Videos of Jaren Skating

He was starting to get the hang of it after about an hour of being out there.



This was one of our first attempts of the day after the skates were strapped on. He had been with Kevin the night before for about a 1/2 hour trying his hardest to stay on his two feet. He made quite an improvemet by the 2nd day!

Kicking Off the New Year

It's hard to believe that we are already coming close to the end of January. It has been a busy month so far. Connie and I tackled painting our church foyer, which took a good full 4 days. But of course the only picture I took of was when Ron, my Father-in-law was painting over the stairs (an area Connie and I couldn't reach). Needless to say it was a job that really needed to be done and I am happy to have that out of the way. We also went through one horrific week of unbelievably cold weather so Jaren had to spend the week home with us as the buses weren't running due to the extreme temperatures. We need to get life back to "normal", whatever that may be!!!

On Sunday Ryan (Kevin's cousin) and his new fiance Trina were out visiting at the farm so we went over to have a nice visit and lunch with them. Congratulations to them!!!! We are soo happy for them both and look forward to celebrating with them this summer!!!

Our little model, posing for a picture today before he headed out with Daddy to haul a load of peas west! He is such a little charmer!!

Landen has to be just like Daddy so he insisted on wearing his coveralls (like Daddy does) for trip. He even needed the vest on underneath like his dad!!! :)




With one child less in the house Jaren and I headed to our dug-out which Kevin cleared yesterday to have Jaren practice skating. This was his second atttempt today at skating and he did pretty good! He's practicing since the school is going to be going on everyday that they are there, so he wanted to try and get the hang of it before he had to do it in front of his peers.

It was soo nice to get outside for a 2nd day and enjoy some more reasonable and seasonable temperatures! I love winter when it's like this!!

A perk of living in the wide-open spaces is that you get to have your own skating rink!! :)

Little Miss Tori of course can not miss out on the action!

Holiday Fun With the Family

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Some of the memories of our Christmas activities and fun while my family was here. The weather was exceptionally warm for this time of year which made it great to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. Hope this Smilebox works. Just click somewhere to the LEFT on the picture (around Kendall's face) and not on the PLAY button and it should load the Smilebox.

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I seem to be having a problem with viewing the smilebox's. Are there other's who are unable to view them? Just curious. When you have sooooo many pictures, it is hard to choose so it's nice to throw them all together....but that seems pointless when you can't view them. Let me know!


Just figured something out............ When wanting to view the smilebox, don't click on the PLAY button but click somewhere else to the LEFT on the picture and then it seemed to work for me?!?!

Christmas Day

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Christmas Eve

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This year we hosted Christmas out at our place. My mom & dad, sister and her family arrived on Dec 24th to start the celebration of Christmas together. It is so much fun to watch the kids and feel their excitement of what the season brings! It was great to have everyone here and it is always sad when it has to end and life gets back to "normal"!

Veteran School Christmas Concert

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On Monday, December 19th, the Veteran School put on their Christmas Concert. This was Jaren's very first one that he's been involved in since he is only in ECS (kindergarten). I was really impressed with all the kids and how well everyone did. It was a fabulous night. I especially loved that part that involved our son :) Those little ECS students did awesome! I've created a smilebox which contains a couple of the videos from the night and the song featuring the ECS class. Hope you enjoy!

Christmas Started Early

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As Ron and Connie are headed up north for the holidays the boys got to enjoy opening their Christmas gifts from them last night. By the looks of it, it will be one exciting year for opening presents! They are at such a fun age. Thanks again Ron and Connie!

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Hemaruka Christmas Supper

A couple of weeks ago we had our annual Christmas supper at our community hall. Since there are a few children in our community the kids put on a little play and sang a song for a much appreciative crowd.

A raggy, torn Santa (Jaren)

Our Santa in his tux (any guesses???? :))

......Landen, OF COURSE!!!

One very sleepy Santa (Jaren)

Surfin' Santa (Adam)

Our farmer Santa (Zach)

The "REAL" Santa

Presents from Santa

Jaren scanning the crowd to see who was missing and to figure out who Santa is........he's no longer a believer ;)

Eyeing Santa up VERY carefully!