It's Autumn

After church we left Lehi and drove north, stopping overnight in Dillon.  We got home Monday and attended our Family Home Evening.  We did Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching during the week.  Sue-anne and Carter dropped in on  Friday.

Friday evening Edward, Jacqueline, Lincoln, Miranda and Nathan arrived.  Saturday morning we went to Cardston and met Sue-anne, Jeremy and Joan and then did temple ordinances for Ross.  After the Temple we went to Dairy Queen.

We came back to Lethbridge and met Julie, McKinley, Austen, Lincoln and Miranda and then Edward, Jeremy and Nathan took us out to dinner to celebrate my upcoming birthday.  It was a good day.

Lehi Grandchildren

Grandparents day at River Rock School

Last Tuesday we left Austen alone in Lethbridge and we set out for Lehi.  We stayed overnight in Blackfoot, Idaho and on Wednesday morning drove to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  Later that afternoon we drove to Lehi.

Thursday evening Chloe invited me to attend Standards Night where we listened to Janice Kapp Perry talk and sang some of the songs she had written.

Friday morning we walked over to Owens school and spent some time in his classroom and ate lunch in the cafeteria with him. 

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Can It Really Be September?

On the Thursday after our return from Echo, I went up to Calgary.  I attended the Calgary Highland Games with Nathan and family and saw Orson and Liam in their last competition.  Keaton also competed in the chanter category.  It was a long day.  We left Nathan's house at 7:30 a.m. and arrived back at 6:00 p.m.

Liam on Drums

Orson on Pipes

Sunday after church we took Nathan and Orson to the airport for a flight to Ontario.  Orson will be attending the University of Waterloo taking Software engineering.  His dad went along to get him settled in residence.  I hope they are enjoying the 30 degree weather there (feels like 40 degrees apparently) - much different than the cool 19 degrees we are experiencing.

I drove back to Lethbridge late Sunday afternoon.  Unbeknownst to me Edward and family had been in Lethbridge most of the time I was away.  They came to get Austen settled in as he is living at our house now and attending the University of Lethbridge.

Everyone except Austen left either Saturday or Monday.

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.