Category Archives: Family Happenings and Updates

All updates and activities for Jeff, Sherri, Margaret, Lizzie, Mary and Grandma!

Where we’ve been…

As it turns out, a delay in writing turns into a long delay in writing, and then what feels like a fresh start. I could drone on about all the things that have happened between the end of March and … Continue reading

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Shame on me!

I took a look at the date on my last post and am more than a bit sad that I haven’t sat down to fill in the gap with an update of some sort. Where did February and half of … Continue reading

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Hitting the Ground Running

Well, if you can believe it, our busy January schedule got busier with bonus tournaments and extra practices for Volleyball. Mary is fully exhausted already, dual-sporting her way through the month, and Lizzie and I are feeling like long-haul drivers … Continue reading

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It’s Christmas!

Well, how the heck that snuck up on us, I’ll never know. It’s something of a mystery how time speeds up as you age. Days, weeks, months and years disappear behind you and without this blog and a healthy dose … Continue reading

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Power moves and Pow days…

November has been an eventful month. We saw snow start falling at the end of October, and well it hasn’t really stopped. Our usual pattern of weather has some ups and downs this time of year, with a few warm … Continue reading

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And so it begins…

Tradition in our house is to watch White Christmas on the first snow fall of the year. When we lived in Langley, this was a challenge, since snow usually felt in the form of melted snow so you had to … Continue reading

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Joy and Sadness

It’s been a tumultuous few weeks since we moved in, buried in boxes and getting re-acquainted with life in Fernie. It’s not that we haven’t been here all along, but living here again has been a stress reliever that I … Continue reading

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High School Break-Up

We’ve been with our builder now for just over a year and now we’re breaking up. It is amicable, and they will be missed, but we agree – it is time. How ever will we fill our nights and days … Continue reading

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And that’s a wrap

How on earth did we blow through August? Summer is short around here, and this year, it feels like we had a couple of weeks of blistering heat wave and that was about it. After a cold wet start, we … Continue reading

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1.55 mile club

We’ve been diligently building some fun-tivity into our lives, having spent a great deal of it too busy with work and house work and sports for as long as I can remember. This summer, the girls started off by saying … Continue reading

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