Canmore

We left Calgary in -3 degree weather and snow.  About ten minutes out of the city the snow stopped and the roads were dry.  About halfway to Canmore the ice and snow blew off the car.  It was above freezing when we arrived.

We met Edward, Jacqueline, Austen, Lincoln and Miranda at the condo they had rented.  It is a fancy place with room for seven of us.

Bob, Lincoln and I are staying in Canmore while everyone else is skiing at Lake Louise.  Lincoln isn't feeling well.

View from our window last night

Sun shining through the clouds

the clouds this morning have now disappeard

A Big Day for Keaton

Tuesday Bob did some home teaching. Wednesday I went visiting teaching and Bob finished his home teaching. Thursday we inspected apartments and later our home teachers visited.  Finally it was Friday and we drove to Calgary.  We went to East Side Marios for lunch with Nathan's family.  In the evening Tara's parents and a couple of her sisters and families arrived.  We stayed overnight at Jeremy and Julie's house.  They had gone to Florida.

Saturday was Keaton's baptism at ten in the morning.  Orson did the baptizing and Nathan did the confirmation.  Later we gathered at Nathan's and Tara served shredded beef and homemade buns (made by her mother) and vegetables, fruit, brownies and cookies.  Orson played the bagpipes.

Sunday we attended church in the Midnapore Ward and hung out at Nathan's the rest of the day.  Today Tara and boys left for Wetaskiwin and we are hanging out at Jeremy's until we leave for Canmore this afternoon.

Tara, Orson, Nath, Liam, Matt, Loch and Keaton

Keaton

Orson

Bob

Miranda

Edward and Austen

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