Traditions - What are they??

We are here and trying to make our own family traditions.

We ususally put up the tree together, and spend Christmas Day with all the family we can. We are planing to attend a Living Christmas Nativity Presentation Christmas Eve.

What are some things you do for Christmas??

No Need for a Dentist!

Sarah has lost her FIRST TOOTH!

It has been loose for some time, but tonight she lost it while eating a piece of ham. She thought she had found a bone in it, and was surprised to find it was a tooth!

She is hoping for a visit from the tooth fairy! rumor has it that the going rate is a looney.

She is very excited with the realization that her top tooth is also loose. How big we are growing!

Winter Wonderland

We are so excited, we might actually have a white Christmas!!! We have NEVER had a white Christmas here since we moved to Alberta. This is a picture of Early this month BEFORE a Chinook came in and melted most of it away. (A Chinook is a warm wind, that often melts all our snow away several times each winter.) It is a taken out our back door, across the deck looking at Ken's garage.

New Member of the Family!

We have WONDERFUL NEWS! We are adding a NEW MEMBER to the Lynch Family.

We have an estimated date of arrival of around July 6th.

This is very exciting for us, and we are all looking forward to a new Brother or Sister.

Stay Tuned for more details....

Ward Christmas Party

Mommy and Daddy were very involved in putting on our Ward Christmas Party this year! It was a lot of work, and tons of stress, but it turned out very good.

We did something a little different this year. We brought our ward to Bethlehem.

We had about 200 people come almost all dressed in Biblical attire. Daddy built all the stalls in the town. Each family was asked to bring a blanket, to sit on, and was given a bag on money to visit the town.

Each family went booth to booth, and purchased goods for their family. We received a candle at the synague, a Dredel at Toys, wooden stars to decorate at the woodshop, apples and oranges at the fruit stand, stuffed pitas at the bakery, and soup at the soup kitchen, and at the Inn we could get water, and large plates of goodies. We even had a tailor for those who were in need of biblical clothes.

We visited, ate, and had lots of fun. We watched a small program, perfect for us kids, and then cleaned up to come home. It was a very busy night, because Mommy was so busy helping, Daddy had to do everything with us kids. But it was still fun!

You can see Grandpa Moore, and Nana Moore sitting in chairs, and Courtney, Nicole and Kenny, with Daddy. Sarah is behind the other people, and Mommy is taking the picture.

Enrollment

Three of us are now official Girl Guide members.

Sarah is a brownie. She had to sign the brownie song, dance around the pond, and say her promise. Mommy is shaking her hand and welcoming her to brownies. "I Promise to do my best, be true to myself, my god, and Canada, I will help other people and keep the Brownie law."

Courtney is a Spark. She also sang her song, and said the spark promise. In few years she will also move up to Brownies with Mommy. "I Promise to share and be a friend."
Mommy was made an official leader and received her Owl pin. She is now know as "Tawney Owl"!

Great job guys, and hope you have lots of fun in the year to come!

Sarah's Family Birthday

On Saturday, Daddy helped the girls to bake Sarah's Chocolate Birthday Cake! Doesn't it look good!

We pulled out the Balloons, noise makers, and fun party stuff. Everyone was part of the action! Then Grandpa Moore, and Uncle James came over for cake, and presents. She blew out the candles, opened presents, and had a great time. Birthdays are so much fun when you seven!

Family having Fun

Sarah's Birthday Party

Sarah invited two girls over for her party Friday afternoon. School is finished at 1:00 of Fridays, so it a great day for a Birthday Party.

We decided on a Christmas theme party. So we decorated our Christmas Tree, made colored chocolate Christmas Trees and Snowman. They had a great time. Sarah even had a snowman cake from off the Kraft Canada web site. Was it ever easy! Chocolate pudding, cookies, and Whipped topping. Simple but tasted great.

He received lots of craft projects, and even a little newborn puppy that has to be petted to stay awake. She had a great time. Happy birthday Sarah, Your now 7.

Remembrance Day

It was so wonderful to have Daddy home with us today. Here is it a holiday for everyone! We went down to the town service outside at 11:00. It was good for the kids to see and understand that peopled died in the was so we are free to choose what we do and where we want to live, and what to believe.

It was also great just to have a day with Dad.

NEW WEBSITE! Tales From Family

I've Created a new web site to hear about YOU! Please check it out and add your comments to the question.

I am looking to collect stories from as many people as aI can. We need to share, while we still remember and are here. Lets not loose these memories!

BookMark it!

http://TalesFromFamily.blogspot.com

Big Work of Art

Auntie Mandy used the kids as her inspiration on this Giant Painting. This is her first piece of art this size! It measures 52"x42" (a little larger then 4 feet x 3 Feet) Great job!

