February in a Post

First off, Cole turned two on February 7th!! I was a little sad that day because I'm having to let go a little more because he's a year older, but it was a fun day.  Cole got cars from his Grandma and Grandpa (Hansen)- two Lightening McQueen cars and Doc.  He takes these cars (especially Doc) everywhere and usually sleeps with them too.  So cute!! From Grammy and Grumps (my parents) he got a giant set of lego which he also loves.  He gets so excited by the things he builds with them.  Sometimes he gets pretty upset when it doesn't work like he was planning on too.  I think both reactions are pretty cute:)

 

One weekend we went to the Olympics!!!  It was awesome.  I loved being around it all.  It's so exciting to me that every country gets to represent itself at the Olympics, and it was especially exciting to us that Canada got to represent itself in hosting them this year.  We are proud of our homeland! We went to a medal ceremony and walked around downtown Vancouver.....  

First off we had a little wait at the border...

   

 

And while we waited we looked at the fields that smelled like cows (which secretly we like because it reminds us of home and where we eventually want to be....on a farm)....

So we were happy while we waited because of the smell and because of the sunshine.

Once we got to Vancouver, first thing we did was walk to the cauldron!!

Then we walked around downtown.  There were performances, an ice rink, a huge zipline and lots of people!

We got tickets to the medal ceremony, which we found out when we got there that it was actually just a broadcast of the ceremony from Whistler! Stinky.  It was still so super cool though.  A Canadian won the gold medal for Men's Skeleton so that was neat to be there for that!

While we were there Cole got to sport his sweet Canadian mittens! While Kellen fashionably wore Gracie.  

We passed the Moulsen Canadian Hockey House on the way to our car.  O Canada! (Moulsen Canadian is a beer brand) But, they had a giant mapleleaf so we took a picture.

And before we went home we stopped at a gas station and stocked up!

Yay for Canada!