tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57011883248901403272024-03-13T13:13:38.428-06:00The MacIntyre FamilyFive busy kids and two out-numbered parents, what more can we say?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-62666417621733988742011-11-15T21:33:00.000-07:002011-11-15T21:33:37.898-07:00FYI - new Canadian Cub Scout Uniforms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Scouts Canada uniforms are out, and I for one am very glad! I love my new red Leader shirt, it's great! I can tell from the stats on my two blogs that people really want to know where the badges go on the new shirts, so I'd like to provide a link to our pack's website, run by our Akela, Carole Hudson. All the information on the new uniforms can be found on her site, along with lots of other great information. Here's the link: <a href="http://www.sites.google.com/site/beaumontcubs/home">Carole's Cub Page.</a> Happy Hunting!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-6324705116243631132011-11-15T21:23:00.000-07:002011-11-15T21:23:22.967-07:00Remembrance Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joshua and I participated in our town's Remembrance Day ceremony. We met the other Cubs and Leaders from our pack at St. Vital's Church around 10:15 a.m. It was windy and chilly, but no snow! All the servicemen, cadets, fire fighters and Scouts/Guides lined up, and we marched through town to the Town Office where the memorial is. The boys did their best to keep up with the real cadets and soldiers. Here's a picture of the sea cadets marching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's our little troop, with our Akela, Carole Hudson. We were standing next to some very well ordered air cadets, who set a great example for our young boys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here come the sea cadets! Very impressive to small boys. Josh now wants to be a soldier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each community organization got to place a wreath on the memorial. Then all the ordinary citizens placed their poppy on one of the wreaths. There was a trumpeter who played the reveille, and our MP Mike Lake spoke, and our Mayor, Camille Berube. It was cold, it was long, the sound wasn't always great, but we asked the boys to remember it was nothing compared to what our troops go through on a daily basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lest we forget......</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-38855040574850930282011-11-03T11:55:00.000-06:002011-11-03T11:55:09.953-06:00Halloween Trick or Treaters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are Jeffrey and Joshua and a bunch of their friends all geared up to go trick or treating Monday night. Joshua is on the far left, and Jeff is third from the right. They were joined by (L to R) a Russian soldier with a Mexican accent, a hot dog, Waldo, a spy, and Mario. Joshua was some sort of Ninja, and Jeff was a superfast hero named Hyperdrive. There was no snow, so the evening was a success! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-58645304944832453542011-11-03T11:29:00.000-06:002011-11-03T11:29:34.990-06:00Band Concert<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jeffrey took part in his first ever band concert, playing his clarinet! We were treated to a smattering of little songs that they have learned since mid-September. Many were recognizeable. Jeff loves playing music, I'm glad he gets the opportunity to participate in the band program. Yay Jeff!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-53287037215916408252011-09-25T19:44:00.000-06:002011-09-25T19:44:17.440-06:00Birthday Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For several years now Jason has asked for blueberry pie for his birthday. PIe is easier than cake, so I'm all for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah helped me light the nineteen candles. Wax was dripping on the pie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impressive display of lights! Somebody is getting old(er).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at all the smoke, get the fire extinguisher! Is that your birthday cake (pie), or is Rome burning?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josh took some candid shots of Jason. Jason is faking more enthusiasm than he is actually feeling, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ooh, presents!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He looks a little zombie like in this shot, I'm not sure what they were going for. Nevertheless, Happy Birthday again, Jason!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-5397322891847866202011-09-20T20:08:00.000-06:002011-09-20T20:08:19.763-06:00Happy 19th Birthday Jason!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason turned nineteen this Saturday, which makes me officially old. He requested chicken parmesan, garlic bread, caesar salad, and blueberry pie for his dinner. Happy Birthday big guy!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-47468972264340935382011-09-20T20:03:00.000-06:002011-09-20T20:03:33.707-06:00Happy Birthday Kerri!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Kerri! Hope you had a fa-bu-lous day!!!!!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-87656820939635175802011-09-06T22:43:00.000-06:002011-09-06T22:43:08.018-06:00First Day of School, Sept. 1, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First Day of School! Last Thursday it was official, summer break is over, time to get back to work, people! Didn't you get the memo about wearing plaid? Sarah, Josh and Jeff obviously did. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-86188851860778933312011-09-06T22:39:00.001-06:002011-09-07T06:45:10.322-06:00Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park - Road Trip!