Olympic Celebration

We had the family together for an Olympic Windup. We cheered the hockey team on to win an exciting game for gold, enjoyed dinner together then watched the very extraordinary closing ceremony. What a wonderful seventeen days this has been!

Breaking news

Barbara has won the provincial senior women's curling title and is off to represent Alberta in the national competition in Ottawa in March. We are very proud and happy that she has become successful in realizing her dream.

SKATING

Tuesdays

Tuesdays James and Elijah vist us. Sometimes we play indoors, sometimes we play outdoors, sometimes we go swimming and sometimes we go skating. We always have a lot of fun

Etiquette Class

Ryan has just completed an etiquette class at St Gerard school. I was privileged to attend the graduation celebration and to discover how much he had learned about introductions, table settings, table manners and common courtesy.

Family Day

The Lakehouse was the venue for the Family Day holiday this year. The Taits , the Youngs, followed by Bean and JR and later Carmen and Mary Wyatt and their children enjoyed some skiing, skating, hotpooling and lots of comraderie. We missed Graham who stayed in the city to finish a project and Jim who was surfing in Tofino and of course we always miss the Norgards and M'akls!

Valentine's Day

My special valentine treated me to delightful three day ski trip into, around, and out from the Shadow Lake Lodge, a lovely set of log buildings begun in 1928 The 14.5 Km was more challenging than it was when we did it ten years ago. I wonder why? We had perfect "Alberta Blue" days (i.e. wax good at -2 to -7 which is almost always what ski days are here ), beautiful scenery, gourmet food, and interesting new friends. A most memorable excursion!

Hoarfrost

We had several days when moisture hung in the air and then settled everywhere to produce a wonderland of hoarfrost covered trees.

Green Day

ensemble

Jingle Bells

Zeppelin

Solstice Entertainment

Solstice entertainment included Lee Ann doing her Dolly Parton impersonation, Amanda doing a Led Zeppelin number, Brennan doing his rendition of Jingle Bells, an accordian-guitar-comb ensemble and an appearance of the rock band Green Day.As evidenced by the video clips, much hilarity accompanied the entertainment