Singing Kids

This is Courtney. For Behold this is my work and my glory to bring to pass the emortality and eternal life of men. This is found in Moses chapter one verse thirty nine.

Give said the little stream, give oh give, give oh give, Give said the little stream as it quickly went down the hill. That was Sarah.

I'm Nicole. Twinkle Twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, like a dimond in the sky.... I'm Done.

Halloween was fun for whole Family!

We had a wonderful Halloween this year. We spent the day carving pumpkins, and getting ready. Courtney was a dinosaur, Nicole a strawberry ice cream cone, Kenny was a gift wrap bag, Sarah was a box of Crayons, Mommy a cat, Daddy a soldier (complete with Airsoft gun), and Auntie Mandy was a devil.
It was a windy night, but as a family , we went out knocking on doors. Mandy stayed at our house to give out the candy. We gave up after about 30 minutes, and decided to drive to Nana and Grandpa Moores.
We saw so many cars driving and droping off people last night. Most people drive from house to house here, giving the kids a break from walking from house to house, and making sure you hit all the houses of people you know.
Our family had a great time, and now have tons of candy to eat! Yumm!!

Halloween Girl Guide Party!

Mommy, Coutney and Sarah head out the the party. Nicole can't wait until she is old enough to go too!!!

Princess Camp for "Girl Guides"

The girls just received their papers and are so excited! The end of this month is a Girl Guide Princess Camp! Sarah, Courtney and Mommy will be going to spend the night in the senior Center Building. We will be crafting, eating, and sleeping princess. We will even be making our own costumes! They are so excited.!!

Daddy, will spend the evening and night with just Nicole and Kenny. Daddy is a little worried on how the night will be when Kenny awakes for his midnight snack. Hopefully he will be content with a cup of milk instead!

Good Luck Daddy! Your going to need it!!!

We have now come home from Girls camp! Everything was just fine! We all had so much fun!
Here is a picture of all the girls who came to camp. Courtney is on the bottom row, third from the right. Sarah is fourth from the left, standing in front of the queen.
We crafted, played, and ate. It was GREAT!

Thanksgiving Family Dinner

For Thanksgiving Sunday, our family went to Grandpa and Nana Moores House. It was a full table! Great-Grandma Moore was there, and Auntie Mandy, Uncle James, Nana and Grandpa (of Course), and then all of us. For a total of 11 People!

We ate turkey, cranberries, dressing, potatoes and vegetables. It was delicious! We also had homemade pumpkin pie Auntie Mandy made! Of Course mommy brought a very rich Chocolate Torte, and Apple Crisp. It was great to be together!

Holiday Monday we spent outside picking from the garden. We dug up tons of carrots, (to dehydrate), beets (to pickle), and potatoes ( to eat!). Next year we are going to build a fence around the garden to keep the dog out. She loved digging up the beets too!

It was great to do the family thing! I hope all of you enjoyed your thanksgiving too!

Playing in the Leaves!

Sarah and Courtney spend some time buried in a huge piles of leaves on Thanksgiving Monday. The temperature was 15 degrees, and felt wonderful. We worked hard as a family pulling up our potato's, carrots, and beets. Now we are having lots of fun! Thanks for raking up the pile Auntie Mandy!

Busy Busy Starting Again!

We have started back into our school year. It has been a very busy month. We are again homeschooling, and attending lots of activities!

Sarah is in grade two this year. She is doing well, and is very involved! She has Brownies on Mondays, Highland Dance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays is Library, Thursday is Sign Language class, and Saturdays is Piano lessons! Only Friday is empty, and mommy wants to keep it that way!

Courtney is in kindergarten this year. She is also doing well, and can already read and count very high! She is in Sparks on Monday nights, Library Wednesdays, and Sign class on Thursdays. She has a great memory for Sign Languge and knows MORE THEN 102 words!

Nicole also goes to Library and Sign with us. She is helping mommy teach Courtney her letters, and is loving to play with the dog! She now has glasses too!

Kenny is just over one and running everywhere! He doesn't have much to say, but I'm sure that will come in time. He does Sign "More" & "Food" and we are working on thirsty and clean.

Daddy is busy working lots. He is busy, but trying to get home with the family. He likes to play Airsoft in the dark, and is thinking of putting his garage to some use.

Mommy is trying to get back into the Pampered Chef. She is also working on becoming an official "Brownie Owl" (Leader). She has loved Sign class and is always trying to teach it to Daddy!

We are getting busy, but we are all happy (most of the time)!

Pioneer Day was a fun day. We wore costumes, and played games, and watched a parade. We even ate food and had a family dance. IT WAS GREAT!

