Chicago and a new hair cut :)

This past weekend, on Saturday I went to my friend Amanda's house in Claresholm and she cut and colored my hair. I decided I wanted to do something a little different and so she cut it short, like short! (for me anyways!) I really like it, I wasn't sure but the more I see it the more I like it.

Then on Sunday morning Mum, Tanya and I drove up to Calgary for the day. We went to the Stage West show and saw the musical Chicago. It was really good and it was nice to just spend a day with Mum and Tanya. It makes me want to go back and watch the movie.

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Also I wanted to show you all this picture below. The other day we had a small little rain storm and afterwards there was an absolute beautiful rainbow. We were on our way to the Lister household and when we got there, I looked at the rainbow and it was so beautiful that I decided to take a picture of it. I loved the way I could see both ends of the rainbow.

Such a beautiful reminder of God's promise!

My weekend

This past weekend was lots of fun. On Friday night, I had my niece Amelie sleep over. She had asked me last week if she could come over one day to scrapbook. So we decided to do it Friday night and she slept over. We had lots of fun together, she sure is a sweetheart.

Also, a couple of weeks ago I went to my friend Brenda's house and she was showing me she had just bought a Cricut. It is for scrapbooking, it cuts out different shapes and sizes; it depends what cartridge you have. I found one second hand and Bob let me buy it and then on Friday night I saw on Kijiji some cartridges and the lady was selling them for about half of what they are retail. So Bob let me buy them!

Needless to say, my Cricut got used a lot this weekend with Amelie for her scrapbooking!

Then on last night we found out about a month ago that our friend Steve, (who we probably haven't seen in about 10 years or so) was playing at one of the local pubs. So last night, Mum, Dad, Bob, Luba and Theresa (who drove down from Edmonton) went and saw him. It was so good to see him again, then this morning Bob and I went and helped him pack up his stuff. It was awesome to see him again!!

Weekend with Kellen and Bella

This past weekend Bob and I were able to have our nephew, Kellen and niece Isabella, for the entire weekend. I picked them up on Friday night and they stayed with us until Sunday night. We had so much fun with them, they are really great kids. 

We are so blessed to be able to live so close to them and spend time with them. I took some pictures over the weekend and here are just a few to share with you.  

I came out into the living room and saw these three wrestling and it was so cute!  They sure do love their Uncle Bob :)

Me and Bella, she is growing up and I am loving spending time with her!

She loves getting her nails painted, it's the one thing we do when we're together. 

Such a beautiful princess!

We had popcorn and movie night on Saturday night. I love these two so much and am blessed with each moment we spend together.

Bob bought a new DVD for us to watch, it as actually a cute movie. 

My first 10km race

Yesterday I ran my first 10km race :) I have been training for it for the last couple of months. My goal was to do it in under 1 hour and 20 minutes. Needless to say, when I came up the hill and saw the clock at 1:17, I was very happy!

Photo collages

I know it's been a while since I have posted. Sorry :(

This past week I have taken some photos and made up some photo collages and posted them on Facebook, so I thought I would share them with you.

A week ago Bob and I had Amelie and Kellen over for an evening, we watched movies and made homemade donuts. It was lots of fun!

Then on Saturday, Tanya and the kids went to the mall and invited Bob and I to go along. So we just went and hung out with them.

Gotta love Lethbridge :)

Then this past week we had two days of snow and I took some pictures the one day because the frost was so beautiful!

Aunty dates

Since moving to Lethbridge, I decided I wanted to start a new tradition! Seeing as I am close to my family now, I want to start spending  more time with my nieces and nephew. I love spending time with them and even though we are living so close there are times when I can go days without seeing them all.  

So I decided to start Aunty dates :) I am hoping to do it once a week. Each week I hope to spend a little time with one or more of my nieces or nephew. Just hanging out and spending time together. 

This week I invited Bella and Sophia over :) They came over and we had pizza for supper and watched a couple of movies. We also made popcorn and then just hung out. I also painting the girls finger and toe nails. We also had a little dance party in the living room, LOL! 

Here is a photo of me and my beautiful niece, Isabella. She is growing up so fast, I just love her!

And here is a photo of me and Sophia! She is just a cutie, a little troublemaker but a real cutie!

It was such a fun way to spend a Friday night, I am so blessed

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Weekend in Whitefish

This past weekend, Bob and I went to Whitefish Montana. We were blessed to be able to stay with our friends Richard and Marianne. We got to know them when we in Bible Study together from October to January with our friends, Cathy and Kevin. Also Rich is a chiropractor and so both Bob and I have been seeing him and it seems to be helping Bob's back so that is good! 

When Rich found out that Bob and I were planning to go away for the weekend, he invited us to stay at their place. They have a house here in Lethbridge as well as one in Whitefish. It was such a nice relaxing weekend. (It was a long weekend because of the Family Day holiday here in Alberta.) We were also blessed to be able to attend their church on Saturday night. They have three locations in Montana and the one we went to was in a old movie theater. Church started at 6:30 on Saturday night, Rich told us we had to get there about 5:30 to make sure we got a seat. One thing that was awesome to see was when we got to the movie theater there were already people lined up! How awesome that people actually line up to go to church, it was an awesome sight! The service was really good, both Bob and I enjoyed it.

On the drive to and from Montana, I couldn't help but take pictures of the mountains! No matter how many times I see them, I am just always in awe of their beauty. I took so many pictures with my phone and decided to pick the best three. I hope you enjoy the beauty as much as I did! God's beauty in all of creation. 

The Alberta highway, getting close to the mountains.

Beautiful mountains in Montana, a little more snow than southern Alberta.

On the way home, two days later and it had snowed a little over the weekend so the trees were all lightly covered in snow. So beautiful :)

The one song that I always feel like singing when I see God's beautiful creation.

How Great Thou Art


Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works thy hand hath made,
I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed;

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
and hear the brook, and feel he gentle breeze;

And when I think that God his son not sparing,
Sent him to die - I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin:

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And take me home- what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow in humble adoration
And there proclaim, my God, how great thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!