Day 350...Sunday Dec 20

James Titus (Ty) turned one year old today. We celebrated together at his house.

Day 257 - Sunday, September 27

28 years ago today, our lives were blessed by the birth of our 2nd son...Michael Cameron. (To read my tribute to him, go to this link) The family gathered at Mike and Victoria's home to honor him and to celebrate.

Of course, some of my favorite subjects for photos are my grandbabies....

James Titus (aka Ty) is the epitome of cute little boy baby:

These are Victoria's 4 yr old twin brothers....Luke on the left and Joshua on the right. They are typical little boys - delightful.

My oldest grandbaby is not much of a baby anymore....she is growing up so fast - becoming prettier every day, it seems....

Elizabeth - whose newest nickname, bestowed by Seth, is "Bif" - makes a beautiful subject for photos:

Supper time, and some of the kids got their 'own' table.....Kaden was delighted to eat with his older cousins.

Mmmm.....Spaghetti and meat sauce.

Michael wisely removed Kaden's clothing before giving him a plate of spaghetti.

Kaden knows how to 'say cheese' for the camera - whether you ask him to or not.

Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday dear Michael....Happy Birthday to you......

Many of the gifts were wrapped in paper adorned with Santas, reigndeer, and SNOWFLAKES. We warned Victoria that if it snows in the next few days - we're blaming HER!

This could be the last photo of Ava inutero.....

I'm sure Victoria hopes so.

Day 249 - Saturday, September 19

The organisation Vinj works for, "The Open Door", is an emergency shelter for youth at risk. They held their annual fund raiser this morning - the main event being a 'bed race'.

Vinjelu and Kathryn had been asked to perform on the stage during the day. I went along to look after the kids while they were singing. There was a pretty good sized crowd - two bleachers full of people - but the bleachers were a rather long way off, so I cannot judge how the crowd responded to the music.

Several people (mostly youth) came and expressed their enthusiasm to Vinj and Kath, though.

Taliah was a good little princess....sleeping through most of the afternoon....







Seth was also well behaved. He was quite fascinated with this clown.....

When his mom and dad were singing, Seth was singing, dancing, and clapping in his seat.....

Their performance over, Vinj and Kath went to Wetaskiwin where they attended a meeting for church before the actual church service. I brought Seth home with me.....to Melanie's birthday party.

The little girls introduced Seth to their favorite thing about being at Auntie Mel's....kittens!

Later on, the girls enjoyed Uncle Ken's hot tub.....

.....while Titus beat out a rhythm on the fire pit....

Oh yeah....the day was meant to honor Melanie - who was turning 48.

After birthday cake, we went out to sit around the fire pit.

Vinj and Kath arrived about 11:00 - just as I was ready to go home to bed.

I do not know what time they called it a night, but they stayed overnight in my guest room. Daniel also stayed here - in the trailer.

Day 245 - Tuesday, Sept. 15

Victoria needed to go to a doctor's appointment without Kaden this morning, so I drove to Edmonton to spend the day with them.

While Victoria was gone, Kaden and I cuddled in the big chair and read books. And I mean LOTS of books! We'd no sooner finish with one book, and he'd jump down and go get another.

I enjoyed some one on one time with this sweet boy and then had a nice time with my daughter, helping her to sort hand me down clothing she'd been given for Ava.

Kaden loves his 'puppy'.....sometimes more than Curly can appreciate.....

Later, when Tor and I were visiting, Kaden disappeared for awhile. He returned, 'pumping iron'.

Soon, he turned his barbell into a microphone and started to sing 'into' it. LOL

I returned home to find a door hung on the root cellar entry.

Dan was legitimately proud of himself.....he had never built a door frame before - never hung a door.

However, I think this door is nicer than the door we have for the garage - I'd like him to put this nice new door on the garage and put the old, used door on the root cellar.

A project for another day, I guess.

After supper, I was trying to load photos to my facebook albums (as I'd been trying to do for a couple days) I finally got a little frustrated and called Rob to see if I could come to his house to do it. I transferred my photos to a couple flash discs and off I went....

The girls were in bed when I got there - probably asleep, so I did not disturb them. Instead, I visited Lana and Titus while Rob watched the end of his hockey game on the computer.

Jim called while I was waiting to use the computer. After chatting with me, he asked for Rob....

Even with their high speed internet, the photos took a long time to load. At least, after waiting for half and hour, for each large file to load, the computer didn't tell me the upload had been unsuccessful. And, while waiting for the uploads, Rob, Lana, and I had a nice visit.

Day 223 - Thursday, August 13

We slept quite late this morning....maybe we're starting to 'catch up' from lack of sleep over the weekend.

We had an appointment in Wetaskiwin this morning - well, actually closer to this afternoon....it was at 11:30 a.m about the time the first leg of Daniel's trip back to the States was beginning.

After our appointment, we went to Rob and Lana's for lunch.....Lana made a delicious quiche.

Emma and Sophia had dressed as 'samesies' today.....

Ty was happy for most of our visit.....until he decided HE wanted to eat, too.

He always sits in his high chair with his fat little toes pushing against the tray of his chair.....

so funny.

Just as we were finishing our supper, Andrew called to tell us Daniel was on face book and wanted to talk to us so we FINALLY got to chat with Dan.....we haven't heard from him since Sunday night - he was completely unaware that there had been a tsunami warning for the area he had been staying earlier this week. He will be back in the USA tomorrow night at 11:35 pm MST. It was good to chat with him.

Day 184 - Saturday, July 4

Potluck supper at church tonight.

Since sitting in a hard chair is VERY uncomfortable for Kath, Rob brought his big lawn chair for Kathryn to use during the service.

Titus sat with Papa while the ladies were setting out all the food.

Day 179 - Monday, June 29

Bible Study today.

Various other commitments kept our numbers down today - just Lana, Victoria, me.......

......and Robert?

Since Rob is on holidays this week, we invited him to join us (as long as Ty or Kaden didn't need him)



here, he's using his new iPod Touch to read the Bible......and looking after Ty, who is wearing a lovely crown made by his Dad.

A more 'traditional' Bible....but is he really with us? He looks like he's thinking about something else. Maybe this is where we were talking about the 'S' word.....(see the end of 1 Cor 6)....he kind of zoned out then. LOL

Day 178 - Sunday, June 28

I had supper tonight at Rob and Lana's.......since it is Sunday, it is 'family day' but Vinj and Kath were at Veteran Family Camp and Mike and Tor were unavailable so Andrew and I (Jim's at work) met at Rob and Lana's for our family day supper......chicken tacos. Mmmmmm.

Rob was entertaining the girls and Ty with silly noises.....I caught him!

Day 170 - Saturday, June 20

A beautiful, hot, sunny day..... I spent the day at the soccer field....All three girls had their windup tournaments this day.