New Year's Eve

Nathan, Tara, Orson, Liam, Keaton, Lochlan and Matthias arrived about 4:00 p.m.  We had Chinese Food and played monopoly and scrabble.  The two oldest males retired early.  Tara and I and the boys stayed up to ring in 2016.

2015 wasn't the greatest year and hopefully 2016 will be better.

2015 did end wonderfully well.  We spent time with all our children and families during December.  What could be better?

December 26 - 28

After breakfast on boxing day, Bob and I drove home to Lethbridge.  It was a beautiful, sunny day, but very cold.

Edward and family were a couple of hours behind us.  Sue-anne and family arrived later.  After supper, there were games to play.

In the evening Jeremy and Edward's families and Bob and I attended the New West Theatre to see "All Spruced Up".

Sunday we attended church, ate, napped and visited.

Edward's family left today to go to Mountain View.

Christmas at Jeremy and Julie's Home

White Christmas

We left Lethbridge this morning to spend Christmas in Calgary with Jeremy and Julie and family.

Another Year Almost Gone

Time has passed quickly since we returned from Utah.

We inspected apartments, arranged for a new apartment, got through transfer day and Bob spent much time emptying and  cleaning an apartment that is being closed out. 

We attended our Ward Party on the 11th - cooked potatoes for it.

On Saturday the 12th while Bob got furniture out of an apartment I served at the Nativity Display.  Over 400 nativity sets were displayed.

Later that day we drove to Calgary and went to a Christmas supper for the service missionaries.

We stayed with Nathan's family and went to Church in the Midnapore Ward and in the evening Edward picked us up and took us to the Stake Christmas Program.  Erica played the trumpet to accompany one of the numbers.

We drove home on Monday the 14th.  We got our home teaching and visiting teaching done.

I did my Christmas baking - fruit cake and butter tarts.

I attended the ward Relief Society Christmas program on Sunday evening.

Sue-anne and Carter came in on Monday for a visit.  Joan and Joral visited on Tuesday.  Bob and I went to the movie on Tuesday evening - James Bond.

Today was Sue-anne's birthday.  Her whole family came into Lethbridge and we had pizza for supper.

Utah Grandkids

We left Lethbridge Thursday morning and drove to Great Falls, had lunch at the airport and took a flight to Salt Lake.  Darwin met us at the airport and drove us to Lehi.  Everything went smoothly.

Amber bought a jigsaw puzzle to entertain us while she was at school.  We worked on it Thursday evening and finished it on Friday.  Chloe did a lot on it.

Today was Owen's baptism.  Taylor joined us from Provo early in the morning as the baptism was at 9:00 a.m.

In the afternoon we went to the BYU Junior Ballroom Dance Presentation to see Caden and Chloe dance.  It was a very professional program.  Amber drove Taylor back to Provo after the show.

After the Baptism

Cousins

After the Dance Presentation