Sisters!

Symphonies...coffee...laughter...friends...chocolate...movies...late nights...talking...shopping...fellowship...pictures...chatting...loving...crying...reading...

All these = SISTERHOOD!!!!!!!!!

I love you all!!!!

Tim Hortons

So here's Bekah and I in front of Tim Hortons! The best coffee place in Canada! ;-D I also love their honey crullers! I'll post another update here pretty soon. I should be going home on the 18th! So excited about that! :-) But I am a little sad to leave here too! Can't be two places at once though, just doesn't seem like it'd work. :-)

Okay enough smileys, and I'll leave you this for now!

Storms in Life

I was listening to a cd and started singing along with the song that was playing. As I was singing I had to pay attention to the words to know what to sing, that way I heard the amazing words to this song's chorus!

It takes a storm now and then to remind me to depend, to depend on the Lord, and to rest in His word. For in the wind and the rain, I learn to call on His name. And, I thank Him in my soul. It took a storm to make me strong. -Storm Now and Then- Mosie Lister- Sang by the Booth Brothers on Carry On.

These words don't lie. I know that cause I have had storms in my life that have made me a stronger person. I posted on here a while ago about the bumps in my life making me trust in God more. I guess that's why these words grabbed my attention so much. Thank the Lord for singers who will sing about his wonderful goodness!

Riding

So these are all backwards. :-P But please bare with me and just scroll through them from the bottom up. :-) At the top is Bonchimon going for her first ride outside the pasture and very excited about it! The pictures of Elzear are of his second ride! He's doing very well! Loving these race horses today! :-) Thank you to John Arcand for taking the pictures!

Off to explore the farm! She was so excited to be out and exploring! I had to hold her back or she would have given me a jockey's view of the farm! LOL!

Wait up there, I have to get ready! And that's be me speaking! She couldn't wait to go exploring!

She's ready!

Blurry as it may be, I love this picture!

He's so soft in the mouth and lovely to ride!

How's the brakes?

Checking out the flexion.

Almost riding.

Half-way!

Checking and making sure he's alright for riding.

Giggles are possibly good for the soul??

So today Vicki took me in to Wal-mart and there I met up with a good friend by the name of Bekah. Some of you know her, other don't. Those who don't are missing out on knowing a very sweet young lady, who is a inspiration to me every time I'm in contact with her. Anyways, we had decided to go shopping together. :-) First off I got some pictures printed there at WM then we headed off to a Christian book store where we dug around in all sorts good things, like Bibles, books, music cds, and last but certainly not the least we dug around in some of the delicious cheese cake, carrot cake, iced cappuccino, and iced mocha, as served by the cafe in the store. That was just the start of the fun!

I had never been mini golfing, so Bekah decided to take me to Market Mall. The first thing we did there was go mini golfing, or maybe that would be hitting the balls around 5-8 times to get them in the holes and giggling the whole time. We did get through the 18 holes and then went shopping.

We got all sorts of stuff. As you can see by the pictures. :-) Bekah said it (the hat) looked good on me. :-) So at mix or match 5/$10, I got it, the necklace, and the scarf along with some other things. :-)

After a few other stores, we got some food and then headed home. It was so fun! We giggled over just about everything, but got some really good conversation in as well.

On Friday evening John, Vicki and I went in to see the Jazz Manouche in the Broadway theater. It was featuring the Hot Club of Edmonton ( http://www.hotclubedmonton.com ) and Les Imposteures [the imposters] ( http://www.christinetassan.com/ ). I knew three of the band members for The Hot Club of Edmonton, Clinton and Freddie Pelletier, and Daniel Gervais. The bass player, Keith Remple, was an amazing musician! Les Imposteures were great musicians as well! It is an all female group, while their music wasn't as lively as the HCoE, they are very pleasant to listen too. :-) Jazz Manouche is also known as Gypsy Jazz. It's very different from regular jazz. The concert was put on by CBC, it should soon be on CBC On Demand. Check it out sometime. :-)

Saturday, Freddie came out to give me 'a few pointers on my guitar playing'.... It turned out to be a 4 hour lesson. My head was about exploding by the time we were done. I have a LOT of theory to learn and practice. :-)

The colts are doing pretty good in their training. I'm riding Bonchimon, and hope to soon be riding Elzear. :-)

I'll sign out for now.

Lydia

Family pictures

So I thought it was about time I posted some of the latest family photos. These were taken the day before Hannah went to Bible college. :-) If they're too goofy for you, sorry, our family is, well, goofy, to say the least. :-)

This was our goofiest pic. :-)

The sun was shining, so therefore the squinting. Oh well. We needed a family picture. :-)

Us kids. :-) I think I love Sara's look the best. She loves glasses! :-) So this is my lovely family! I love them all dearly! :-)