2nd Dec - Jeremy's Birthday

Jeremy is in either Korea or Japan so I hope he has a great birthday there.  Wish we could join him.

It has been a bit busier these last two weeks.  We had Family Home Evening at our house on the 18th November.  We had our institute class on the 21st.

On Friday the 22nd we drove to Calgary and stayed with Jeremy's family while Julie and Jeremy were in Palm Springs.  We (Bob mostly) chauffeured Mickey and Jackson; we visited at Nathan's and on Sunday we attended the Cranston Ward where Miranda was participating in the Primary Sacrament Meeting Presentation.  We then had dinner at Edward's house and after dropping Mickey and Jackson off at home we left for Lethbridge.  The sunset was beautiful as we left Calgary.

Monday was a quiet day.  Tuesday I had visiting teachers and we had home teachers.  Wednesday I went visiting teaching and spent the evening at Janet Jubber's home.  Thursday was institute again.  Friday was our Ward Christmas party.

We had great weather last week, but today it started to snow and the temperature started to drop.  There is a blizzard warning, but so far just snow.

Dreary Two Weeks

- Not much going on the 4th & 5th.
- On Thursday the 6th we went to the institute class we have been assigned to teach.
- On Friday, I was hit with one of the terrible colds that I get.  I hadn't had one since we came home from Nova Scotia.  Bob went to the High Priests' party in the evening, but I stayed in bed.
- Saturday morning Bob picked up Langley from basketball and she was here for a bit before going to the movie.  I stayed in bed and didn't see her.
-  Sunday and Monday I still stayed at home.
-  Tuesday I went out for the first time, but still wasn't doing well, so Wednesday morning when Bob went to help at the soup kitchen I stayed home.
-  Thursday morning Mary and Jim dropped in on their way to Winnipeg from Bellvue.  We had our institute class in the evening.
- Friday was a quiet day.
- Saturday we went to Brooks for our quarterly sibling get together.  The roads were bad and we didn't have a great drive, but "neither snow nor rain nor wind" will keep us from gathering together, although Joan didn't make it. The rest of us had an enjoyable dinner and visit.  We stayed overnight and came back this morning in time for church.  The roads had been plowed and sanded and after Taber were mostly clear.  It was a sunny day, but cold.

Visitors During Halloween Week

On the 30th  the ladies from club were here, Thursday Carter and Sue-anne dropped in after a dentist appointment and in the evening 25 "trick or treaters"  stopped by and on Saturday some visitors from the Jehovah's Witness came by to tell us about the resurrection before we were even dressed.

We were also visited by snow, wind, leaves blown into our driveway, rain and today snow again.

Club

Snow Yesterday

Another week has gone by.  We had a lot of lovely warm weather.  Wednesday we went to the Temple.  In the evening I did some visiting teaching.

Thursday morning Sue-anne and Carter came by.  Carter had been  to the dentist and they were supposed to do some shopping and stay until Carter's football game in the evening.  Unfortunately Carter was sick and they went back to Taber. Our home teachers visited us in the evening.

Friday the missionaries came for supper. 

Saturday was a good day.  Carter came to visit in the morning and Bob picked up Langley at 11:30 after a basketball clinic at Gilbert Patterson School.  Langley and I worked on her family history booklet for Young Womens.  After Sue-anne picked up Carter and Langley I watched Skate Canada and then went to Stake Conference.

Carter enjoyed spending time up on the closet while his mother wasn't here.

Sunday was stake conference.  Bob had to be there at 9:00 a.m. so I went early as well.  Just as we were leaving the house it started to rain and by the time the session was over it was snowing.  The snow stopped sometime during the night and it is still on the ground because of the freezing temperature.

Autumn in Lethbridge

We had a fairly quiet week after everyone left on Monday.  We did go out to the genealogical meeting on Thursday evening.  On Friday my sister came in for a visit.  Today Ross and Paulette invited us out to breakfast at the Firestone.  They were coming back from spending Thanksgiving on Vancouver Island and stayed at the Coast Hotel here in Lethbridge.  They can no longer stay with us because Ross cannot get up and down stairs and needs a handicapped shower.

We have had rainy weather and sunny skies - cool weather and warm weather - along with some wind.  Today is a warm day.

It will soon be time to rake the leaves.

Thanksgiving Weekend 2013

After arriving home last Tuesday we had Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to get ready for Thanksgiving.  Nathan and family arrived late Friday evening.  We had Nathan, Edward and Sue-anne and families here for Saturday supper. Courtney was back from Edmonton for the week-end.  Instead of turkey, we had roast beef to the disappointment of some of the family but we did have pumpkin pie..

Monday Jeremy and family arrived.  We went out for lunch at Dono's (a Japanese restaurant) with Jeremy & Nathan's families and then to Dairy Queen for ice cream.

We have seen all our children and nineteen of our twenty grandchildren in the last eight days.  It was wonderful to spend time with them all.

Busy Baines Household

We spent all last week with Darwin, Amber and family.  Everyone was busy, busy:  work, ball room dancing, dancing lessons, piano lessons, Relief Society, etc.

All three children had parts on the Primary Presentation and Caden and Chloe were in a piano recital.

Darwin and Bob went out canvassing for the Boy Scouts.

Bob and I went to the Nova Scotia Mission reunion and enjoyed seeing some of the Senior Couples that we knew and many of the young Elders and Sisters.

The Foley's were the Office Couple most of the time we were in Nova Scotia

Snow on the Mountains showing above the Clouds

The week went by quickly and Monday morning we left about 9:00 a.m. after the rush hour traffic and drove to Helena that day.  The trees were starting to change colour.

This morning we drove home from Helena.  Between Helen and Great Falls there were many trees that had turned yellow and with the sun shining on them they made a beautiful scene.

We arrived home about 1:30 p.m. and received good news in that the cat scan that Bob had the day we left Lethbridge showed there was  no sign of a stroke.