...a name.

I just realized I have never shared that we settled on a name for our sweet girl. I am getting settled back in to our routine at home since we returned early in this week. We caught up with family (my sister pointed out that this baby was only a month old and had been on vacation for half her life), caught up with work, saw the midwife (11lbs 5 ozs), and are throwing a six year olds birthday party. After I get a chance to breath again I look forward to a date with my computer. I want to answer the emails of all the people that have sent me their love and best wishes. And mostly I want to write. I had fallen in love with blogging. It was such a lovely part of waiting for Lola... Oh yah her name.

Lola Skye Dexie Walker

There is a long story behind the name and I will blog about that too... The summer is slipping by though and I will not be a slave to commitments when we have such a short sweet chance to feel the freedom of the long days of this glorious season in Northern Alberta.

...a road trip.

Road trips and newborns make it difficult to blog. We left Edmonton almost a week ago. It took five days and nights to get from the heart of the Alberta prairies to the West coast of B.C. Yesterday we made it to Vancouver. Our goal was to get the girls to an ocean and we did it. There were some sketchy parts to the car ride with a 3 week old that could not understand why we wouldn't pick her up out of that car seat. But there were some highlights for Meg. Hotels with pools and waterslides are at the top of the list. I forgot the cord to download photos from my camera so the visuals will have to wait.