PHOTO DUMP!!!

Wade re-lives the head scar event in Co-op Lloydminster

Kansas had a bought with some nasty reaction that came and went 

Macie's Baptism

its a great day to do nothing

Wades 6th Birthday

Selling Home Made Cider 

Singing O Canada at the Hurricanes game

Kansas gearing up for skiing

one last look at our Cold Lake house

Good Bye Cold Lake

Children being obedient and reading scriptures

Miss Miller Wades Grade 1 teacher 

Kansas Being Cute

TOO FUNNY NOT TO SHARE

I love to see the Temple

Today was a beautiful day. The weather was amazing and the temple was even more so. 

We met the Skoien's for the 4:30 session in which Hakon had a name for me to take through. After we completed the session, we were ask to do some sealings. It was the reason we went so early. Several families were sealed for time and eternity today. It was wonderful feeling to be apart of that. The welding together of families. 

The great plan of salvation in action. 

We give thanks To God for the greatest blessings that can come to families through service in the temple. 

Macies Baptism

To expand a little bit more on our sweet Macie's baptism as it was glossed over pretty fast. 

Macie turned 8 on December 20, 2019. 

She had a desire to be baptized. She met with the Bishop and decided to join the Lords church. She had been trying hard to do what is right since she was little. 

This was her next step. 

Her baptism was scheduled for Dec 22, 2019. This was a Sunday. We did it after church. The bishop presided and brother Dahl conducted. 

Macie picked the speakers and the songs. She wore her mother's baptismal dress, and looked beautiful. 

Her Uncle Danny gave a talk on baptism. He shared an experiment with clean water and put dye in it then purified the water with bleach. This symbolizes our body and how over time we make choices that contaminant our bodies, but when we are baptized we are cleaned. And can be clean each week with the Sacrament. 

Her dad baptized her and felt a great love for her and the gospel. He felt so much joy that it was difficult to speak. 

Auntie Terra and Auntie Corrine witnessed the baptism. 

Macies cousin Annika (Sister Shipley) shared her testimony via Skype as she was serving her mission in Virginia. 

Uncle Ryan gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. 

He talked about the wonder gift it is in our life. He shared an experience when the spirit lead him to change his behaviour while driving which saved his life. 

He gave Macie several gifts to help remember the gifts of the spirit. 

Life saver Candy

Blanket

Flashlight

To name a few. 

Then her dad laid his hands on her head to give her the gift of the Holy Ghost. Again he was filled with joy and had trouble speaking. 

After the session was done we had a family dinner at the church. 

Many family members attended. It was pulled pork, veggies, fruits, chips, salads We also enjoyed your birthday cake made by Auntie Corrine. 

We missed 

Uncle Trent and family

Auntie Keltie

Uncle Dave and family

Uncle Perry 

Auntie Betty and family. 

It was a wonderful way to spend with family right around the holidays. 

SOLD!!!

Its official. On February 25, 2020 our Cold Lake home sold! After lots of faith and prayers, fasting, the Lord heard our plea. I believe he was slow to hear our cries as we did not listen to His council not to buy in Cold Lake but to Rent only. We are grateful that He had compassion on us and allowed us to close that part of our history. Now we look forward to the future, and hope to heed the Lords council every time he offers it.

It was also neat that the gift was given on Dads Birthday.
 

A little History for my Posterity

Not knowing what the future holds, but seeing how crazy the media is pushing climate alarmist religion on society, it is imperative to share some lesser known history to help keep my posterity from joining in on the hysteria.  Currently the world is pushing us in to despair over less than 1C of temperature increase. Some advocates have even claimed the end of the human race by 2030. Well there have been may climate prophecies since the 1970s, which all have proven to be false, yet they keep on making outlandish claims and people keep believing it.

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is_ NOT MY KIDS
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy_ STILL EATING LIKE A PIG
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018_ STILL HAS SOME
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World- PAST THAT ONE
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014  HAHAHAHAHA  
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 STILL HAVE SOME
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’  HAHAHAHAHA
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources STILL HAVE SOME
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years HAHAHAHA
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years: NOPE
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s  NOPE
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 NOPE
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes! INFACT THERE WERE A RECORD NUMBER OF NO HURRICANES
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985  HAHAHAHA NOPE
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees! 

