Halloween & Snowy Football Game

Halloween was on a Sunday, so the girls dressed up for school on Friday. Carly and her friends dressed up as fairies and Lucy and her friends as army women.

We had a pretty good snowstorm that day, but we went to watch the high school football game anyway. We wore our winter clothes and went to watch. It wasn't that bad because it was too cold and it wasn't windy. The Cougars won!

 

Canadian Thanksgiving

It has been our tradition while we have lived in Canada to go to Sarah's house on Thanksgiving. We usually have a football game in their field before we eat. This year Sarah invited any Gwilliam relatives that live in Canada to come. Then Alberta set some more restrictions from the fourth wave of covid outbreak, so only a few came. But we ended up having Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday instead of Thanksgiving Monday. So no football.

But we did enjoy a delicious meal. Austin's Uncle Ted and Aunt Annie came, and so did Uncle Scott, Aunt Helen and their daughter Heather.

Austin sat at the kids table and assigned everyone one of the dishes of food that came to the kids table that they had to finish. There was a lot of sweet potatoes that Kaden had to eat, but he did it. He may never eat sweet potatoes again. 

Grandma Nunn's pumpkin pies turned green when she baked them. The people who ate them said they tasted fine, despite their unappetizing look.

This is what Hanna posted she was thankful for on Thanksgiving!

 

Alberta High School Rodeo - Lucy & Carly

Have I mentioned how much Austin loves high school rodeo season? The girls all like it too. 

Lucy and Carly had some good rodeo runs and some not so good rodeo runs. 

There were still some covid restrictions, but not as bad as in the spring. We just had to wear masks when we were watching indoor rodeos.

Lucy and Carly both did well in goat tying, but not as successful this season in breakaway. Carly also did place in poles a few times. 

Austin had an idea for Lucy to compete in barrel racing by borrowing Traci Aipperspach's horse, Cover Girl. Traci was nice enough to haul her in a couple times and help Lucy practice. The first rodeo was pretty good. Then the next two Lucy had a little trouble at the first barrel. Then she started to get the hang of it. Her last run on Cover Girl she ran a 14.3 at the Cardston High School Rodeo, her best time ever. She was so happy/proud/sad that it was her last run on that horse - a few tears came.
 

Jill & Larsen's Baby Announcement

Jill and Larsen called us on Father's Day to tell us that Jill was pregnant and that they were expecting a baby in February. So exciting. And crazy that we are old enough to be grandparents.

Jill had to tell a few people pretty early that she was pregnant because she was not well. She was puking and puking. It is actually a good thing she didn't get pregnant until right after she graduated from college because it would have been tough to finish as sick as she was. 

She called her doctor and he sent a prescription for her, but when Larsen went to pick it up it was going to be $600 for one month and her insurance wasn't going to cover it. So they didn't get it. The next day the pharmacy called and told her that there were two over-the-counter things she could take that were basically the same ingredients. But one was a sleeping pill, which did not go good. It made her sleep restlessly and have terrible dreams.

I text our friend Eve Verdon, who is a midwife, and she gave us some tips. I called our doctor in Canada and asked how much it would for him to write a prescription of diclectin for her and I asked Sarah to ask her husband how much it would cost to buy the pills without insurance. The doctor said no problem and sent the prescription to the pharmacy. He sent a prescription for 300 pills and it cost $220.

So we took them down when went to see Jill, and it helped her a lot. 

They waited until they had their ultrasound and found out they were having a boy, and then they posted these cutest pictures announcing that they were having a baby!

Lucy has been a mission ever since to brainstorm baby names for them.

 

Jill & Larsen Visit Cardston

Jill and Larsen hadn't come to Cardston since their wedding reception. They finally got their second covid vaccine so they could come to Canada without having to quarantine. We were so excited for them to come, and plus we got to celebrate Jill's birthday with them and they got to come to a high school rodeo for Lucy and Carly.

 

25th Wedding Anniversary

 Two young kids fell in love, got married and all of a sudden 25 years had passed. We went on an anniversary getaway a couple weeks before our actual anniversary. We went to Fernie, British Columbia which is about 2 1/2 hours away. We went out to dinner and the funniest like steak house - run like a diner. They sat us at a table and then asked if they could move us because that was where Dave the customer usually sits, so we couldn't take his table. Then when each order was done, they just yelled out the server's name in a really screetchy voice. Then I asked for lemonade, and they took water, poured in lemon juice and a little bit of sugar. Too funny.

After dinner we went on a hike to Fairy Falls. We stayed in a resort in Fernie and then the next morning we went to the Fernie ski hill and rode the ski lift to the top of the mountain. We went hiking up on the mountain and then it started to rain. We were a bit wet by the time we got done, but it was fun.

On our actual anniversary, we pounded posts for a new fence that goes along our driveway. It may not seem that romantic, but I am sooo excited for that fence so we don't have to worry about opening/closing bars/gates/ropes/chains over both cattle guards on our driveway in the winter when they get filled up with snow and the horses get out.

Then Grandma Nunn invited us over for a hot dog roast since it is also Labor Day, and we decided to ride our horses to her house.