Happy Birthday Melvin!

Here are some pictures from our new house.

My Summer Vaca

Hello All,

You may ask what I have I been up to this summer? Well to tell you the truth I have been very efficient at waisting time. If you ever have this problem call me I will give you some tips. I guess this is what happens when you live alone and have no kids or husbands getting after you! So as I prepare to begin work again (I don't like to think about it) I have a few camp pictures for you to enjoy!

This was our attempt at Big 80's hair (my fellow councellors)

This is my camper dressed in her "What not to wear" gear-- good hey

Since no one has any news....

Elk Point Fun!

Hello All,
I think you should be getting excited about this weekend! I think all our money should be on Melvin and Kay to win the farm race! This is our year I can feel it!

All I can say is 3 more days of school and I am ready for a vacation-- I know Kay is ready 2.

See you this weekend-- I love Easthope family time!

Melissa

...and baby makes four

That's right. Get ready to be aunts and uncles again to someone who's arriving sometime early December. This is from Tara just in case it gets posted by Melissa. I haven't created my own account yet. Just trying to dispell any rumors.

May Long Weekend

Hey what is everyone doing for May long weekend? Is anyone planning on going home?

Could this be Jenn's new car???!!!

Could this be spencer's new car???

I Think We'll Keep This One Just the Way It Is

It's always nice having to get to the driver's seat through the passenger side door

Things to Keep in Mind:

First of all Jenn bought the car.....

Second the insurance company only gave us $2600 which can only mean one thing.....

Whoever guesses which car we bought first can have it for free (we'll stick to the bus thanks)

Plus we can't even pick the car up tomorrow because we have no way of getting there

Spencer bought a car?

Hey Spencer!!! Where is the picture of your new car, everyone wants to see it come on

Melvin's Wedding

Okay Okay here is some evidence that we did get married...

In other news, Spencer bought a car and is picking it up on Saturday he reports to work on Tuesday...

Easthope Family updates!

Hello All-- major things are occuring and they can not be found on the blog!!!
1. Spencer and Jennifer got in a car accident! I think we need to see some pictures!
2. Cooper gets an email address--- I think we all need to write!
3. Spencer gets a job!
4. Melvin got married-- or did he-- I haven't see any pictures. Sure he can put them on facebook but not on the blog!

I am sure there are more events that have taken place! Help keep the blog alive!!

Love, Melissa

Happy Birthday Aunt Melissa and Grandma!

Hey everyone,

Looks like we missed a good party. Did you two get what you wanted? So, just wondering, if Mom and Dad are coming to Lethbridge for Easter is anyone else coming too? You're totally welcome if you want to.

We don't have too much to say but we do have one good Cooper quote. We were out shopping and Brady was comparing height with Cooper. Obviously this is rediculous because Brady is 2 1/2 years younger than Cooper, so I suggested they wait until they're twenty and then compare. Cooper then said, "We won't even know each other by then!". Apparently we'll all be drifting apart later on so I guess we'll really have to live it up now. So much for families are forever.

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday to our Mom! Here she is on her wearing her favourite hat an Irwin Family Tradition!

And of course the Mom smile we have all grown to love!

I still have not figured out how add the Blog address to my favorite Webb list, so it will post it in the address field. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? To get on I have been using a email Melissa sent me, but when I posted it to my favorite list it will not put it in the address field. In my favorite list the address starts with a double flag looking symbol rather then an "e" symbol like my other favorite addresses.

Is there ever a time when I just understand how to do a computer thing??????

Dad/Blaine

Hi I finally figured out how to get here

Happy 30th Irwin!

Happy Birthday Irwin!! Hope you had a good day!

all good

Hey everyone,

Well, we don't have any fun pictures at the moment (or it's more like I'm too lazy to get one) but I thought I drop a few lines to "represent". Irwin's been fighting a cough for about two weeks, Cooper had a stomach ache last week, Brady is sick right now and slept all through church yesterday (a bit of a treat), and now Charlie's starting to get it. So it's been a good one and I'm washing everyone's sheets today.

Let's see, our ward started a rook tournament and we played our first game on Thursday, which we surprisingly won. Are you proud Melvin and Kay? We won't mention that the other team was about as experienced as us and we just happened to be ahead when we ran out of time. Personally, I think I pretty much carried us but don't tell Irwin. (A bit of a deer in the headlights that night)

The other day the laptop wasn't working and so after a little bit of tinkering I fixed it so the kids could play video games and Cooper informed me, "That was pretty smart...for a women". What a turkey!

Anyway, it's Irwin's 30th birthday tomorrow so give him a shout if you think about it, otherwise everything's good here.

Tara

Does anyone have better family picture than this for the blog?

