Thanksgiving

As is the custom, we spent the Sunday of Thanksgiving at my cousin Barb's house!  A wonderful time was had by all! 



Mrs. Knight, Joyce, and Aunt Lois



Uncle Bob, Barb & Mrs. Knight



Raymond


Raymond and I played Crib with Uncle Bob, however we got skunked the first game I believe, then we played just Raymond and I, and I won, by one point! It is good to peg!!!!!!!


Supper was lovely, and we enjoyed visiting with Barb, Cynthia, and Robert (Rose was in Washington, she mistakenly thought Thanksgiving was the next weekend!) Ed, Joyce, and all four boys, Albert, Isaac, Samuel and Theodore, Uncle Bob, and Aunt Lois, Sheldon, and Mrs. Knight! It was a lovely Thanksgiving! The only missing person was my mom and she was sick! She missed out!

Dauphin Branch Activity

Friday September 30, 2011 a few members of the Dauphin Branch got together at Steadfast Ranch for a horse ride/ hay wagon ride/ bonfire supper!   We had a lot of fun, and will definitely be doing it again as per President and Sister Beaumont's request, since they were in Salt Lake City for General Conference!

Some of the Hay wagon riders!  Linda Fox, Bev Watson, Sully Fox, Raymond Northcott, Charlee Fox, Ang Fox, RJ O'Sullivan, and Porter Fox

Jay hooked up Brother Staheli's hay wagon to the tractor and off we went through the pasture, past the ridge and around and back!

At one point, Jay and Ron had to jump off their perches, and remove some fallen trees from our path.

Porter sitting on the hay wagon patiently! 

My husband, not sure if he was having a really good time, or was just putting on an act for the camera, or somewhere inbetween!  Needless to say he's mine and I love him dearly!

At first the cows were scared of us and our noisy crew and ran off, however this didn't last long and then they began to follow us.  This began to creep out the girl's a little bit.

I couldn't quite figure out why.  Both girls are from farms, both have spent their entire lives around cattle, so why were they acting so scared of the cows, (okay so I'll admit, Emma doesn't look to scared in this photo, but she was!)  Then I took a closer look at the cows, and suddenly it all became much clearer to me!!!!

Their eyes were glowing, these must be the scary, devil cows I hear about every now and again!

After awhile the crazy cows, got tired of chasing us around, and they left and we returned back to Steadfast Ranch for a lovely bonfire!

It was much darker and I was amazed how the flash brightened this picture up!  Here are Raymond, Jean and Emma sitting around the bonfire!

We didn't get to go with the horseback riders on their ride, but it was fun. 

As it was we had a pretty good turnout!

There was Gail Haggarty, and Jean McCurry, Ben and Linda, their 3 kids, Emma, Sully, and Ben, Bev and Ron Watson, TJ and Becky O'Sullivan and Clay and RJ, Kelly Millward and his three children Josie, Ryder and Cooper, Jay and Ang and their 4 children, Devin, Charlee, Porter and Major and Raymond and I. 

A great time was had by all!



Summer Family Supper

This summer when Jacquie, Wes and Jared came to visit from Calgary, they were able to take some time, and come and see us up in Ashern, and our new house, and bring a lot of the family with them for a family BBQ.  It was wonderful having everyone here!  Here are a few pictures of the event!

Dennis, Raymond, Doug

Bob, Elaine, Wes, Beth, Jacquie, Jared

Grandma Northcott

Dennis, Raymond, Doug

Bob, Elaine, Sharon, Beth, Jacquie, Jared

Grandma Northcott

Jacquie, Jared and Wes

3 Months Later!!!!

Our Sealing

July 2, 2011

Cardston Alberta Temple

Just Sealed!!!!

Our Family

 (l-r) Elaine and Bob Northcott, Raymond and Sharon Northcott, Pearl Hill, Jacquie Olson, James Northcott

Group Shot

Group Shot # 2

Jacquie, Jared and Wes Olson

Temple Shot

(l-r) Erin and Ian Beaumont, Pearl Hill, Raymond and Sharon Northcott, Eric Beaumont, Collin Palmer, Jocelyn Beaumont, Karen and Marvin Beaumont

I like this picture!!!!!

Deep in conversation!!!!

Ta Da!!!!!!!!!

Part of one of my favorite families!

