Monday, 29 February 2016

Progress on our Cabin

 

 

Progress is being made at the cabin.

 

 



We now have walls!! Yeah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carrying away all the wallboard garbage!

 

 

Wow, that looks like difficult work!

I'm so glad we hired experienced men to do the high stuff!!

 

 

 

It seems like so much equipment, I'm glad they know what they are doing!

 

 

 

 

 

Nice shot of the upstairs before the railings.

 

 

 

 

 

Balance is everything on those high ladders!

 

 

 

 

The fireplace just waiting for the stone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad reviewing his supplies with the electrician, Kirk.

 

 

The flooring is here and ready to be put in!!

 

 

 

We are so pleased with the railings!

Wow, it's really starting to come together!!

 

Happy Get-Together's

We had a fun time celebrating Cam and D's new home!!

We had a family dinner, Jon and Tiff came up and we all shared in some good food and visiting!

 

The cousins enjoyed being together, and playing around in Brooke and McKinley's new bedroom.

 

 

 

Mark was loving the cuddles in their bonus room with sweet huggable McKinley!

 

D spent hours in their garage sanding off the finish on her kitchen table and then refinished it to perfection!! Wow, what energy and talent!

In early December, Lindsay and D decided to make 'gingerbread ' houses as a fun activity for Family Home Evening. Brooke it looks like Grandpa is going to snatch those any minute!!

 

Mckinley was very careful to put her candies in the right order on her house.

What a nice pattern.

 

 

Brynn and Cam would put one on the house and one in the mouth!

Brynn was loving all the pretty candy!!

 

 

 

Ivy had a lot of help from mom and dad. Her's is lovely!!

The red gummies were her favorite!

 

 

Colby had fun helping everyone and especially loved the icing!

 

 

 

 

They all turned out magnificent, and they were just too beautiful to eat!

 

 

We really wished that Ava, Joshie and Elena could have been up helping us make the gingerbread houses, but they were having fun at home as Elena turned one November 20th!

 

 

What a cute picture with Santa!!

Wow, Elena is looking very serious, not sure she really loves Santa yet!

 

 

 

 

A shy Brooke with Olaf.

Winter and Christmas are coming!!

 

Doug had a wonderful Reunion with his growing up 'buddies' at the Red Deer Stake Conference in December.

 

Elder Randy Bennett of the Seventy with his wife, Shelly. President Rob Burnham of the Red Deer Stake and his wife, Collette. Doug and I representing the Edmonton Alberta Temple. And Bob and Fran Van Bruggen, who just just finished serving as Mission President in Russia. We enjoyed our visit! They've grown into wonderful men who love and serve the Lord!

 

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Summer End and Birthdays

 

We always know that summer has come to an end when school starts.

Ava is starting her first day of Grade 1...she really looks brave and very grown up!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joshie celebrated his 4th birthday on September 2nd. He was so happy with his 'John Deer' tractor cake that his mommy made him.

 

Wow!! What a great cake!!

 

Happy 4th Birthday, Joshie!!

 

 

 

Elena loved the cake as well, she is already 9 months, she is growing up so fast and sooo cute!!

 

 

The end of summer brings Taber corn, and we had lots to share with Mark, his roommate Rodney, Grandma, and Linds, James and Ivy...it was so delicious!!

 

 

Mark's birthday was September 13. Lindsay made him a "Cookie Monster" cake. It was so cute and delicious!

 

 

 

Mark was hoping to blow out all those candles in one breath, except maybe one.

 

 

 

Markie loves any hugs he can get from Ivy and this seemed to be his lucky birthday...she just cuddled and cuddled!!

 

Brookie is now going into Grade Grade 2, she starts school tomorrow.

Grandpa wanted to give her a 'good luck' hug!!

She is sure reading a lot now!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cam and D spent their 10th Anniversary camping and fishing the Islands of British Colombia.

 

They brought salmon and crab back with them and we had a feast on Sunday!

The kids had fun getting the crab meat out of the crab!

Grandma couldn't eat any kind of fish, but she came to visit and brought a TV dinner to eat... we love her!!

 

 

 

 

Brynnlee especially loved it!

 

 

 

 

 

Colby got his first cool hair cut, he is sure a 'ladies man' with that smile and new hair cut!!

 

He is now walking and starts Nursery on Sunday...yippee!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brooke and Mckinley are sure becoming best friends. They really miss each other when they are away from each other for very long!

This reunion was so cute!!

 

 

The cabin is still making progress...

The labourers, Lindsay and James, putting the Ty-Vek on.

We were really glad they are brave and can handle heights, luckily they were harnessed in!

 

 

 

 

 

 

It just kept getting higher and harder, but they just kept going.

The joys of being young and adventurous!!

Thank you!!

 

So we finished the Ty-Vek and next step was insulating, so dad put the order in and it came.

He was a little more than overwhelmed when twice the amount we needed was dropped off!


The boys, Jon, Cam, Mark and James joined us for an insulation 'party' this last Saturday.


What fun!!

 

 






Jon and James were high in the rafters...

 



And Mark was 'filling to the ceiling'.

They sure worked hard!



 


It was a massive project that kept us busy all day!! We calculated we put in over 60 hours of labour that day...we will remember this!!

 

Halloween Memories 2015

Such fun Halloween memories of our grandkids!

 

Brooke dressed up like a doctor!

 

 

 

Ava was a Halloween Witch!

 

 

McKinley was a hungry giraffe!

 

 

Joshie was the cutest scary gentleman on the street!

 

 

Brynnlee was our little monkey!

 

 

Our 'best friend forever' puppy Colby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Ivy was our little rock star!!

 

 

What a fun Halloween!!