Grandma-Brennan night

Tonight Wil's quartet sang in Shipshewana at a small Fall Crafters Fair. Since Monica is gone this weekend I thought Brennan may enjoy going with me to Shipshe. On the way up I was telling him that we were going to listen to the Quartet that Papaw sings in. "Quartet! that's 4 people and Quintet is 5 people, did you know that Grandma?" Yes, I did know that, but how do you know that? "Oh, I learned it on Max and Ruby."

The little restaurant was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of people that were there ordering food so Brennan and I decided to go elsewhere to eat. When we were ready to leave Brennan yelled, "goodbye Papaw" in between their songs. The people sitting around got a bang out of that.

We decided to go eat at the Chicago Pizza place. On the way home he asked if tomorrow was Sunday and I said no it was Saturday. "Oh, then we don't go to church if it's Saturday." No we don't, but Auntie Melissa does. "Is her church Amish or something?" Later when he was talking to Isaiah on the phone, I heard him ask Isaiah if Auntie Melissa's church was like Amish.

Happy 1st Birthday Sawyer

Scary

Monica: Brennan, you do not throw those dominoes! Now go pick them up, right now.

Brennan: (putting off obeying) But Mommy, you really scared me.

Grandma:(thinking-right you were scared)
Grandma:(trying not to smile and wondering what he will come up with next)

One year old Sawyer

It is hard to believe Sawyer is already ONE! He is such a delightful little guy, always smiling and so full of hugs. His birthday was October 1st and they will have his party on Sunday. I was so excited when I got home from work today and discovered he was walking on his own without us pressuring him to take steps. Today Matt and Monica went to a wedding so Wil got to stay with the boys for about 45 minutes before I got home from work. Later when Sawyer took a big dump in his diaper, Wil thanked him for holding off that dump until Grandma came home.

Wii Fit

Vacation is over and we are back to our routine schedule. Brennan has been coming over whenever possible to make up for all the time he missed out on while we were gone. He really missed not being able to play the wii during the time our floor was being done then also while we were in Canada. He will work out running anywhere from 15-20 minutes at a time. Each segment is 5 minutes. He loves to do it because he always gets all the stars after he is done and they tell him what a great job he has done.

35th Anniversary

Here are just a few of our 35th Anniversary pictures.




Hike to Larch Valley




Hike to Stewart Canyon






At Lake Louise

Taken just before our Ice Walk on the Glacier that you see behind us.




Taken on our last hike at Lake Minnewanka

Scenery on the way to the Glacier Hike

We have way more awesome scenery pictures than we can begin to show you right now.

Elk-Sheep

These Long Horn Sheep were right on the edge of the mountain and on the road.
Norm is quite sad that we haven't seen any Bear yet.

Ice Glacier Hike

We had the awesome experience of hiking on the Ice Glaciers yesterday! It was a bit scary in the beginning. Everyone was much younger than us but we all thought it was an experience of a lifetime. Our guide whose name was Peter was very funny and did a great job leading us along with his dog, George.

Thursday-Canadian Rockies

This morning we messed around at home, got groceries and so on. At noon we started our hike up to Larch Valley. Another rather strenuous 4-5 mile hike, but the scenery and views were amazing. Rapid heart rates going uphill and sore knees and muscles going back down. I don't have todays pictures downloaded yet. We did see some Elk on the way back and also soaked in the Sulphur Hot Springs Pool.