4-H on Parade

At the end of May our 4-H club (Irricana Beef & Multi Club) goes in to Calgary to sell their projects.  Roy just loves going down there and spending time with the animals.  Here are a few pictures of our day at the Stampede Grounds prior to the boys & girls selling their projects.  Yes this is a very hard day for the kids and some of the parents as well but you know they come back for another year of this.  The money that the get from selling their projects go towards paying the bills for purchasing, feeding their projects and usually the remainder goes into the bank for school down the road.

Here is a new steer that we purchased for Steer Classic which is during the Calgary Stampede - his name is Mic Blue and we purchased him from Maddy Sibbald

I am still wondering what in the heck happened to May!!!  I have been keeping myself rather busy with these last couple of weeks.  Roy finished his first year of Preschool with a carnival that we put on for the kids that completed a successful year.  Roy due to his age will be going back into preschool in September.

Roy - getting his certificate for finishing a year of preschool

Getting his face painted

My cheetah

Well school is done that is all that I can say, now we have to finish so lets get to playing.

Tyrrell Museum II

As I mentioned in earlier post about my son's first field trip.  Well from what my sister told me he has a blast.  I took him to Tyrrell in the summer and he was really not that interested in the place so we headed to the Gazoo for a little fun.

Well this is a lot of photos for his blog today, I hope that you enjoy Roy's adventure to the Tyrrell Museum.

Only 1 Meter High - wow very small to the bone

weighing in only between a coyote and a beaver

being his usual goof ball

Now the class heads to Reptile World - oh what fun they will have

out comes the SNAKE

Roy going in for the pet!



Not really sure what to think



You want me to do WHAT!!!

OK OK I will

And that ends our field trip to the Tyrrell Museum and Reptile World.

Royal Wedding II

Ok ok, I have caught the Wedding Bug for William and Catherin – It took this long for me to get all caught up in it...  I was just a wee bab when William’s parents got married and I do remember watching it on the tv here in Canada.  Looking back at that I and watching the wedding again of Charles and Diana and then watching the this wedding – Wow what a difference.  If you look at Charles and William as grooms William you can tell is truly in love with the bride and is making sure that nothing goes wrong or him stepping on her dress…

William just has such love in his eyes when he looks at Catherine and so does she.

Close up of the Earrings

Now this is the wedding dress that I thought she would wear to her wedding

What a Morning

So today marked the day of Prince William and Kate Middleton got married... Now who of you out there got up and watched the wedding??  I set my alarm for this morning as I was dying to see her wedding dress.  I envisioned a simply yet elegant dress with some lace and a little train - not a long as Di's.  Well I got up at 6:30 a little late for the wedding oops.  So on to the world wide web I went to see what her dress looked liked.  Well I LOVE IT!! I think it was perfect not over the top and looks like it will be a hit with future brides to come.  Well I have found some pictures of the wedding that I would like to share with you.
Oh they are now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - With 3 kisses on the balcony - that I was up to see.


The Royal Kiss the world was waiting for at  Buckingham Palace

Now that I showed you this of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge here are the rest of photos.

Her Earrings are from her Parents (something New) and the Crown is for 1936 borrowed from Queen Elizabeth II

Michael & Kate Middleton and sister Pippa going into Westminster Abbey

What a dress!!! - the click link does not work

Prince William and Prince Harry entering Westminster Abbey

Introducing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

On their way to Buckingham Palace in the same carriage that Prince Charles and Princess Di in 1981

Now that Kate has officially married her Prince!! Her new name is Catherine Duchess of Cambridge - goodbye to Kate and hello to Catherine.

To be honest I really like her sisters brides made dress!!!  When I got married that is what I wanted to wear for my day but but with the lace that Kate has - well that is not what I wore at all.  I guess it is what fits your body and looks good for you.  So if you are reading this and want the dress but you know it won't work, don't be disappointed as you will look great in whatever you get.

Happy Easter

Well, Easter has finally arrived here in Alberta, not to say the weather is showing it.  But today it is suppose to be +15.  So far our Easter has been a crazy one.  We went to my In-Laws for Supper on Good Friday which was good but I could not eat meat due to my believes so watching everyone else eating Ham and Turkey was very hard but I managed the meal.  Yesterday, my son and I made the journey to Medicine Hat to visit my mom and my grandparents.  Roy was very excited to see his Great Grandparents, as well as his gramma and of course my sister was down for the holidays as well.  We arrived home at 10 pm last night and Roy went to sleep so that the Easter Bunny could make the journey to our house. 

This morning Roy came running into our room to tell me that the Bunny had come.  He was waiting for this day for 2 weeks as he so informed me.  The Bunny left a little trail of bags full of jelly beans and some foiled chocolate from his room to a pile of  Socks & Underware (he was telling everyone at preschool that is what he wanted the Easter Bunny to bring him), Toys and more chocolate and jelly beans and gum.  I think the bunny spoiled him a little too much.  Then I went into the freezer and there were the leftover chocolates.  I guess the bunny did not want to put out all the chocolate - good choice.

Today we are off to my Dad's for supper at 4 so another crazy day for Roy and I but, I guess this only happens once a year so I think that I will be able to handle today, fingers crossed.

Well Have a great Easter Sunday!!!

Has Spring Arrived???

Yesterday day it the sun was out and it was beginning to look at lot like Spring has finally arrived here in Alberta.  But we did have a really bad wind which was not so nice but at least it was looking like Spring.

Our cows were happy to be out in the field instead of being locked up due to the snow storms that we have been having and everything looking like it was going to start to turn green with the season of spring.  We have birds singing and gophers running around the fields.

This morning, there were no birds singing, but we received SNOW!!! yes I said it SNOW!!!! it is April 14th and we are getting Snow.

Our cows are not looking too happy with this weather that we got last night.  It is going to be a very busy day for my hubby as he has to check all of our cows and then start to bed (put out straw to keep them warm) and then feed the cows.  So for my hubby his day has just started (6am) and will probably be out until later this afternoon (3pm or so).

I was really thinking that spring was here to stay but not in this area of the country.... I think it is time for a visit somewhere there is actually spring and flowers growing.

Have a great Spring day.