Day Before

Darwin, Amber, Caden, Chloe and Owen arrived Thursday evening.

On Friday Bob, Darwin, Amber, Chloe, Caden, Jeremy, Julie and Kennedy went to Taber to help the Mosers set up for the wedding reception.

End of April - Tulips in the Snow

When will spring arrive?  

Liam's last composition was about this subject:  https://soundcloud.com/snowinsummer/dance

 

 

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky as we didn't get snow like April 1967.  See Mark Campbell's blog:  https://greetergrammer1.wordpress.com/  (1967 revisited)

Since we've returned from Texas life has gone on as usual.  Bob's birthday was celebrated quietly.  We have had visits to the dentist.  We managed one visit to the Temple and Bob did his usual Temple shifts on Saturdays. We did home teaching and visiting teaching and I went to a Relief Society meeting. We went to Family Home Evening at the Petersons.

Our income tax is filed for another year.

Jeremy and family visited the Saturday of Easter week-end.  In the evening  we went to O'Sho with Jeremy & family and the Mosers.  On Easter Sunday we went to Taber for supper.

Our grandson, Austen, finished his year at U.of L. and went back to Calgary for the summer.

 

Should have stayed in Texas

We were in Galveston last Monday and it was a beautiful day - warm, sunny, no wind - and we returned to Lethbridge on Tuesday.  This morning we woke up to snow again.

We left Calgary on March 23 along with Nathan and family.  We spent a couple of days in Galveston staying in a condo that belonged to one of Nathan's friends.

While in Galveston we visited Moody Gardens.  They were doing renovations so some of the sights were closed, but on the other hand we didn't have to pay to see the parts that were open.

We also visited "The Bishop's Palace"  It was originally the home of the Gresham family.  Mr Gresham was a lawyer and I wondered why some Alberta lawyers didn't live in homes like this.  When Mr. Gresham died the house was sold to the Catholic Church as a home for the bishop.  There was a big Catholic church across the street from the home.

Beautiful Hardwood Floors

The two windows on the left are original.  The one on the right is a replacement by the Catholic Church.

 

 

Saturday at noon we got on the cruise ship "Freedom".

Galveston from the ship

Lochlan

Keaton

Liam

Matt and Keaton

We spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday at sea.

Tuesday morning we stopped at a harbour in Jamaica.  We didn't plan on getting off, but Liam wanted to explore, so everyone except me went into the city.

On Wednesday we were at the beautiful Cayman Islands.  We went into Georgetown and met one of Nathan's  friends.  She and her husband took us on a fishing boat out to the Stringray sandbar where you could get in the water and pet the stingrays.  We then went for a picnic on Starfish Point.  On the way back to Georgetown we stopped at 7 mile beach.

Georgetown

Downtown Georgetown

Petting a Stringray

Starfish Point

Seven Mile Beach

 The next stop was Cozumel.  All but me rushed off the ship and caught a taxi to the ferry which took them to the mainland of Mexico where they toured the ruins at Tulum with Helaman from Helaman Tours.  I understand it was a hot, humid day.

After one more day at sea we were back in Galveston.  Nathan and family went to visit former Calgarians and watched conference with them, while Bob and I walked to a nearby chapel to watch.

Monday after lunch we drove to Huston and caught our flight back to Calgary.  All too soon the vacation had ended.

March Already but still Winter

On the 2nd March Bob and Austen attended the dinner to meet the candidates running for the Conservative party leadership.

Jacqueline and Erica went to Ontario for Erica to have Med School Interviews.  While they were away Edward and Miranda came for a visit and spent Saturday evening and Sunday with us.  We went out to O'Shos for supper on Saturday.

Miranda, Edward and Austen

The forecast is for above freezing weather starting Monday, so I am hoping that spring is coming. It is -11 degrees C today and more snow is forecast for later this afternoon.

January and February 2017

The year so far has been cold and snowy except for a week or so.  We did Dr. and Dentist appointments, home teaching and visiting teaching, two family home evenings and Bob served in the Temple Saturdays starting the 21st January.

7th January 2017

On January 15th we went to church in Stirling because Taylor Maynes was speaking before leaving for her mission in Mexico.

The High Priests had a Social at the Church on the 28th January.

We went to two funerals in February.  Vivian Bissett's was on February 8th and Melba Birck's was on the 20th February.

I went to a RS social on the 16th February.

Nathan and family, including Orson who was home from Waterloo for reading week, visited us on Family day week-end.  After church on Sunday Jeremy, Julie and Mickey came for a while before we all went for supper in Taber with the Mosers.

Entertainment by Liam

Keaton's turn

Keaton & Matthias

Devin, Courtney, Langley, Mickey and Liam

Jeremy and Darryl

On the 21st February we attended the Temple with Courtney and Devin.  Back in Lethbridge we went out for supper at Moxies.

The Last Week of 2016

On Tuesday we had a short visit from Sue-anne and family who were on the way home from Waterton.

On Wednesday Bob finished shoveling the driveway and some of the road in front of our driveway.  It took two tries but he was able to get out of the driveway.  Edward and family arrived later in the evening.

Thursday morning we went with Edward to visit Sue-anne and family.  That evening Bob, Jacqueline, Bentley and Miranda went to the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden to see the winter light show which was quite spectacular.

Friday in the early afternoon Edward and family departed for Calgary.

Bentley, Miranda, Jacqueline

Miranda

Happy New Year!

Home Again

We spent a couple of hours at Nathan's on boxing day afternoon and then headed home.  It was not an enjoyable drive.  While it had quit snowing, the wind was blowing and there was blowing snow all across the highway making it hard to see.  We saw a couple of cars in the ditch and evidence that there had been others.

As we came off the Crowsnest trail we encountered a drifted in road all around the lake.  We got stuck in our driveway and out on the road in front of our driveway.  Luckily some of our ward members came by and pushed us into the driveway.

The picture doesn't look like there was much snow, but looks are deceiving.