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of weekends ago we took a road trip with our three youngest children, Sarah, Jeffrey and Joshua. You know you're an Albertan when you measure distance in hours, not kilometres. As in, we drove eight hours from Beaumont, Alberta to Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan. We hit Calgary and the gps said "turn right, drive 395 km to Maple Creek, Sask." That's one right turn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day after we arrived, we went on a hike in the park. The Trans Canada Trail makes its way through the interprovincial park. We took the Whispering Pines Trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trail took us through the Lodge Pole Pine woodlands into some grassy fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We climbed a fairly steep hill to get to this point. I think that Cypress Hills has the highest elevation east of the Rockies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are Jeff, Sarah and Josh at the top of the hill. Phew, time for a bottle of water and a granola bar!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone left behind a little visitor in the woods! An Inukshuk. Josh'll tell you all about them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This log looks very scary, doesn't it? Is it a wolf, or a wild pig, or a monster?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Josh and Jeff spent the trip trying to catch a fat squirrel. This is as close as they got. I wonder what they would have done if they'd caught one?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We rented some pedal boats and toured the lake, which was nice and clean and quiet. Jeff and Josh made good time on the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had perfect weather all weekend, it was just beautiful. What a pretty lake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking for a great family campground, Cypress Hills Park is the place to go. Lots of good campsites, a general store and icecream shop, a gas station and laundromat, boat rentals, horseback riding, ziplines, mini golf, and lots of great trails to hike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come on in, the water's fine! Actually it looks like it was a little chilly, hey?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Wuv, twu wuv. That dweam wifin a dweam..." Kudos to Sarah for the great lighting! And they walked off into the sunset hand in hand....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three youngest Mac's sleeping the day away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our home away from home. It was really cozy and fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing like a cup of hot chocolate to get you going in the morning!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much longer till we get home? Only another eight hours, kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We played a variation of cows and cemetaries on the way home. Cemetaries were few and far inbetween, so it was cows v. haybales. It was a close match. We also visited a gas station in almost every town between Maple Creek and Beaumont, thanks to a small boy and a very large bottle of blue gatorade. The little fellows were good sports, and we made lots of happy memories on this trip.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-3595769479637605402011-08-08T22:15:00.000-06:002011-08-08T22:15:10.910-06:00Happy Birthday Sarah!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Sarah Kelly MacIntyre!! Finally Fourteen! Dances! Learner's Permits!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The budding artist received her hearts desire, a graphic tablet to practice her skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mmmmmm. Triple layer Black Midnight chocolate cake. Skor ice cream. Mmmmmm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Josh insisted on party hats. Sarah complied. She's such a good sister. Happy birthday Kiddo!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-16190724098115007832011-08-02T20:34:00.000-06:002011-08-02T20:34:28.479-06:00Capital Ex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday we went to Capital Ex with Jeffrey, Joshua and Sarah. It was the perfect day to go to the fair, beautiful, warm but not too warm, and barely a cloud in the sky. Perfection! Here's Joshua coming down the giant slide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's Jeffrey whizzing through the air on the big swing thing. (See what I mean about the weather?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They each won a prize at those rigged fair games. Miracles do happen. Here's Sarah with her big prize, Domo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a great exhibit on animation inside the Coliseum, put on by Looney Tunes, Disney and Dreamworks. Here's Sarah, Jeffrey and Joshua in front of the Kung Fu Panda exhibit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All in all, it was a great day. ( At the very end of the day I got my treat, those little mini donuts. Yum! ) </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-22982229147576105372011-07-20T09:03:00.000-06:002011-07-20T09:03:14.808-06:00Josh's 10th Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Joshua! Josh had a great tenth birthday, with nice presents from his family, and a big chocolate cake, and chinese food for supper! Then we all went to see the last Harry Potter movie. What a great day!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-76654958949519712952011-07-12T15:23:00.000-06:002011-07-12T15:23:12.743-06:00Jeffrey and Joshua Honours Night, June 28, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Jeffrey receiving his award from Ms. Gudmundson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The grade five honours students (Jeff is on the far right).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The grade four honours students.</span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-69551145734019432432011-07-12T14:56:00.001-06:002011-07-27T21:18:18.757-06:00Sarah's Big Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> All the girls lined up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Sarah and Ms. Auch</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-10481620283627018272011-07-10T09:29:00.000-06:002011-07-10T09:29:41.995-06:00Happy Birthday Doug Jr.!