Posts from — September 2010

This week we headed to Princeton to look after the grand-kids while Mom & Dad headed off to Penticton to celebrate their 1st Anniversary. So, congrats to Kevin and Tamara on their  1st Anniversary…… the year has flown by and it won’t be long till you are off on your official honeymoon trip.

Another 1st this month has been Sage’s 1st year in Kindergarten. Yes, that’s correct our little Sage is already going to school. The first week of school was just for a couple hours as they got to meet the other kids and got to know the teacher. However as we left on Monday morning to return to Kamloops Tamara was busy racing Sage off to catch the bus and attend Kindergarten for the whole day. Hard to believe for a 4 1/2 year old. As well, Conrad is attending pre-school so he is busy from 9 – 11:30 a.m. and he is really excited about his first time at school and all the activities/crafts that come with it.

The attached pictures were provided by Tamara from their first week. Aren’t they the cutest?

Today Brenda and I went golfing at Pineridge Golf Course. We received free 18 hole passes from the good folks at Wine Kitz the last time bottled wine and decided today was a good day to use them.

Our tee time was 10:15 a.m. and our round started out pretty average; Brenda was doing very well for only golfing once or twice per year and I was shooting a couple over par when we got to the 7th hole.

The 7th hole is a short par 3 (85 yds) so I took a Gap Wedge (53 deg) and put a great swing on the club and made great contact; the ball flew almost straight at the pin, it landed short, took one hop then spun slightly sideways and fell in the cup. It was so surreal to see it happen and then we “high fived” – “hooted and hollered” and did our own private celebration. It was great to have Brenda there to see it……….. we never ever imagined that this would happen when we were golfing together.

The pro shop at Pineridge Golf recorded the date, hole, club selection and gave me a nice hat pin that is a “#1”. See picture attached.

Well It’s About Time…. or at least that’s what we think most people will say/think when they discover that we have finally done an update to our blog.

The ‘Readers Digest” version is as follows. Since Sage and Conrad visited the following are events from our busy retirement life: I played in a seniors golf tournament in Cache Creek; we had our grand-cat visit for one week while her parents were off to Toronto for a conference; our good friends Rick and Gayle and daughter Jeanine (who is expecting) came over for dinner; we went to Kelowna for a quick weekend visit; the Rube Band played a concert in the park; we had a coffee and visit with my cousin Trudi and her husband Norman from Victoria  along with my sister from Sechelt Donna, sister Lynda from Kamloops and Nieces Tricia and Lynette – it was great to reconnect; we were off to Princeton to get in a much needed grand-kid fix plus I was spoiled with a 57th birthday celebration by Tamara, Kevin and Brenda, we visited our good friends the Smith family in North Vancouver, we were able to get in many enjoyable bike rides (note: the hills back up to our house are getting easier – honest); we attended our Annual Friends Reunion – year # 31; this was hosted by Judy and Dean –  we visited Barkerville and stayed at Judy & Dean’s estate/mansion on the North Nechako River in Prince George; and finally at the end of August Jeff and Lindsay came for an Ultimate Tournament and they stayed over an extra day to make Salsa. 

So it’s been a busy and fast summer…… where has it gone. The pictures are in no real specific order and they are random.

Shuswap Lake Park

Visit to Lynn Valley Canyon in North Vancouver

With our Niece Sabrina at Second Cup Coffee