August 4, 2017

Hello to everyone. Once again its time to sit down and look over that last month. My has it been busy. Lots of things have happened and some stressful times but we are getting through them.  July 1st is our Canada Day. Our little town of Valhalla always has a parade in which Kelly gets to drive fire truck in. Heidi and Nigel had great fun riding and throwing candy to the children. The 2nd we went to folks for diner. Kelly's had has first cousin who isn't in the church and has married a lady who spent years living in Kenya as a missionary. Well there daughter got married a couple of weekends ago the this ladies sisters where still here and wanted to meet our family. They where very interesting to visit with. One is a nurse and had spent all her life helping in Africa. I can't remember which part for sure but other lady was in Kenya for years as a missionary. The one lady's 4 children are all over seas serving in different parts of the world. Makes me wonder why we had such a hard time finding missionaries some times. These people have spent there whole life doing this. The 3rd the kids and I went to Rosi's for a tea party. I came home and tilled the garden. The 4th we had a 4th of July party with some of our American friends. One you will all know is Brian Buerge's. We had 4 couples and 13 kids so our yard was busy! The 5th and 6th I just worked inside cleaning up different rooms of the house. The 6th we had supper in the field because the guys where baling. The 7th we took supper to folks. My oven quit working sometime the last of June so any cooking that has been done has to be done on the green egg. The stove top worked just not the oven. The 8th we went to crooked creek and bought a couple of pails of strawberries. The 9th there was a reception in Crooked Creek so we went to that. The 10 and 11th I once again worked on cleaning up the house. I wanted to have it all done by the time Darren's came because baby comes soon after that. The 11th Kelly started work for Frank up in Rycroft about an hour north of us putting up bins. The 12th I had an appointment with my diabetic Dr. The 13th  I had food committee meeting at church. We are having teachers prep here in August so we needed to get planing some meals. The rest of the week not much happened. Kelly was working for Frank. The 17th was a bad day for us. I will try and explain it as best as I can. It was about 10 in the morning and we had just finished breakfast. I was still sitting at the table when I noticed a lady walk by the window coming to door. For some reason the morning I hadn't pulled my PJ pants when i got out of bed. I had a long shirt one but didn't want to answer the door like that so I stayed sitting. Nigel and Heidi opened the door and the lady asked me if a Tiffany lived here and I said no. Right away something didn't seem right or feel right she wouldn't look at me and keep looking in my house. Then she said a friend of hers from Hythe told her this is where she lived so I said I didn't know all the people along our road and I asked she what directions she had and maybe I could help her. I really could tell at this point she wasn't telling the truth and I started to feel uncomfortable. She pulled some random directions off the top of her head that made no sense at all. I then told her she should go back to Hythe and start over. She said ok I will and then left. I quick got up and went and looked out kitchen window and took note of her walking to the car and I took note of the car. Then i quick went to the living room window because something to me to get a picture of the car because she was gonna be back. I was waiting in the living room for her to leave and nothing was happening so ran back to the kitchen window and her car was still there. Then I sent Heidi to get my pants because I was gonna go outside and see if she needed help. I went back to the living room to wait and then I notice the car driving off. I quick took a picture and was gonna take another one when I noticed our pickup was behind it! I quick ran back to the kitchen and sure enough our pickup was gone. I was mad! I called the RCMP and told them what had happened. They where at my place with in 30 minutes of this all happening. I got all the reports filled out and the only thing I didn't know was the license number. I had been trying to get ahold of Kelly but he wasn't answering his phone. We lost a few things in the pickup. Pry the most important was Kelly's brand new fire gear and 2 pair of $600 boots for fires. Other than that just some other stuff that is replaceable. In the evening we went to folks for supper because Vicky and her kids are out for a couple of weeks. The 18th Flash had another appointment for a booster on his shots.  I cleaned the house good. The RCMP called in the evening and said they had found the car and had a suspect. They wondered if could come in and do a picture pack and try and identify who it was. So the 19th I went to Beaverlodge to do that. It's hard to do those picture packs because it's not the same face who came to the door. I did pick out one that looked the most like her. The had an ultrasound in town in the afternoon. Darren and Lindsey came in the evening! We where very excited to see them! I was the first time that I got to see my niece Kylee.  The 20th I had an OB appointment in town. We all went and had fish tacos for dinner then Lindsey and I left the kids with the dads to take home for naps while we went to my Dr. I looks like I will be having baby about 2 weeks early because i'm on insulin. The 21st the insurance lady came out and i had more paperwork to fill out. We went to Tony's for supper. The 22nd the guys went quading all day so Lindsey, the kids, and I went to town to shop some. The 23rd we went to folks for dinner. In the evening just the guys went to church. The 24th Kelly and I went to town early to look at pickups and Darren's brought all the kids in a we went for a pizza dinner. The 25th we went to Galen's for supper. The 26th Darren's left at 5:30 so Kelly took them back to the airport. I had a Dr appointment later that morning. We had lots of fun with Darren's and the kids had tons of fun playing outside. The 27th I decided it was it was time to start putting food in the freezer for after baby. I made 12 loaves of bread. The part for my oven had came in and Kelly finally had a chance to fix it. The 28th I made a bunch of beef burritos for the freezer. In the evening was the Bible School program. We served donuts for snack instead of finger food. I was a lot easier! The 29th I made a bunch of easy freezer meals. Kelly was gone for the day so it was easy. The 30th we had Travis and Amanda for supper to plan a couple of programs. I did hobo pies outside.  Well that's all for this month. We still haven't heard anything on our pickup. The insurance lady said most likely it was taken to a shop and sold for parts and we will never see it again. Till next time......