To aid in an understanding of the planet,
1st know that God knew what he was doing when the earth was organized.
2nd, we have been commanded as Humans to be wise stewards over the earth, to till and maintain it.
3rd the earth as we know it will last as long and it is needed to serve the purposes of the Lord.

Now for some amazing history

In the 1930's a group of pioneers from Glenwood made up their minds to travel north to the Cold Lake area because their crops failed twice. Once by a late spring Snow fall and 2nd by a swarm of grass hoppers. This tells me that it got really hot over the summer after a late spring snow fall and frost. That is quite a few months of climate change. They left for Cold lake and learned that a massive fire had passed through the area and was so big that it burned from the Alberta/ Saskatchewan border all the way to the Saskatchewan/ Manitoba boarder. There were little to no news organizations or social media that made this out to be the end of the world. Unlike the Australia and California fires, this fire was only known to these settlers after they arrived. The fire was so hot that it destroyed the top soil and left sand in its wake. Now only a thin layer of top soil covers most of the area where any crops are grown. Think about the devastation of such a fire. Why isn't it talked about? I only know from a journal record left by those pioneers.

This other event took place in 1815 in the Dutch East Indies. In early April a volcano erupted that was so massive, the effects of the ash and soot in the air were felt around the globe. On the island where this happened, in some areas 2 feet of ash were heaped up. It was called the year of no summer. Temperatures dropped around the globe a few degrees. Growing food was impossible which resulted in wide spread famines and diseases. In the evenings, the sun would show some marvelous colors.

(Mount Tambora is on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies.^[2] Although its eruption reached a violent climax on 10 April 1815,^[3] increased steaming and small phreatic eruptions occurred during the next six months to three years. The ash from the eruption column dispersed around the world and lowered global temperatures in an event sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer in 1816.^[4] This brief period of significant climate change triggered extreme weather and harvest failures-in many areas around the world. Several climate forcings coincided and interacted in a systematic manner that has not been observed after any other large volcanic eruption since the early Stone Age. taken from Wikipedia.  

as an update this just in from latest study. Lets keep our eyes on this one. For the most part I am excited
For each degree of global mean temperature increase, Alberta could expect:
A 2 C increase in average winter and a 1.5 C increase in average summer temperature.
An increase of about 3 C in the temperature of the coldest day of the year and an increase of about 2 C in the temperature of the warmest day of the year.
A two-week lengthening of the frost-free season, and between a two- to four-week lengthening of the growing season, with greater changes for more southern locations.
A five to 10 per cent increase in precipitation between September and April, with between five to 10 per cent more falling as rain compared to snow.
A 50 per cent increase in the number of very wet days (more than 25mm in 24 hours) and a 20 per cent increase the amount of precipitation on the wettest day of the year.
Proportional decreases in heating degree-days and increases in growing degree-days and other cumulative heating indices.
Hayhoe said there is some uncertainty surrounding projections due to the natural variability of the climate, but that the biggest uncertainty revolves around what action humans decide to take to tackle the issue.
“We are the ones who are driving this change for the first time in the history of the planet,” she said in an interview from Lubbock, Texas. “It isn't volcanoes. It isn't natural cycles. It isn't the sun.

One last Trip North

What an amazing week. 

We had a scheduled surgery for Macie in Lloydminster, but it fell through in the last week but we had booked a hotel that was non refundable so we decided to go for it. 

We could have some fun in a hotel and then Cruze up to cold lake and check on our house. 

When we were almost in Lloyd we got a call from our realtor who had someone put an offer on our house. We eventually accepted the offer and hope all conditions can be worked out this week. 

The buyer would take possession March 25, 2020. 

What wonderful news. 

We made it to the hotel and had a blast in the swimming pool. It had a really fast slide and a hot tub.

We ate at our favourite places, Tasty K’s and Spiro’s. Man those are some good eatings.

We headed up Friday to Cold Lake and got our house back up and running.

Turned the hot water tank back on, plugged in the fridge and connected front room fire place. 

Unfortunately, our sewer line froze up and we backed up the pipes a bit. However, a call to the city and we were flowing again. They showed up with a steamer and heated things up for us. 

We had to do a bit of raw sewage clean up in the basement :(  but it could have been a lot worse. Only a few nasties.