(l-r) Marvin, Karen, Eric, Jocelyn, Ian and Erin Beaumont

Wonderful End to Wonderful Weekend!!!!!!!

This is the way our weekend ended!  Absolutely PERFECTLY!!!!!!

What a wonderful weekend!  We went to Winnipeg on Saturday to run some errands, get Raymond's car cleaned, see family, play games, and for me to attend the Harvest of Love, our annual Stake Relief Society Service Project! 

The Harvest of Love was incredible.  We had a lot of service projects on the go, tying quilts, tying fleece blankets, making quiet books to take back to our individual wards and branches, assembling school kits, and make lap blankets for geriatric patients.    I spent my time fringing and tying fleece blankets, with my lovely friend the Wendylady!!!!!!  We had a great visit!

I also managed to get some more baby stuff!  We now have a play pen, and a baby contour changing pad!

I got to meet Aunt Jane and Aunt Judy, two of Raymond's aunts on his dad's side.

Today was Fast Sunday in Dauphin, we had a wonderful turnout!  I think there were 30 of us, which included 3 past members who've moved to Prince Albert, the Solomon family, President Beaumont's sister Helen Cramb, and our High Councilman Brother Anderson!  It was a wonderful day, followed by branch correlation, and then a spectacular drive home through the beautiful fall leaves!!!!!!!!! 

We had Fish Tacos for supper (thank you Sister Wiley for showing me how to make them so many years ago!)

Phase Ten was a close race, I caught up, and almost won, however, I just couldn't find a 3 or 7 for the last round, and I had 4 of each!  It was a great game!

Followed by our bonfire!  It was wonderful.  We really haven't used our firepit too much this year, but it was very enjoyable!  Especially as the embers began to glow. 

Changes...

Things are never dull around here that is for sure, something is always changing lately, which is good, I'm not complaining, it is just interesting how there is always something going on!

The newest change would be at Church I guess.  For the next little while anyway, we get to sleep in a bit and don't have to leave at 7:30 for our 1 1/2 trek to church!  Yeah!  How long that will last... who knows, as I said, change is the only constant!

Last week was our Branch Conference!  Of course the Stake was out, and probably doubled our attendance!  President Robison and his counselors President Oler and President Baronins, and Brother Cormack.  Sister Finken and Sister McGinnis were there for Primary,  Sister De Guzman (Romy) variety was there for Young Women, and Sister Beaumont, Sister Cornia and Sister Yuell were there for Relief Society.  Marvin came along for the ride with Karen, or so I thought! 

Imagine our surprise when they released our newly called Branch Presidency and Elders Quorum Presidency.  Then add to my surprise when they called Marvin Beaumont as our new Branch President!  For about 10 seconds I was like... okay who is the real new Branch President, and then it sunk it, that this was indeed in fact for real!  It was crazy!  So now we have President Beaumont, Brother Jay Fox and Brother Drinkwater in the Branch Presidency, and Brother Ben Fox is the EQ Pres, with TJ O'Sullivan and Matt Kostur as counselors.  Everything else has stayed the same for now!

I'm excited for President Beaumont, I'm excited that his wife will be joining him!  I'm excited for the new changes this will bring for our branch!  It shall be good!

The only thing I'm not excited for is getting to talk again, I just spoke the last weekend in August, but of course President Beaumont didn't know that, when he called to ask me to speak!  :)  After he finished asking, he was like let me guess you just spoke two weeks ago... and I'm like actually I did!  :)  He laughed!  It will be good!   

Looking forward to see what comes next especially for Raymond, who was released as 1st counselor and as EQ secretary... 

Weird feeling...

First Day Back

Okay so maybe it was just because it was day one, but being back at school yesterday was such a weird feeling!  Even a bit depressing.  I don't have a classroom, I don't have anywhere to store my stuff, I don't have my own class...  I feel a bit like a duck out of water.

I'm blessed not to have to prep much, I guess I'm going to be teaching a few classes, and I'll be working in the Grade 7 classroom with my former students from last year!  :)  Anywho I never realized how boring the first day of school actually is for any other adult in the room. 

On  a brighter note it was so good to get back and to see the students, and my colleagues, and to hear of their experiences over the summer.  The students have grown for the most part, and the Grade 5s are so little!  It is crazy!