Hello to everyone! I am doing this on the 13th of
January. We don’t have internet right now so I will have to post it later. Our
internet “broke” while we where on vacation. How does internet brake you may
ask? Well the best answer I can give you is while we where gone it got super
cold here like -40 and even colder and they think it cracked something. I guess
it’s to cold to fix it now but by next week it’s suppose to warm up so they
will fix it then. Thank -you to all who sent us Christmas cards and letters! We
love to hear what goes on in your lives! I will try and tell you a little about
ours. Before I start my monthly post. Some exciting things happened over the
last year. At the beginning we found out we where having another baby. We where
very happy but soon the morning sickness hit and it was by far was the worse yet. I was on two
different medications to keep from barfing. Sometime in early summer we found
out we where having a little girl. Heidi was very excited to have a little
sister. The first part of July Kelly was working about 1 ½ hours away and
someone came onto our yard on morning came to the door and talked to me. When
she left she took our pickup. To this day we still don’t know where it is and
far as we know RCMP haven’t caught the lady yet. The middle of July my sister
Lindsey and her husband Darren and my niece Kylee came to spend a week. We had
lots of fun with them in our little house. The first part of August our church
hosted teachers prep and we are food committee so we where busy with that. Then
September 6, 2017 a week and a half early our little 8 pound girl joined our
family. We named her Margo Kendalyn. She is the sweetest little thing but also
my worse baby for fussiness. Also on the 6th my sister Monica came
and lived with us for 2 weeks to help out with everything. Then Christmas we
flew home to Michigan this year to be with my family for 2 weeks. We had a
great time! Now a little about my other 2 children. Heidi is 5 and told me the
other day that she is a youth girl now. She is always on the move and only
stops to colour or do a puzzle. She loves to help empty the dishwasher, take
care of clothes, or help with Margo. Nigel is 3 and thinks he is as big as his
dad. He is always asking to go help him. After harvest this year my floors got
combined lots and had lots of grain carts and trucks on them. He to loves to
help out where he can and play with Margo. Margo is a sweet little girl and
almost always has a big smile on her face. She loves to watch Heidi and Nigel
play. She sleeps really good most nights but has her nights where she is up a
lot. She rolls over and is laughing now. Kelly is still a machinist and had
been busy with it this past year. He is also a Firefighter and got a promotion
this year to lieutenant with hopes to be Station Captain in the next couple of
years. He spends most his summers in training and the winters taking
courses. Me I just try and keep up with
the dishes, laundry, cooking, and cleaning which has gotten a lot harder since
the baby. I have had to give up Pampered Chef for now because I don’t have the
time any more for it. It’s kinda sad but also a relief not to have it. Ok now on to the month of December. The 1st
and 2nd I was at the trade
show in town. I didn’t do as good this year as in the past but it wasn’t bad.
The 5th Margo had an appointment with our family dr to go over her
ultrasound. She has a heart murmur but the dr isn’t concerned about it. The 7th
was Margo and I’s last appointment with my OB.
She is sending us to a heart dr just to make sure her heart is ok. The 8th Nigel had a haircut and we
went to Kelly’s folks for supper. The 9th we went to Heartvalley in
the evening to a wedding reception. It
was for Kelly’s first cousin. The 10th we went to folks for dinner
and in the evening, we went to Greg and Olive because they where having an open
house for the church library. The 11th Heidi was sick. The 13th
Kelly was helping Clay put up tin in his shop so we went to there for dinner.
The 16th was the La Glace fire Christmas Party. This year it was at
the curling rink. The kids had lots of fun going up and down the lanes in inner
tubes. The 17th the youth had there Christmas program in the
evening. The 18th Kelly went over to Frank’s had helped with
building his house. In the evening there was caroling in Hythe. The 19th
we had to go to town to deliver the pampered chef orders and get stuff for
church for the children’s Christmas program. The 20th Kelly had to
work in town and we had to be back at church by 5:30 to set up for the snacks
after the program. The 21st we went and picked up cupcakes for
Heidi’s birthday. The 22nd my little girl turned 5! I can’t believe
it! We had the Isaac Christmas as well so we had her birthday cupcakes for
dessert. The 23rd we headed to Calgary to fly to Michigan for
Christmas. We got just passed Foxcreek about 2 ½ hours down road and we got in
a massive car pile up. We where not hit and didn’t hit anyone but seen lots of
people hitting the back of trucks and going in the ditch. It was bad. We where
there for 4 hours. There had been a bad accident about a 1 mile ahead of us.
The roads where icy and you couldn’t see very far in front of you. We finally
got on our way again and the roads never did get much better. It got so bad
passed Edmonton we where only going 10 mile an hour. We hit the ditch once but
got out right away. We made it to Calgary about 11:30 that night. Our plane
left at 8 on the 24th so we had to be up by 5:30. Got on our first
flight to Minneapolis and had to run to our next plane clear on the other side
of the airport. Made it just in time for everyone to use the bathroom and then
we boarded for Grand Rapids. We landed at 3:30. Spent lots of fun times with
family and friends. All of my sisters came so it was fun. We even went down to
Lindsey’s for a couple of days. She only lives 3 hours from folks. While we where at folks my Great Grandma died.
She was 107. We had found out a day or so before she wasn’t doing good. She has
been wishing for years to died so she finally got her wish. It was nice to see
all my cousins and Aunts and Uncles. Kelly hadn’t met most of them so now he
knows who we are talking about. Well that it all for this time. Till next
time…..