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's Sarah at her grade 8 band concert, playing the flute. She did really well that night, and even performed a duet! We are so proud of her, she works really hard at her music. Go Sarah!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-12894203261158314912011-06-27T21:05:00.000-06:002011-06-27T21:05:59.421-06:00Justin's Caving Adventure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The priest's quorum recently went caving as a weekend activity. They were lead by their fabulous leaders, and had a great time! Here they are, after coming out of the Rat's Nest Cave. Sounds charming, doesn't it? Justin is in the middle, arms crossed in front. They look for all the world like Cape Breton Miners, don't they?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-13519501162269473072011-04-14T14:28:00.000-06:002011-04-14T14:28:41.316-06:00Spring has sprung....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, guess what we woke up to this morning - an April snowstorm! We knew it was coming, but it's still discouraging. We hadn't gotten rid of all the snow from winter yet, and here comes another big dump. Sigh. Jeff's face fell when he looked out the window. He is so sick of winter! This too shall pass, they've forecast warmer weather for the end of next week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In unrelated news, I've started a new blog! This blog has a purpose - it's all about home and family. And gardening. I'm really excited about it, this is an ambitious project for me, and I'm going to do my best to keep to my blogging schedule. My first intro post was yesterday, and today I did my first home and garden post. The name of the blog is "Bless This Mess", and the address is <a href="http://www.jen-blessthismess.blogspot.com/">http://www.jen-blessthismess.blogspot.com/</a>. So come on over and check it out!</span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-83278651241660146242011-02-23T19:52:00.001-07:002011-04-13T16:14:26.696-06:00Happy Birthday Justin!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It was a dark and stormy night....." Actually it was a dark and stormy night sixteen years ago when Justin made his first appearance. (He says he can't remember a thing. I'll never forget!) Justin's birthday menu: caesar salad, garlic toast, chicken parmesan, and a big ol' DQ ice cream cake. Yum. It's all about the food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, what can I say, five children make it hard to sit down at the computer! Hope everyone is staying warm and safe during this very long winter, I know I'm counting the days until spring arrives. Here's a picture of our Joshua from New Year's Eve, he sure knows how to be the life of the party. Rock on Joshy!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-58255362142233001392010-11-11T19:40:00.000-07:002010-11-11T19:40:31.818-07:00Until We Meet Again<p><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/JiRc84kihRM/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JiRc84kihRM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JiRc84kihRM?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></p><p>I hope everyone had a meaningful Remembrance Day. Lest we forget....</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-59793448196378209892010-10-25T19:04:00.000-06:002010-10-25T19:04:33.906-06:00Food Bank Drive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the 16th of October the Beaumont Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints held a food drive along with Campbells and Shaw Cable. Campbells and Shaw Cable agreed to match our wards donation. We collected 5000 lbs of food, which means 15,000 lbs of food went to the Leduc County Food Bank! Here's a picture of Josh and friends while we were unloading our vehicles. The youth and children all worked really hard with their parents to drop off flyers and pick up the food. It was hard work, but lots of fun, and we were all glad to help out. Thanks to the organizers for planning a great event.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-12266048340777244472010-10-25T18:54:00.000-06:002010-10-25T18:54:16.816-06:00Snow on the Scarecrow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We woke up this morning to a little bit of snow on the ground, surprise!! Welcome to Alberta.....It snowed lightly until the afternoon. Josh was really excited because he has been dying to go sledding, unfortunately it was too warm for much snow to accumulate. The temperatures this week will range between 2 degrees celcius and 5 degrees celcius. Sigh. Ever gone trick or treating in a snow suit? It may happen (again) this year. The leaves aren't even off all the trees yet!! Thank goodness Scott and I got so much yard work done this weekend, it really payed off. Hope you are all having a pretty fall, wherever you are!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701188324890140327.post-60073213389717223642010-10-20T18:29:00.000-06:002010-10-20T18:29:31.918-06:00FLYing through the HolidaysFeeling stressed out at the thought of another crazy holiday season? The Flylady has started her holiday missions this past Monday, but, as she says, you're not behind, just jump right in! Check out <a href="http://www.flylady.net/">http://www.flylady.net/</a> for Flylady's holiday missions, and to print off her free Holiday Control Journal. Don't know who Flylady is? Well, she is a great little lady from Southern U.S.A. who has started a home organization website that helps you get rid of clutter and set up routines to help keep your house neat and tidy, and guess what? It works! I've been following Flylady since we lived in Calgary many years ago, and although my house is far from perfect, my daily routines usually keep me on track. Check it out, you won't be sorry! Especially this time of year, she's a real lifesaver.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0