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The ONLY playlist you’re allowed to play is Taylor Swift

By Dad on Feb 22, 2015 in California, Signs You're Raising Girls | 0 comments

For 800km, just Taylor. Not that her music is bad… (oh and when you’re 600km into the drive they then make their own lyrics to the songs)

Day 2 – Terre Haute, IN to Claremore, OK

By Dad on Feb 21, 2015 in California | 0 comments

They were right – we woke to 4″ of snow and -9C, the worst part being the slide outs had to be cleaned before we could move out. Not an easy task. The roads were miserable and unfortunately, not everyone respected the driving conditions. We saw a fair number of cars and transports in the ditches, some even flipped (we saw an upside down car). In fact at...

The wonders of the boys bathroom

By Dad on Feb 20, 2015 in Samantha (aka Hula Hoop) | 1 comment

Sam was very curious when I took her and Tammy to the bathroom before bed, she noted we had so many “sinks” on the walls (urinals). She couldn’t stop talking about them.

Day 1 – London, ON to Terre Haute, IN

By Dad on Feb 20, 2015 in California | 0 comments

We left London on the coldest day of the year. The beetle showed -30C on the temperature gauge, obviously much colder with windchill. It seemed like the trailer didn’t like moving in this cold weather, it took dad 2hrs to just hook up the trailer the night before. We had to drive long enough to get below the frost line, or more specific a campground open this...

Learning to ski (and how to get REALLY cold)

By Dad on Feb 14, 2015 in General, Hailey, Kaatje, Kaelyn | 0 comments

On Feb 14 we booked a ‘birthday ski party’ so the oldest 3 Kempe girls with the oldes 3 Redekop boys could learn how to ski. As you can see they were pretty excited and had a great time. The temperature was -20C with windchill and the parents braved the weather with the kids the whole time. As you can see by the end everyone was pretty frozen....

Missing Daddy

By Michelle Kempe on Jan 9, 2015 in Hailey, Kaatje, Kaelyn, Samantha (aka Hula Hoop) | 0 comments

With Daddy away in Alberta- the girls took sometime to make a video to let him know they were thinking about him and missing him.

Feeling Appreciated

By Michelle Kempe on Jan 8, 2015 in General | 0 comments

2015 has been an interesting year so far. Someone has been sick everyday. The upside- everyone always feels loved while being waited on hand and foot. You really see how much someone cares when they are on their hands and knees cleaning the horrid mess you left when you missed the bowl. And now I feel loved and appreciated. Not a bad start.