Tommy's Talk

Tommy gave a talk in primary on sunday. He did such a good job, he stood up and read it only stumbling a few words. I think opportunities for our kids to speak in front of a group are so great! It teaches them confidence and prepares them for speaking as an adult. Here is his talk.

A few weeks ago, my sister Kyla burned her hands on the fireplace at home. It was really scary for my family. But it was mostly scary for me because I love me sister so much. I knew that if I said a prayer, that Heavenly Father would protect her, so I did. When we got to the hospital the doctor said we did the right thing and her hands would be better in a few weeks.

D&C 88:126 "Pray always, that ye may not faint, until I come. Behold, and lo, I will come quickly, and receive you unto myself. Amen."

I know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers. I am glad that I can pray for help when I am scared or sad. I know that Heavenly Father loves me, and helps me.
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Slow Photo Upload Issues... ARGH...

You probably wonder where my blogging has gone... well, I think my computer has developed a fear of uploading photos! Because it is so slow, and then it pops up as error! Who knows. Anyway... We've been busy.... Here are some highlights w/o photos!

-We went to the zoo (when Tommy was out of town) and I will say it was the only time I will ever be glad he was not there. The giraffes were mating, or the male was trying to. I have never seen that exhibit so full of people! Glad I didn't have to explain that one to Tommy!

-Cousins from Vegas moved up here! We have had them over a lot. We love having them here to stay!!!

-Had Tommy`s birthday party... FINALLY! It was fun. We had a pizza party and the kids played games like; dodge ball.

-One of our golf courses, Silverwing Links, is opening on Thursday for the season. Boulder creek opens next week. We have been busy getting it ready. We are doing free golf for a whole month with donations to United Way! BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!

-I started on a new Unit. Internal Medicine. Unit 93 at the Rockyview.

Hopefully I can get this photo upload figured out and you can see pics! and yes, I have giraffe pics!!

:)

Aggie Days...

On saturday I took the kids to Aggie Days. We got free tickets last week when we were at our booth at the Golf Show. Aggie Days is so fun, here are some of the things we did.
There were tons of farm equipment to play on. Tommy was in Heaven! He had to sit in ever single one. I think there were 50 or more!

This race car was really cool! It is run completely on Canola Oil!! It can go up to 200 MPH. I asked how much it would cost per Litre, if we were to use it on all cars. He said about 2.00 per Litre! I think I will stick with the old fashion stuff :)


They got to look at lots of different animals. Baby chicks, ducks, geese, and the one in the picture is a baby turkey. They also saw, cows, calves, pigs, sheep, dogs and horses. We also saw this bee conoly and the man pointed out the queen to us. Kyla LOVES the animals. She makes little sounds at them.

This is Bessy. Tommy thought it was pretty fun to milk her, but I think it would have been better if it were a REAL cow!!! There was liquid in the fake udders that squirted out when you squeezed it. I remember getting to milk a real cow when I was little. You NEVER forget handling those UDDERS!
There was a station where they let the kids help MAKE a rope! Tommy actually helps spin it into a rope! SO COOL!
This chair was made out of 100% recycled cardboard. It was really durable. It held my weight just fine! Kind-of a fun concept for a playroom! They let tommy write his name on it :)

I didn't get a picture, but at the milk station they gave us a container and put heavy cream in it. They told us to shake it for about 10 min, then bring it back for a prize. How fun is that? Making our own butter! The prize was kinda lame... but they wouldn't let us keep the butter :( Tommy thought is was pretty cool though, and educational!

We saw the stock dog competition and watched a guy completely sheer a sheep! We learned about water irrigation. Tommy got to manuelly grind some Barley, go in a teepee and into an old fashioned carraige.

The canola oil station let us make our own play-dough from scratch. They also let us crush canola oil seeds to see how much oil we could get out of them. I think they are like 50% oil! We love to see all the canola fields in here in Alberta in the summer!

Easy Play Dough
Here's a quick and easy play dough recipe that will give your child hours of enjoyment!
Ingredients
1 cup flour 250 mL
1 cup salt 250 mL
1 Tbsp canola oil 15 mL
food colouring
water
Instructions
Mix flour and salt. Add canola oil. Add food colouring to a couple tablespoons of water. Then slowly add water until the mixture is pliable (spongy and clay-like).

As we were leaving there was a booth with a saddle that Tommy really wanted to sit on. The cowboy running the booth was so funny! He actually has a ranch in southern Alberta and offers from 1 1/2 hour horseback riding trips - 4 or 5 day trips where you stay in nice cabins with hot tubs and such at night! Sounds so fun!!!

We love aggie days and can't wait till next year :) There are so many other things we did, too many to remember!