Just before all the schools let out for the holidays, Justin thought it would be a great day at the Sugar Bowl for some tobogganing! He was right it was a blast!!! We were the only ones there for most of the time and Mackenzie was a true dare-devil!!!
Kenzie insisted that she go it alone. She must have walked up that hill 50 times by herself!
It was a fantastic snow day!!!
Kenzie was a cute 50 60's dancer this year. Her most favorite thing was the fact that she got to wear make-up!! 
At the Truck or Treat.
Doing some posing for mom.
She was and expert at the twist!!
Mackenzie started preschool Sept. 9th, and boy was she ready!! Her preschool is called Noah's Ark 1st Adventure and it's in the basement of a beautiful church in downtown Lethbridge. What a wonderful experience she has to learn and grow and meet new friends!
On the front steps of her new school!!
This is a picture she drew for her teacher Mrs Slomp.
This is very own cubby!!
This is the last picture I got of her before the kids were whisked away into preschool heaven!!
Tears of joy!!! For real!!!
Daddy was there to pick up his princess!!! 
One of the tour guide girls showed Kenzie how to feed a 2 month old eagle a cut up mouse with a pair of tweezers.
All the birds are teathered to there posts. This beautiful bald eagle was stunning to look at up close!
This eagle was brought in by a lady who found it near death after being shot in both eyes and chest.
Mackenzie and her friend Summer got to hold this adorable little owl.
Sweetest thing ever!!!
I got to hold it too!!
I also got to hold this beautiful owl named "Gordon".
Kenzie is feeding the ducks here. These ducks were CRAZY!!! As soon as you threw the food down they attacked you!! Kenzie and Summer were not keen on that, so Susan and I were left to distribute 10 pounds of duck food while Kenzie and Summer screamed and ran away from greedy duckies!!!
We just heard lots of high pitched squeals!!! It was too funny!!
They preferred to hang on the bars!!
Those darn ducks followed us till they ran into some other suckers that had food!!
This little guy was in the gift shop. I wanted to take him home. Kenzie is Hooing at him. I love that they never look amused!!! After the Birds of Prey Centre we hit Mcdonalds for lunch and the girls played in the playland. Another fun fun day in Southern Alberta!!!
Every year for Whoop Up Days the fair comes to the exhibition grounds and invades our neighbourhood with loud music and delicious stinky greasy food smells. Instead of avoiding the somewhat "white trash" event we joined in and made it a day to remember!!!
We were lucky to have cousin Jordan come with us and later Amber joined us. 
Who can resist a ferris wheel!! On this day, from 1pm to 3pm, you got to get on the rides for 1 ticket, so we had to get in as many rides as we could. This was Kenzie's first ride ever!! She waved to me every rotation shouting "hi mom!!". 
I think the Merry-go-Round is the most beautiful ride!! I really thought this would be Kenzie's favorite ride, but I was wrong!
Maybe he'll realize one day that they really don't go anywhere!!
It was the Tilt-a-Whirl!!!!! She giggled and screamed the whole time!! When we got off, I thought I was going to puke and she said "let's go again!". Every night before she goes to bed, I ask her what her most favorite thing that happened to her today was and 3 days after the fair she still says "when I got to go on the Tilt-a-Whirl 2 times!
Amber screamed more than me!!!!!
Her second favorite thing was winning an adorable cow purse at the fish pod game.
A fun rollercoaster ride with Jordie.
To celebrate Justin's 39th birthday, we packed a picnic and put on our hikers and headed to Waterton for the day. It really is an amazing place that lets you explore and enjoy nature to it's fullest.
Justin had noticed a little squirel creeping up on Kenzie, so he called out to her to turn around. As soon as she noticed it she totally jumped in surprise and then went chasing after it. It was totally funny!!
We walked by this patch of flowers and noticed about 8 to 10 bees collecting pollen. After being bit by 3 wasps this summer, I didn't get to close!!
A sweet birthday kiss!!!
Tired legs get awesome shoulder rides!!
Heading back all wet and cold!!!
She still managed to pose for yet another picture.
We had a nice break at this awesome playground and watched Kenzie meet new friends and make rock pies.
She probably could have sat right between them and they still wouldn't have moved!! These ones definitley wouldn't have kicked her in the face!!! LOL
This doe might have if we got to close to her babies!!
On the way out of the park we noticed a bunch of cars pulled over so we stopped to see what they were looking at. We looked up the hill and saw 2 grizzlie bears. Glad we didn't run into them on our hike, but sure glad we got to see them from a pair of binoculars!!! They were stunning to watch!!! It was a great thing to see at the end of a perfect day!!!
