36 Years...what?

Thirty six years ago today, I married my best friend.  We were just two young kids with no idea what was ahead of us.

Let's look at what happened to these two young kids.  Ron held the following jobs:

• Breakfast Manager at McDonalds
• Real Estate Agent
• Assistant Pastor in Gananoque, Ontario
• Senior Pastor in Sharbot Lake, Ontario
• Senior Pastor in Frankford, Ontario
• RCMP Constable in Swift Current and Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan
• RCMP Constable in Three Hills, Alberta
• RCMP Corporal in Pincher Creek, Alberta

I've worked for:  Empire Life, Liberty Mutual, Limestone District School Board, Hastings & Prince Edward Board of Education, Innovation Credit Union and Prairie College.

 

We have added to our family two wonderful kids and 5 grandchildren. 

Our life has been exciting.  We continue to hike, bike and enjoy the ride.

36 years....life has been an adventure and it continues to be.  There is no one else I'd rather be spending my life with.

 



Way Overdue!

I've planned a number of times to get back to Three Hills but something always seem to come up.  The one time I went back for work, Andrew and Brianne were in Ontario SO finally, I just made it happen.  We were so excited to see Andrew and Brianne and get to know Elliott and Sawyer.  Ron connected with the boys right away.

They were just so sweet.  Lots of smiles and laughs.  We had nice weather so we got to walk take the boys for walks.

We had some great meal with Andrew and Brianne but the real excitement was when the boys got their meals.

Ace even got excited because food was usually flying. We have always enjoyed our time with Andrew and Brianne (our Alberta kids) but the excitement is just a little more now with these two sweet boys.

The RCMP have taken us from Ontario to the west and along the way we have grown our family.  Our visit back to Three Hills was way overdue but we were so glad that we finally made it work.  We went to the detachment to see everybody and I stopped at the college to have a little visit and even got to see two of the team that travelled last year.  Our visit wouldn't have been complete though without pulling out the Catan board and so both nights that we were there, we had game nights.

It was a great visit!  From there, we went to see our son and it was a little overdue to meet his new girlfriend.  We had a nice walk down to the river and let the dogs play in the water and then enjoyed a barbeque salmon dinner, followed by a backyard fire.

It was so wonderful seeing our son so happy.  He has had such a horrible year and it was a little overdue seeing him happy with his new beautiful friend and, of course, his dogs!

Visits

A week ago Sunday I waited anxiously for my sister and her husband to arrive.  It's so great when family comes to visit.  They arrived just after a big storm passed out of the area. 

I put my culinary skills to work and had a ham dinner and cheese cake waiting for them.

The next morning, we had coffee/tea and cinnamon buns to start our day. The morning was spent around the pool table and visiting in the living room.  After a quiche lunch, I acted as tour guide.  It's quite a beautiful place so it was fun to show them around. We stopped where the prairies meet the mountains.

We drove into Waterton and looked for animals but only saw elk at a distance and a few deer.  The bears were still hiding although we were told at the gate that "they were up."

The views didn't disappoint though.

After we finish sightseeing, we headed back home.  We had a barbeque chicken dinner and played some pool.

It was wonderful having Carol and Mike with us for a few days.  After a good breakfast, they were off to Edmonton.

The next day Ron and I went for a walk around Allison.  This was were we had been skiing.

We discovered that we weren't alone in the woods.  We were thankful that we only saw the evidence of him and not see the actual grizzly.

On our drive home, we saw a whole herd of elk and they crossed the road right in front of us.

Ron has been back to work and I have been doing a little catch up for the college and some dog walking at the SPCA.  It was a bittersweet moment this afternoon when my pal, Rex went to his forever home.

We are looking forward to a nice little break in a few days and can't wait to go and spend time with these little guys.  We love visits and visiting.

Aren't they cute!  Can't wait to hold these guys.