Road Trip!!!

Mother, Son and kidlets . . .

This weekend Braden took Friday off of work and we headed down to Stoney Creek, Ontario. We got to cut the trip up a little bit by stopping in Belleville to pick up a keyboard for my studio that I had found on www.kijiji.ca (awesome site!!!).

Grampa Ralph has been in the hospital with a broken hip and Gramma Ralph is still recovering from a broken leg so we were planning on getting down there to see them and then we got an email from Mom (Brade's mom) that she was going to be down there for a Ralph Family Reunion. With Mom only being a few hours away we couldn't pass this up so we decided this was the wknd for a road trip!

We got down there on Friday night and got in too late to see Grampa at the hospital, so we just went out to McDonald's for supper (because the kids say that we always do that with Gramma and Grampa Bailey) and then had a quick stop at Dollarama (because Emma says that this is the tradition - hehehe!). When we got back to Gramma's apartment Uncle Phil was there so we had a visit and the kids got to stay up later than usual - which they LOVED!

Main Street Unionville, OntarioThe pond that was behind the house we were at -
Emma and a newly met cousin dragged Uncle Dan around the entire thing - exploring each little cove.

On Saturday morning we got up bright and early and Uncle Dan met us at the apartment and we took off to the Reunion in Unionville. If you've never been there you absolutely have to!!! It is so cute and the shops - well - let's just say that I'd love to spend a wknd at a B&B there!!!

There was a tree swing in the backyard that occupied the kids for a LONG time!

We were kinda nervous that there weren't going to be any kids for our kids but to our surprize there were!!! There were 2 11 year old girls that Emma had a blast playing with and a 4 year old boy, Zac, that could have been another Kaleb. And then there was even a little boy younger than Navia, Sage, that Navia had so much fun playing stickers and monsters with.

Navia and Sage

It was great for Mom and Braden to reconnect with people that they haven't seen in years - and neat to hear all the old stories of when they were younger. I even found out a secret that I didn't know about my husband. . . When Brade and I were dating and singing with Higher Calling we had sung at the Stoney Creek church where Doug, Beth and Lois and Aunt Madeline came to hear us. I guess he took Beth and Lois aside and told them that I was the girl! Yep - I had him hooked from the beginning!!! Hee Hee!!!

Mom and Beth

Aunt Madeline, Mom, Winna & Brade

We got back from the reunion around supper time and stopped in at the hospital to see Grampa and the kids loved the fact that Uncle Dan brought them chips and pop for supper there - he won their hearts before, but now it was a forever thing!

Great-Grampa and Great-Gramma Ralph with Braden and the kids

On Sunday we visited with Uncle Phil and Aunt Janey at the apartment and then went for lunch with Gramma Margaret at Wimpy's - which the kids loved! We then got back to the apartment, picked up Gramma Ralph and went to the hospital to give Grampa the pictures that the kids had drawn for him and say good-bye.

Grampa, Mom & Gramma

Great-Gramma Margaret, Mom, Braden and the kidlets

We got back late on Sunday night and the kids were yawning like crazy this morning as they were going to school - but it was a really good trip and definitely worth the few yawns of today!

Each child took turns telling Gramma a story - it was really cute!

yep - even Braden got into it - hehehe!

(no stories for me - b said it looked to cheezy - spoil-sport!)