We had Company

My visiting teachers came for a visit on Wednesday.  Courtney came on Thursday.  Friday Claire and I went out to lunch and on Saturday my brothers and sisters along with their spouses came to Lethbridge.

We also managed to fit in home teaching and visiting teaching last week.

Anne, Donald, Joan and Ross

Did the Birds Go South This Winter?

If they did go south the ducks and geese are back.

Henderson Lake - 7th February

17th February

Family Day Today

Three quick weeks have passed since the last post.

A dental appointment, visiting teaching, apartment inspections each week, apartment viewings, apartment renting and quilting at Relief Society are some of the exciting things that have kept us busy.

We did go to Taylor's basketball game at Winston Churchill.  Taylor made at least two three pointers.

Taylor is #5

Guarding 2 players

On Friday we went to Calgary for Valentines day.  Nathan's house was decorated with red balloons; the boys had valentine cards for us and roses.  Tara cooked up delicious meals.  Edward, Jacqueline, Austen, Lincoln and Miranda visited after their two days of Skiing at Lake Louise.

Granny and the Baines Boys

Today we went our for lunch with Jeremy's family (except for Kennedy) and Sue-anne's family and enjoyed a great Family Day visit.

Jeremy, Julie, Mickey and Jackson

January Temperature Swings

At the beginning of January we had  cold, snow and a thick coat of ice on our street.  It got down below -20 degrees C (-4 F).  A couple of weeks ago the temperature went up above freezing and the wind began to howl.  The snow melted and even the ice on our street is gone.  Yesterday was 19 degrees C (67 F) and it was a beautiful summery day.  Today was only about 14 degrees C.

We have done our usual missionary housing duties - apartments closed, new apartments arranged for, apartment inspections, new furnishings for apartments purchased and a missionary transfer day.

We had family home evening at our home last Monday.  We attended the J. Reuben Clark Law broadcast last Friday.  We went to the temple on Saturday.  I went out to lunch with a group of friends yesterday.

Busy, busy and no end in sight.

2015 Already

We went to Taber on New Years Day.  Some of the family skated on the Moser rink and then we ate and played games.  Edward, Jackqueline, Lincoln and Miranda went back to Calgary that evening.

On Friday evening Nathan, Tara and boys arrived.  They had to drive through a blizzard to get here but made it safely.

Nathan's family went bowling in the afternoon and after supper traveled back to Calgary.

Lochlan Bowling

New Years Eve

On Tuesday evening Edward and family arrived in Lethbridge.  We had a quiet New Year's Eve.  Edward and Jacqueline went visiting friends in the afternoon.  Erica, Bentley and Austen left after supper to go to parties in Calgary.  Jacqueline and Lincoln went to a movie in the evening.

Back Home in Lethbridge

The days passed quickly while we were in Lehi..  It snowed last night and the roads were covered with snow this morning when Darwin drove us to the airport.

We got to Great Falls and when we looked for our car it was buried in snow.

Under the snow the windows were covered with a thick coat of ice.  The windows and the trunk were frozen shut.  It took a while to dig out and scrape the windows before we were on the I15 north to Lethbridge.  There was blowing snow and at times poor visibility, but the roads weren't too bad.  We stopped in Shelby and at the border and were home by suppertime.  My poinsettia's leaves were just about dead.  I don't know if they will come back.