Dad's Update

Man it is March the 1st already and it came in like a lamb around here. I got called in to teach Phys Ed this morning. Each class was scheduled to go cross country skiing. I have not ever tried that, so I had the kids stay in and play a tag game on the gymnastic equipment. I don’t know why I don’t try and cross country ski, as I am retired with all this time on my hands and the snow is multi inches deep everywhere. We also have the perfect place for it here right in our back yard. Sometimes you just don’t ever get around to doing something’s I guess. I was proud of myself I taught all three Grade Six classes and no one had to spend time in the hall. That is a tough bunch of kids to get them to try to do something’s. I did find out that many of the kids can sure run and jump. It is always good to see students do something outside of the classroom. I have the stage props all put together. I finished yesterday. I still have to do some touch up painting in several places. So Monday may be the end to that project. Five weeks is a long time to work at one project. Some of the actors say the walls are finished better then most of their houses. The set is two rooms of an upper English house that has 12 wallpaper panels on the three walls. It will be good to get back to my shop. As I haven’t worked out there much for the past five weeks the garage floor never gets dry from the snow melting off the van, as I don’t turn up the heat during the day. I guess I have saved a bundle of money on natural gas as I have not used much during the day. Tuesday I will start a cupboard for extended Care Hospital. We have had snow each day this week. My driveway is now so high along the edges that I can no longer see the neighbor’s yard as I back out. If we get more dumps in March, it could be a long melt in the spring. Well Melvin and Kay are back from Florida. They had a great time standing in line at the Airports trying to get home. Nothing like a four wait in a line at an airport. Maybe the slow pace of Alberta is not the bad after all. Oh well if you never fly anywhere then you don’t get to have that experience. Mary is in her new basement apartment. To bad that people still have to live in basements when many of us live in houses that are to big, like mine. Melissa as you know has started an Easthope Family Blog. I have not tried it yet, I guess I will have to get with it and learn the new technology. I thought Blogs were things other people did, but I guess I am part of it now. I don’t know any thing new about Aunt Karen I haven’t heard if Spencer found a job yet or not. Deanna had three lemons in the freg since Christmas, so tonight I peeled them and blended them into some lemon aid. My mother could sure make good lemon aid on a hot day. Well what can a person say about the Oilers, other then we are extremely disappointed. In fact I turned off the game Tuesday and I may not watch tonight. I don’t like Low’s trades. I am still waiting for someone to tell me how you can trade your best player and not get a top player back. Two guys that have never played in the NHL are just not good enough. Boy I expect attendance to drop starting tonight. I guess the money lost will probably equal the amount of money he wanted. My only problem is I don’t like to watch regular season baseball that has already started. There have been two real serous accidents of young people in the Oil Patch in the last two weeks here. One young man I taught a Krucik, a year younger then Melvin, a well blew up in his face and the other young man a chain broke and hit him in the head sitting in his truck. I am in the proof reading stage of my TempleReady Booklet. I hope to wind it up tomorrow. The parts are in for the lock for my van. So I hope to go to Vermillion and get them put on tomorrow. We will probably go on to Lloydminster for a fish feed at Joe’s only. Did you hear the new of the new roller coaster going in West Edmonton Mall. It is going to cover the whole park and work something like the big one. Well have a good week. I just can’t wait daylight saving time start three week early this year.

Wanna good laugh???

TESTING

It's all about the action shot

Dad's Weekly Update

Well back to -20 this morning with a good wind chill. I taught grade four French today and had to supervise the playground twice. It was all I could do to stand out there. The kids were running around so they don’t seem to have much trouble with the temperature and the wind. I have had my noise to the grind stone down at the Elk Hall building the props for the dinner theater. I hung the two double doors on Tuesday and then turned my attention to the base board, filling the nail holes and doing touch up painting. I thought I would have two pieces of wall paper on the twelve wallpaper panels by the end of today, but I spent the day at the school. So I still have all twelve panels to hang wallpaper on and put a wood trim frame around them. I still have three weeks before the first night of performance. It has taken me four weeks to date and I will probably be there another week. I have shop jobs backing up; I have a cupboard to build for extended care, poster paint drying rack for the Elementary School, two drill press jigs for Irwin and myself, a drum I was going to do several months ago. Well I guess the Oilers are moving onto next year. This has not been a good week point wise and they are eight points out of the play-offs. They will probably be selling off a few players before next Tuesday’s deadline. Melvin should be flying back from his honeymoon in the next couple of days. It may be a shock to come back to this cold weather. “We are off to the play the Producers tomorrow night at the Jubilee. I don’t know yet if we are going on the Choir Bus or taking our own van. The bus just takes to long as it goes by St Paul. The weather is supposed to be getting a little nasty over the next few days. The wedding went well and we even had Chicken and Noodles at Irwin’s as a family on Sunday. Aunt Karen is still struggling with her condition. I think most of us don’t really understand what the treatment for that is all about. We spent a few minutes with her on Saturday. I have made some progress with my writing of the TempleReady Program How to use TempleReady. I am up to level 3 now and have to move on to level six. So I have a ways to go yet. Well have a good week Blaine/Dad

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