We enjoyed a lot of time with close friends the Ellis family. They fed us well for 3 dinners.

Twas really cold weekend up there. That made us appreciate the mild southern Alberta weather a lot. Had to warm up the vehicle many times before departures. 

Sunday was nice to go to church in Cherry Grove and see some familiar friendly faces. Lots of wonderful folks who are so kind and loving.

Monday morning we packed up and Cleaned the house one final time. We borrowed a vacuum and hit all the floors, cleaned bathrooms and shovelled some snow. 

We were on the road by 830. We had to make a visit with another family that moved from Cold lake to Lacombe. We got to Lacombe early afternoon and enjoyed a good visit with our friends the Lowrys. Even won the game pandemic for the first time as a group. Kids were so happy to get out of the car and play. They shared valentines with each other. Which was very cute.

We had to make one more stop in Red Deer to visit with our good friends the Kents. A sweet couple we met in Lloyd. They moved to Rocky  Mt house. We ate dinner with them at Montana’s and enjoyed a great catch up session.  

Making the trip north this weekend was nice, but visiting friends was priceless.  These folks have been important parts of our lives.  It goes to show you that what really matters are people. Not the stuff. It’s people.

Past Few Months Clean up

Where the heck have we been. There has been a lot of changes in our life. Since we left off, We have to go back to October 2019.
First off Big congrats to Macie and Wade for getting Awards at school before they left.

Pretty Awesome Kids

One of our favourite places in Cold Lake is the provincial park. Below are some time lapse photos from2016 and now. 

In early September we bought a house in Magrath Alberta.

Bye Cold Lake. 

Our Cold Lake House has not sold yet. 

Our new house is simple and very satisfying. The back yard is huge and comes with a few fruit trees that we look forward to picking next September.

Our new home

Back Yard

Why not move were we vacation? So now dad travels to Calgary to fly to Jackfish.

Plane daddy takes to work

We moved Oct 10, 2019 with a huge trailer to house all Dads Junk.

The move went fairly smooth. It was a very long few days. Packing, cleaning, driving, and unpacking. We Left Cold lake after 9 pm after long day for dad to drive from a Calgary conference he was at back to Cold lake, all the whole mom was trying to get the last items packed up in preparation for the moving truck to show up. Mom and dad were exhausted. But we cleaned the house and left for Magrath. We got to Killam and stayed in a hotel. Drove the rest of the way the very next day. The truck arrived very late but some helpers managed to wait long enough to help us unpack.

The house only had 3 bedrooms so that meant that Wade was living in with mom and dad until dad could get his room done.

             

Wades room adjacent to furnace room

Wades Room in the making

Work on the basement commenced as soon as possible, building walls, putting up drywall, muding, taping, painting, laying floor, installing doors, and finally putting up base boards and trim. As of December 24, Wade had his own bedroom. A big shout out to Grandpa D for his time spent on the floor with dad, installing flooring. He also helped with trim and doors.

                  

Macie's Updated Room 

                

Wades New room 

I neglected to mention that the kids really enjoyed themselves this Halloween.Not only did they get some sweet costumes, but they also got to trick or treat with their cousin Grady.

Lady Bug (Macie) Billy the Kid (Grady) Cat Noir (Wade)

Cute little Mine Mouse

                 

Kansas' alternate costume (peppa pig)

Macie, yes the little girl in all the past posts turned 8 and was baptized on December 22 in Magrath with family their to share in her coming of age. It was a very special time, as family members came that we have it seen in a long time.
Both Mom and Dads family came out. It was amazing to get together so soon before Christmas and enjoy a little meal and feel the spirit.

Mom started a new job in Lethbridge at a place called Visual Effects. She works twice a week and is really enjoying working there.

The kids have enjoyed spending time with Grandma and cousins as they only live a block away. We have tried to make time to watch our young nieces sports game. Macie is enjoying watching her older cousins.

Macie and Grady were in the school Christmas concert together.

Wade and Ms Miller

Wade and Ty M

The weather down south is so different from Cold Lake. We have to access both Winter and Spring gear as one day its spring weather and the next is winter.

hiking out by the golf course

Kansas saying" its a great day to do nothing"

For christmas we got a real christmas tree and got to have a little visit with Mr and Mrs Clause at the festival of lights in Coaldale.