Granddaughter Day

Saturday was Granddaughter day.  We watched Taylor play basketball.  Taber beat Magrath 85 to 54 to become the tournament champs.

We also went to the U of L to see Mickey compete in a swim meet.

Langley was at the basketball game and Kennedy was at the pool so we saw half of our granddaughters Saturday.

For the past couple of weeks we have done the usual things:  apartment inspections, visiting teaching, and temple attendance.  Joan came in on Sunday and we did some genealogical research together.

After beautiful weather last week with temperatures as high as 20 degrees C, it rained all day Sunday and then started to snow in the evening and snow continued all night.  I had been hoping that we were finished with winter.

Monday evening we went to Hironaka's for Family Home Evening.  Bob and Kathy Bender were the speakers and they talked about serving at Palmyra during the Pageant last summer.  I knew the Benders from my Brooks days so we had a chat about some of the people we knew in Brooks.

Eightieth Birthday Party

Bob and Steve Denecky were in the same firm all of Bob's law career.  Bob retired, but Steve stayed on.  Steve's 80th birthday was last Thursday and Stringam Denecky held a surprise birthday party for him at noon at the office.  His daughter, Pam, and his sister caught a flight from Ontario; his sons came from Calgary and his brother from Lethbridge also came..  Even Vera (Steve's wife) didn't know that Pam was coming.  Several of the former partners were there as well.  Bob and I had been out inspecting missionary apartments and so were very late and missed seeing the surprise unfold.  We did get there in time to give our good wishes and to eat chinese food.

Bissett, Baines, Denecky, Pharo, Hironaka and Llewelyn

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