Kenny Birthday Party!

We invited tons of people for Kenny's outdoor Birthday! Our Neighbours Brother Hovey and Dorothy Hovey, Friends, Jay and Colleen Barton with their four kids, Rod and Sherylnne Lowry with seven of their kids, Darcy and Shauna Holthe and their three kids, and Family Grandpa and Nana Moore, Uncle James, Aunt Mandy, and of course all of our Family. It was a full backyard for Kenny's 1st Birthday! September 2, 2005.

Blow out the Candle!

Kenny is ONE! Blow out your candles, and have a big outside party!

MISSY!

We are fencing in the yard for a reason. Our newest addition is the family. Meet Missy! She is about 4 1/2 Months, she is already house trained and was in need of a new home. Her previous family had to find her a new home, to make room for their new Hearing Dog!

We are cleaning out the yard. And building gates to completely fence in the yard. Daddy is packing all the branches into the trailer to take to the dump. This is the fifth load today!

LOOK OUT!

Courtney likes water, but would rather stay on the sand. Dirty, slimmy mud is more her thing! Look out! Mommy is sneaking up on you!

Kenny!

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Kenny HATES water! He screams at the pool, in the bath, and at the beach. But the sand isn't too bad. Maybe its safe here?!

Nicole at the Beach

Nicole is showing off how well she swims. What do you think! Keep trying!

Rides!

Three Girls on a Ferries Wheel! WEEE!

We visit Heritage Park. It takes us all day, and we still didn't see everything. We visited a fur trading fort, a school, many homes, and stores. We saw old toys, trains, cars, wagons, horses, paddle boats, and farm equiment. We even went on some really old rides.! It was a great day!

Camping in Calgary

We arrived at the campsite to learn that there is no firepits. With a quick trip to wallmart, we pick up a cookstove and come back to cook hotdogs, and corn. You can see our HUGE tent. It bigger then our VAN! Hopefully it is our last!

Packed Full!

Getting Ready to go Camping. We are completely packed with no room to spare! Courtney and Nicole in the back, Kenny and Sarah (& Spot) in the middle, and Mommy and Daddy in the front.

Fish

Camping!

Daddy had a few days of holiday left so we took the four days off, leading into the long labour day weekend.
We took advantage of this by coing camping in Calgary. We camped in our new (again) tent. (3rd tent this year).
More to follow.... I have Kennys cake to make, and the house to clean for his party tomorrow... I will post pictures of our holiday and his birthday monday!

Stay tuned!

September Birthdays

I know I am missing some... Please fill me in on the missing ones!

Sept 2 - Kenny Lynch is 1 year old.
Sept 12 - Ryan Robertson is 29 years old.
Sept 14 - Dave/Nikki Hicks has been together for 9 years.
Sept 22 - Jeffery Lee is 30 years old.

Lots of August Birthdays and Anniversaries!

Aug 2 - Mark Johnson is 26
Aug 2 - Jeff/Rachel Lee 5th Anniversary
Aug 3 - Mike Moore is 22
Aug 5 - Carrie Vanlingen Anniversary
Aug 12 - Shauna Holthe is 26
Aug 14 - Cassie Johnson is 6
Aug 16 - Deanne Ash is 9
Aug 17 - Ken/Tracy Lynch 9th Anniversary
Aug 22 - Paula Johnson is 27 (Mark's Wife)
Aug 22 - Kaitlin Johnson is 2
Aug 24 - Jackie Johnson is 25 (Gordies Wife)
Aug 27 - Julia Moore is 57
Aug 27 - Ross/Julia Moore 17th Anniversary
Aug 29 - Ann-Marie Lewis is 38
Aug 30 - Alicia Hamilton is 26

Summer is flying BY!

We had had such a busy summer this year! Visitors coming, swimming lessons, and next week we are taking some vacation time to go site seeing!

I am sorry to all you that are visiting the site often o see the updates. I hope to be more regular with posting our adventures in September, when we get into the school routine again!

Here are a few pictures.

Vulcun

This is a Visitors Center in the community of VULCUN. It looks like a space ship and is filled with anything imaginable from StarTrek.

This is Courtney, Kenny and Sarah.

Daddy had attempted to climb Chief Mountain this summer.

It is a very old mountain, that was here before the Rockies. When they formed, they came up and rolled this mountain over. So this Mountain is actually upside down. This is a holy place for the Indians still today. Unfortunately, it is also falling apart, and it had a massive piece slide off again this winter.

This is the last trip to climb it, because it has become so unstable.

I'm planning on climbing this???

Andrew stops and looks up the mountain, this is shale and very slippery. One foot forward, and slide two feet backward.