April 4, 2017

Hello to all from sunny Alberta. The snow is finally leaving us and it's getting a bit warm outside. Our little creek that runs by our back porch is really full the kids love watching the water. So far we have kept them out of it. I can get a little deep some places where it runs over the banks. By now is down a lot and we can hear it running over the rocks we put down. March started right off with revival meetings. We had Maynard Koehn from Burns and Kelly Penner from Norquay. We had 4 open sermons and 6 council meetings and for the first time that I know of we didn't have any invitations. We finished with communion on Sunday the 12 in the evening.  One day in there we went to town for groceries and couple of days later to buy a bunk bed for Heidi and Nigel. Got them set up in Nigel's room. We sold the mattress that Heidi was sleeping on so now we have no guest bed. The baby's room with be in the office where Heidi was sleeping. If we had guests and need a mattress we have one in storage we can use. The 13th I cleaned our room and the bathroom. The 14th was sewing and I don't think I had been to any yet. The 15th Kelly took Nigel to get a hair cut because he had take the trimmer to him hair and it needed fixing up. I did book work. The 16th I did book work. Trying to get everything done for taxes. The 17th I did book work again. The 18th I cleaned the house. The 21st there was sewing again. I had a Dr appointment in the the morning so I took Heidi to sewing for Kelly's mom to watch and Nigel came with me. The Dr put me on stronger meds for my morning sickness but the side effects aren't good. So I have decided in the mornings if i'm gonna take the stronger meds and have the side effects or the other ones with no side effect but i'm sick and barfing.  The 22nd we left for Edmonton because Kelly had another test to try and get into EMT school. We went to the guest house singing that night because my house parents that I had where bak at the unit house as house parents again. It was lots of fun visiting with them and telling stories. The 24th we got home from Edmonton and stopped in GP for some groceries. Kelly didn't get into school again and we had decided that this time was the last time to try. So now to decided what to do and how to do it. He did get a promotion at the fire hall to lieutenant Fire fighter. That comes with a raise in pay and more hours and second in command next to the captain. He is very excited about it. He also has been busy in the machining shop and is dreaming of ways to get more work. He has been given a few ideas and is working on them. The 25th Kelly and I made pizzas at folks house for the whole family. I was fun but a bit of work also. The 28th one of Heidi's youth girl friends came over for the day he mom and dad both work and her older sister had to work that day so her mom didn't want her home by herself all day. She made a couple batches for cookie dough to put in the freezer for me so that was nice. I was having a very bad day so i was glad she could help with the kids. The 29th Grace Fry from ON came with all her fabric to Lorne and Myra's shop so I set up a little table with my stuff on it. I had it all packed up because I had a trade show coming up so I didn't have much. The 30th Kelly and I left the kids at folks with Heather and went and set up for the trade show. The 31st was the start of the show and it ran till the 2nd of April. Well I will tell you more about that next time. Hopefully my morning sickness soon starts to get better it is the worse this time around and it makes it hard to do normal things around the house. Kelly has helped a lot by taking the kids with him when it works and helping me at home. Till next time.....