Bullet Journal for 2018

I'm so excited about 2018. Not that I have any big things planned - but I am going to use a bullet journal this year! For years I used a Franklin Covey planner. I still have guilt over not using it - but I found I had to go electronic. I've loved it. I do still miss paper though so every year I try to keep a journal in a planner type book. That's where I write all the stuff I don't want to put publicly out on my blog. :)

I've struggled to find something I love as much as a Franklin Covey planner. I think I finally have it! This year I'm going to use a bullet journal! I've been looking at blogs online for page ideas and I'm really excited. There's something about paper, journals and nice pens.

Christmas 2017

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was relaxing and quiet and great for my soul.

Jill had to leave the evening of Christmas Eve to work so we got up on Christmas Eve and pretended that it was Christmas morning. We actually only planned to open some of the presents so that we could do it again on the actual Christmas morning, but apparently, once that train gets going it is hard to stop. We opened them all and it was great.

 Christmas Eve morning was lit. :) 

 I made a breakfast casserole for the morning. It was a big hit!

This was one of Peirce's snaps from the day. It shows some of his presents: a penny board, cologne, new shoes and a smart watch.

Then, we got the next great gift: One hour of church. One hour felt like we hardly got started - but we happily accepted it. The best part was that I got to play the organ. One of the hymns the choir sang with the congregation and while I played the organ Andrew Hawryluk fancied it up by adding some piano. It was wonderful for my soul!

Dinner was great. I didn't make gravy though. I should have made gravy.

Our actual Christmas Day was pretty quiet - and pretty wonderful.

New Car!

We drove to Edmonton today and bought a new car. It was really a long day for Allen. However, Edmonton was a way better option than some of the other places he found great cars.

It was too cold to get out and take a good picture. This will have to do. It also demonstrates how much I care about cars.

I just want him to be happy with his new car!

Taylor's Wedding

We got up bright and early today and headed for Sparwood. Luckily, the roads were great:





Can't go to Fernie without going to Bang Bagels!


15 cm rule....only in Fernie!



The wedding had a movie theme. Cute posters!







The wedding was in the Fernie Theatre!




He has a lot of nieces and nephews!





Renee and Steve were the MCs. They did a great job.


McNuggets?!




Shelbi was the photographer



The fam jam:

Cookies

I took a class to learn to make fancy cookies. When Gaylene saw them she asked if I'd make cookies for Taylor's wedding. Apparently, I still need more classes. I couldn't get the fancy stuff's consistency right so I did regular sugar cookies with butter icing...miles and miles of cookies!





And when I got tired of icing I made snickerdoodles:



Tomorrow is the wedding!

UFC!

Jill is staying in a hotel in Winnipeg and there is a UFC fight there this weekend. The athletes are staying in her hotel!



Apparently the weather hasn't been great. Most people aren't happy when their flight gets cancelled. She isn't one of those people!

I'm With the Scorekeeper

Peirce did the scorekeeping for volleyball this year at Aberhart. He is also doing basketball now. I love watching basketball, so I'm always happy to go. Tonight they played Western and it was a great game!

The boys that were playing tonight are the same ones that Bobby played with so there were a bunch of moms there that I got to know when he played. I had some funny conversations:

Them: Nice to see you again! Which one is your son?
Me: I'm here to watch the scorekeeper.



This morning we had a fun seminary day. It was a doctrinal mastery review day so I suggested we have all the classes together. We played battleship. It was pretty fun. Only thing was I forgot to take a picture! Argh!

Curling!

Peirce decided to join the curling team. It's a steep learning curve! He gets to play at the Winter Club. Win!

Jill - gone to Frankfurt

Today Jill spent time in Frankfurt!


Their flight was delayed three hours because of snow. I guess it doesn't snow much there if this sprinkling causes delays like that!



We haven't had time to put up Christmas decorations yet - so we decorated Chico. He wasn't very impressed.