Grandpa Santa comes to Visit on Christmas Day

Adrain Signing

Animal Photography

Sarah has decided she might want to be an animal photographer when she grows up. Here are some shots she took.

More Christmas Eve

New PJ's for Christmas Eve

Nanny and Poppy always has the kids open PJs for Christmas.... Here is the kids in the new Christmas Eve Outfits!

Lynch Christmas Program

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Adrian and Nicole Being Silly

Sledding at Mandy's

With a large snow fall, the parking lot next to Auntie Mandy's house was plowed into a large pile.

When the kids found out, they wanted to take their tabboogins out and give it a try. It was so much fun, that they wanted to go the next day and the next day.

No one else used the hill, so it was a perfect place to play together, have fun together, and build fun slides, ramps and stairs.

Night falls at Henderson in Lethbridge

 

 

 

Nicole found a cache

Nicole says " I was taching the tops of the Samant prking Briks and 1 was lose  I pold it and it had a geocach on it"

As night fell in Lethbridge, we decided to try and hit some of the more public caches, as there would be less "Muggles" around to worry about as we looked.

We arrived at a strip a secluded strip mall, parked the van lights facing the general area, and started looking.  Most often we have found caches in trees, attached to magnetic objects, and under bushes.

This cache was different, and Nicole was the first to spot it.  It was a strip of metal sitting loose in one of the holes of the concrete strips in a parking lot.

She pulled the metal rebar, and on the end, was attached a small silver buffalo tube!  She had found it!

We quickly wrote our family name, and Nicole hid it again.  

It was a great hide, and truthfully, I would never have thought to look there.

Caching in Cardston

We decided one day to go cacheing in cardston.  They have a series of caches that require you to hit four caches, to get the co-ordinates for the fifth cache. 
We thought we might be up for the challenge.  Unfortunitly we found three of the four, so we will have to try another day to find the last two.

We did get to find a Nano.  It is a very small cache!  Here is a pictures of one of the kids hands beside a bolt, and a nano cache.  We unscrewed the container, and unrolled the thin strip of paper inside.  We were excited to find something so small, and have since found two more nanos.

Another cache was hidden up on a hill, and the kids walked through the tall grass to get there, while the adults stuck to the shorter cut grass.  Courtney, Sarah, and Kenny are standing in the grass.

The whole point of these five caches is to stop and enjoy the view.  Here is one of the pictures we took overlooking cardston.

Printing Press Tour

One evening while we were caching for Family Home Evening in Lethbridge, we happened upon the Lethbridge Herald. We could see through the window and see people working on a printing press for the newspaper.  We stood and watched in amazement as they added metal sheets to a number of rollers.  We saw them spread ink in a trough, and feed the paper through. 

It was getting cold, and we were not sure how long it was going to be before they actually started the press, so we decided to it was time to head home.  Just as we turned to leave, a man with a camera came and introduced himself, and talked to us about printing, and the newspaper.  Before we knew it, the people down below in the window were motioning for us to come in.   So we got a tour!

The man was the sports writer for the paper, and took us through most of the rooms in the building.  We saw the place they bring in the giant rolls of paper, the press printing a weekly paper for another town, how they move the papers up and into the inserting room (inserting advertisements, stapling or other extras).  We saw where they store all the advertisments, and make calls to place ads in the paper.  He told us that they are unable to use the back half of the press, as it is sinking into the floor.  The cost of lifting it back up is too much.  He explained how little 4 color printing has changed over 100 years, but expressed that he doesn't think our grandchildren will ever see a printing press as technology is changing.

We had a wonderful tour, and was thankful that he would take some time out of his work day to show our family what happens to make a daily newspaper.

Snow

The blowing snow started yesterday evening,  but it looks beautiful in the morning. 

Mom might not be ready for winter, but us kids were excited and quickly dug out snow suits, mittens and hats.

We all wonder if it will stay for halloween on Saturday night.

Gone Fishin'

Click on the newspaper picture to see it bigger.

Painting Signs

Trying to get Mommy name out in the community, our family helped made some signs. Dad cut the old wood off of someones deck, then the kids painted the wood white, and filled in any knot holes. Then Mommy added her name.

We will see if mom gets voted in!