Beautiful Day Over the Pass

Vacation at Echo Lake

Along with Edward's family and Mickey we spent some time at Echo Lake staying at the Jeremy Baines family cabin.

The weather wasn't the best but was quite nice for a few hours in the middle of the day.  It was cold in the morning and in the late afternoon it became windy and cloudy.

I spent a lot of time in the cabin reading.

As Bob went walking he checked out the livestock.

On Thursday afternoon we went into Big Fork and Kalispell to do a bit of shopping.  The week passed quickly.

Long Time - No Write

I can't believe it is August already.  My poinsettia still has blossoms. 

June and July were fairly quiet.

On June 11th  Bob started serving in the Temple each Saturday.

We went up to Calgary for Lochlan and Keaton's piano recital.  They only had started lessons a few months before and were very impressive.

We went to our final Family Home Evening before September.

Erica came and spent a day with us.  We went out to dinner.  The plan was to go to O'Sho, but they were closed for renovations, so we had to go elsewhere.

On the 17 July we attended church in Taber as Carter was ordained to the priesthood that day.  Darryl and Sue-anne had a barbeque in their wonderful back yard.

We attended the Stringam barbeque on the 21st July.  There weren't many people that we knew.

From July 23rd to July 27th we stayed in Calgary with Orson and Liam as their parents were on vacation.  Jeremy, Julie, Jackson and Mickey visited with us while we were there.   Bob dropped the boys off at the airport on Wednesday so they could go with the pipeband to Maxville.

We got home in time to spend some time with Sue-anne.  She was waiting for her car to be repaired and she had a long wait.  In fact, she had to leave it overnight and come back the next day.

On Monday the 1st, Edward, Jacqueline , Lincoln and Miranda came for the day.  Sheri and Joan joined us for lunch and a visit.  Miranda and Lincoln stayed for the rest of the week.  Miranda went to climbing camp and Lincoln to basketball.  

Margaret and Tom arrived on Wednesday.  Tom went fishing Thursday, Friday and Saturday while the rest of us just relaxed and visited.  Sue-anne, Courtney and Taylor dropped in Friday afternoon on the way to Edmonton.  Courtney had got engaged the day before.  We went to O'Sho on Friday evening.  Edward, Jacqueline, and Austen came Saturday.  They took Miranda and Lincoln home that evening.

After church and dinner on Sunday we went to Cardston and drove by the house where the Baines had lived and looked around the town.  We went to the cemetery to check out Bob's parents headstone.

Margaret and Tom left on Monday morning to go to Edmonton to visit Uncle Doug.

The weather has been weird this summer -  sometimes very hot and then cloudy with rain.  Some places have had hail, but we have been lucky.

A Great Week

Darwin and his family arrived on Wednesday about supper time.  We were so happy to see them.

Thursday Sue-anne came to visit and in the evening Courtney and Carter came for supper.

Friday Darwin's family and Bob and I went bowling in the afternoon and in the evening we went to Sue-anne and Darryl's house.  The girls had gone to Edmonton, so Sue-anne, Darryl and Carter were the only ones home.  We sat on their back yard patio and enjoyed the evening.

Saturday my favorite sons all were at Stafford lake with family members.  Edward brought his boat and there was skiing, boarding and tubing with only a lunch break.

Keaton, Jacqueline, Tara Chloe and Lincoln

Nathan and Orson

Owen Enjoyed the Water

Nathan Skiied

Amber

Nathan, Darwin, Tara and Amber

Nathan and family left because they were going to a Crawford family event.  The rest of us came back about 4:00 p.m. and had pizza, watched the hockey game and had wings.  Sue-anne and Erica joined us for the evening.

The time went very quickly and this morning Darwin and family left to return to Lehi.  Caden has "High Adventure"  first thing in the morning.

Owen

Chloe

Caden

Darwin

Long Week-end etc.

Justin Maynes was married to Jordyn on Saturday.  We attended the family dinner and visited with Joan and her family.  It was a rainy day.

Nathan and family arrived after the reception and spent a couple of days with us.  We attended church on Sunday and Sue-anne and Carter came in the evening.

Nathan and family entered a race at Indian Battle Park on Monday morning.  All but the two youngest did 5k .  Bob ran with Lochlan in the 1K.

Nathan and Tara left in the afternoon.  We went to Family Home Evening later.  We did some home teaching and visiting teaching during the week or so, otherwise it was quiet.

Today Bob walked over to check out the progress on the Henderson lake pool.  It is coming along.

Home in Lethbrige

We left Dublin on the 2nd of May.  Our plane was several hours late leaving and we barely made our connection in Toronto, but it all worked out and Nathan met us at the airport and we stayed in Calgary over night.

We drove home the next day.  Our crabapple tree had blossomed while we were away and all the flowers had blown off the tree and were lining our driveway.

Now we are nearly over our jet lag, I think.  I went to "Time Out For Woman" last weekend and Bob went to Waterton on Saturday and spent the day with Edward's family.

We went to the Mosers for Mothers Day dinner on Sunday.

On Wednesday we went to the temple.  Sue-anne dropped in for a visit. Our home teachers came that evening.

Today Joan came for a visit.

Return to Dublin

Glendalough is a beautiful setting which has ruins of seven churches.

It was back to Dublin where we started our tour.  We stopped at Trinity College and visited their library and the Book of Kells.  The library was given the legal rights to a free volume of every book published in Britain and Ireland.  The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages given to Trinity College in the 1660’s.  It is written in Latin and contains the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.  This book was probably made close to the year 800.

That night  we went to O'Connells Restaurant for a farewell dinner.  The owner demonstrated making Irish Soda Bread (which had been served every morning for breakfast) and while we ate we were serenaded by a couple of singers singing Irish Songs as well as some such songs as "Alberta Bound".