January 16, 2008

It started snowing around 4 this morning and didn't let up until suppertime. It was light, fluffy snow but the roads were messy with it. What can you expect in January in Edmonton???

January 12 (Out of Order)

Rob and Cindy hosted a farewell party for Mary and Greg. It was a lot of fun but we sure don't like to see them move away, especially now that Mary is pregnant. They have to live their lives though and take opportunities as they come. I made a scrapbook to present to them at the party. In looking through all my pictures, I realized we didn't have one of Lloyd and I with them since their wedding in 2000. So, in spite of bad lighting and shadows, we got Emily to take one of us. Greg's eyes aren't open so it's not a great picture of him, but it's good of Mary and Lloyd.

January 15, 2008

Mary relaxing in our funky new orange chair. Lloyd and I are really into retro and fell in love with this chair. Mary had to try it out when she came over. She and her husband, Greg, and daughter Layla, are moving to Osoyoos at the end of the month. We're going to miss them so much...and Mary is expecting their second baby in August. Looks like I'll be making a trip to BC this summer :)

January 14, 2008

Not the best picture of Eloise but the only one I got this evening when Lloyd and I were watching her and Charlie and Max while Sara drove Quincey to the airport. Elly is six weeks old now and is such a sweet little peanut. She still does most of her sleeping during the day, keeping Sara up late into the night. The kids love their little sister. Four-year old Charlie mothers her and takes her role of big sister very seriously. Three-year old Max is sometimes a little too enthusiastic in his hugs and kisses, but he loves her too.

January 13, 2008

I didn't take this picture, but I wanted to post it here in my picture-of-the-day blog anyway. This is one of the pictures taken by my daughter Sara for the engagement of my baby girl, Emily, and her fiance Allan. They're getting married on August 23 this year. Some of the 'old timers' at POTP may remember Emily from a couple years ago when she was living in Scotland and was an active participant in the Patch. She went by the username "Emtron". She and Allan have been together for 2 years now. She'll be 22 in May and he's a couple years older. He's our go-to guy for computer problems.

January 9 - 12, 2008

January 9, 2008

I hadn't done any pages on the scrapbook for Mary and Greg's farewell party on the 12th, so Emily came over to scrap with me and started me on a roll. By the 12th I had 18 pages done. In this picture, Emily is hard at work on one of the 3 layouts she completed that night.



January 10, 2008

Granddaughters Kenzie and Sydney came downstairs to visit me and wasted no time getting out the crayons and coloring books that I keep on hand for their visits.



January 11, 2008

Rob (DS#1) and Cindy had Anson's respite worker taking care of their kids this evening and needed to kill some time, so they came over and we had a nice game of Settlers of Catan. Rob won, but it was close. Fun.

The Next Few Days

January 5, 2008

Mum and I had fun trying to get some self-portraits of us together on her last day in Edmonton. She's 86 years old and has Alzheimer's so we don't know if we'll have another good Christmas with her. We take it one day at a time though. She thought I was foolish trying to take pictures of us myself. And then to put them on the computer !!! Technology baffles her.





January 6, 2008

Rob and Brooklyn had come to have dinner with us and Kenzie came down to play with Brooklyn. They both ended up playing with their Papa while he and Rob were watching the hockey game.













January 7, 2008.

I was working on a scrapbook for Mary and Greg and sorting through my stacks of pictures. Lloyd got interested in the pictures and spent quite a long time looking through them. He pretends not to be very interested in my scrapbooking, but always likes to see my pages when I'm done. I think it's the mess he doesn't like. He's promised to shave that beard by the end of February. I can hardly wait. It adds years to his handsome face.






January 8, 2008

I was baby-sitting for Kenzie this evening when I realized I hadn't taken my picture of the day. I have a feeling she'll be filling in for a lot of times when I forget. It's handy having her and her parents, brother and sister living upstairs...constant subjects for my camera. She liked our new orange leather retro chair.