Our tulips are up!

Aren't they gorgeous?

April Fools!!!

My tulips are still buried under this much snow!

However, there are signs of spring.

The geese are back,

(look closely or double click and you'll see the tongue of the goose on the left)

and the house sparrows are pairing up and in and out of our birdhouse.

Another 2 months should see our tulips in bloom!

Dad's 95th Birthday

We had a family supper at Irene's and then invited cousins and aunts for the evening.
We had scrapbooked an album for Dad of all the children and grandchildren's families
and he loved it.
He looked at it again and again.

There are more pictures on facebook.

Dad and his girls.

The joke of the weekend was this picture.
We bought tickets to a movie, got our popcorn and drinks,
then asked a lady to take our picture.
We didn't realize until we saw the picture later what the sign above our heads said!
This was the name of a movie which we didn't go to see.

Valentine's Day, 1972!

Here is a Valentine's Day card I made for Mal in 1972 .
We had been married just over a year.

This page couldn't quite fit into the scanner.
Double click to enlarge if you can't read it.

So does this look like me now?

Happy Valentine's Day Mal.
I love you still!
"Love is a flower that will never fade away!"

Irene's 65th Birthday

We went out for a nice lunch while the guys ate soup at home! :-)

Then we went for a pedicure.

Irene got a pretty flower put on her toe.
Then they were off to Mexico!

How blessed we are!
Our lives are so different than our Mom's.
I've been thinking about her: at our age she'd been in a wheelchair for years and didn't go out much, yet she always had a cheerful attitude.
We have so much to be thankful for!

Photo Contest

Woohoo, I won fifty bucks!
Our town had a Photo Contest in which they asked for pictures which they could use in the future for promotion purposes. It was supposed to depict why I like living here.

I got second prize.

This was my entry- a moose in front of our new school.

I don't think it was one of my best moose pictures, but I assume they chose it because it had to promote something in our town.

This was a picture that I took last summer of my sunflowers in the back yard.
It has nothing to do with the contest - just a picture I haven't posted before.

Before and After Pics

This is a "before" surgery picture.
His right eye is barely open.

Right eye done and looking better than the left now!

Left eye done. Now you can see the pupils of both eyes.
Quite a difference from the pre-op picture!

We saw Kaleb and Luke last weekend and enjoyed seeing little Luke crawl!

I took pictures from the car as we were travelling as I often do,
but because we're moving I end up deleting most.
I tried a faster shutter speed on my new camera
and thought this fence came out pretty clear.

Happy Birthday Magan!

Doesn't she look cute?
This picture was taken in '94 at Jon's church grad party.

Magan was in Grade 11. Were you 16 or 17 Magan?

Anyway, hope you have a great day today!