piggy bank money at the Disney store.  

In May we also finished up swimming lessons, started the next session of skating, started soccer, and became skating drop outs :( Who wants to spend their Tuesday and Thursday evenings in a chilly rink when it's 30 degrees outside?  Not mama! Owen has also learned to ride a two wheeler without training wheels! He would much rather be out biking than skating these beautiful evenings.  

Here a few pics of what we have been up to lately :)

Also in May, I took on a new challenge and started a thrice weekly outdoor boot camp.  I. thought. I. was. going. to. DIE! It has been really hard work, my shins and calves have taken a beating, but I'm proud to say I finished the first month strong (and quite a few inches smaller!) and am now on to month 2!  At this point I can now keep up (mostly) with the skinny bitches in the group and am no longer the "beginner" of the group. I'm now at the point where I can join the other girls and "make my workout harder" by adding weights to my squats.  I started out May 6 not being able to do a single burpee, now (even though they are the bain of my existance) I can complete a real live burpee! Yay me! And by not being able to do a burpee, I mean I couldn't even get in the right position to do it, I would get down there and be all like, ugh, my body don't work that way, you know I don't do that!