Sweet 16 - Lucy's Birthday

What do you do to celebrate a 16th Birthday on a Sunday during a pandemic?

We started her birthday celebration on Friday and invited her friends to meet us near Waterton on Chief Mountain Highway to take some friend pictures. I asked Taneal Olsen to do Lucy's hair. We totally lucked out on weather in January - sunny, 3 C / 37 F with no wind. It was actually -6C in Cardston when we left home, but it was warmer in Waterton. It was still chilly, but as good as it can get in January.

Her friends looked so cute as they met us up there. Dana Schaffer, Kamree's mom, was our photographer. Friends that came: Taylor Heninger, Kamree Schaffer, Brooke Hardy, Skylie Holland, Allie Leishman, Hallie Pilling, Alyssa Bevans, Raygan Norton

On Saturday Lucy had a few friends over to hang out by our fire. The current pandemic restrictions are that you can have gatherings outside with only 10 people. Another weather blessing for a short time by the fire - it could have been so much colder or snowier.

On Sunday, we had sticky buns, bacon and chocolate milk for birthday breakfast. 

Then we got to watch Hanna give a talk in her Spanish ward. She did such a good job. This is definitely one of the blessings of the pandemic is that everything is on broadcast on zoom so we can watch things like this.

We grilled steak and had twice baked potatoes and skor cake for Lucy's birthday dinner with Grandpa & Grandma.

Hanna gets to call on birthdays, so waited until Hanna could call to open presents. 

Lucy's theme of birthday gifts was shirts - from me, Jill and Grandma Carol. We also gave her a backpack.

Happy birthday to Lucy - on to driving and dating!!!

 

January 2021

January events:

- Grandpa and Grandma Nunn celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Gatherings of any kind are prohibited because of the pandemic, so we had a drive by celebration. We were under a wind warning that day (of course Alberta had wind), so we had them sit on a porch at Mel and Kim Weston's house and people drove by to say hi. When we told Grandma the idea she said she was digesting the idea and then she pretty much said no, we are okay, we don't need that. Grandpa was for it, and we decided to do it anyway. 17 cars came with their friends - they felt loved. It was the perfect amount.

- New puppy Stella (from Heather Schmitke with the goal of training her as a cowdog)

-Lucy came upstairs ready for church in her new dress she had gotten for Christmas and she said, "Who am I?" Definitely Hanna's look alike.

-Restaurants aren't allowed to have people come in to eat, but they can do pick up, so we ordered dinner and drove to Twin Butte to a cute little restaurant and ordered Mexican food and drove to a look out and parked next to Grandma and Grandpa and rolled down our windows and ate dinner together. 

New car (new to us, Bonnie the blue Ford Escape. We sold Hanna's black pontiac grand prix and bought the escape instead. We will drive it until she gets back)