My Life For a Year: April 2014

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sarah Smith

Last night I went to listen to Sarah Smith, this lady has one
of the most remarkable voices I have ever heard, I even
got people bumps. ;-) Sarah's not only a talented singer,

she's personality plus and vibrantly alive!

It was a joy and honor to meet such a talented lady and I hope
to see her when she's back this way in August performing at one
of our festivals.

Here's a link into one of her fantastic songs:
Shining Bright

Sarah suggested I bring my camera next time,

I'm going to be all over that!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Busy and Blessed Weekend

I sit here tonight tired, but not too tired to post. I've been

missing my blog and all of you wonderful people, but
sometimes life is just like that.

This weekend it's been a fantastic fun filled
weekend. Friday night I went to listen to one of my

favorite entertainers...

Jimmy Whiffen

After a late night and some fantastic music I was

still up early Saturday morning, I wanted to bake a

gluten free cake and this is the first time I've ever

attempted this so I wasn't sure how many cakes

I'd be making til I got it right. First try it seemed

to be alright, I learned gluten free cake mixes

don't rise as high as a regular cake, so I added

chocolate pudding in the center and no problem,

it seemed to work.

The cake was for a birthday dinner, both my oldest

son and his wife have April birthdays and this was the

earliest date we were all available to go out to

dinner, which was a fantastic dinner!

Shayne and Sandy Happy Belated Birthday!

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Nothing Typical Here

Today we had our Easter dinner, not the big huge

turkey dinner as only two of my children could make

it over. But was our dinner ever scrumptious...

I even broke out the fine china and

clean-up was a breeze AND

for dessert I baked a cake.

Yup, nothing typical here this Easter and now

I'm thinking more Easter dinners might look like this.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

And that's a wrap

I'm so glad I'm finally done this semester, it was a challenge

to get through this one, but it's a done deal and I'm now exactly

half way to the Masters Degree. A bit of a break and I'll hit the

ground running when I start my practicum placement on

May 5th, the only way to learn is to roll up the sleeves and

just do it! With losing my photos here I'm posting one that Elyssa
took of me, she figured out how to use my phone camera and
now payback time for all the photos I've shot of her!

And wouldn't you just know it,

we got more snow, just in time for

the Easter bunny! lol

Wishing you all a Merry Easter! :-)

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Field Trip

Not only was Elyssa looking forward to her field-trip today,

I was as well. I was up bright and early and met up at the daycare

to board a bus with the wee ones and off we went to the Royal

Albert Museum. There's a lot to take in there, naturally the

children loved seeing the various bugs and there was Elyssa counting

some type of huge yellow beetles to see just how many

there were.

The next stop was the dinosaur area. We saw all sorts

of dinosaurs, some old bones and even some skulls.

We got to see animals of Alberta, Elyssa was

pointing out the bird in this display.

And we even got to play for a while; Elyssa

dressed up as a dinosaur, put on some special

footwear which would help her to make dinosaur

tracks in the sand.

It was such a fun time to go out with Elyssa

on her field-trip and I look forward to more

adventures with my precious granddaughter!

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Challenger

My son Derek went out yesterday and picked up his

new car. Sweet ride!

I checked out the car, sat in the luxurious

driver's seat and couldn't even see over

the dash! Sure I could have adjusted the

seat, taken off for a ride, but I'll wait for the

opportunity to drive this beautiful car

out on the open highway and we'll see

just how worried I should be, or how worried

my son should be when I borrow his car! ;-)

Congratulations on the new car Derek,

I'm proud of you my boy!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

A Positive Sign

I love waking up in the morning and listening to

the birds chirping. Finally after a long, cold winter

I've been waking to the sweet sound of S.....

it's a wee bit too early to say the S word,

don't want to jinx our warm weather, but the

chirping I hear is a positive sign

... we just may have

entered construction season.

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