New Ward

This past Sunday we had one of those multi-ward-boundary-change meetings that have become so popular in Calgary lately. We found out that we now belong to the new Coventry Ward which is comprised of Coventry Hills, Country Hills, Harvest Hills, and a bit of Beddington. The other wards in the stake received some minor changes as well, but the big one was splitting up Coventry Hills and Panorama Hills. I'm just realizing that every community around us is named "something Hills", someone in the city planning department has a mad love for hills. We still go to our new building in Panorama Hills but we now meet at 1:00pm. Once the Airdrie Ward that's been meeting at our building goes back to their building we will probably be moved to 11:00am. Since it is a whole new Ward we all have been released from our callings so as of right now I'm no longer the Gospel Doctrine teacher and Tammy is no longer the Enrichment leader. We're both hoping they'll re-call us to the same callings again but you never know. Next week is General Conference so we might not find out for another week or so.

Dda Picnic in the Park

I stole some pictures off of Rhonda's website from the company picnic we had last Saturday at Bowness Park. It was a great time, I have lots of childhood memories from that park. We were there the week before for the Panorama Ward corn bust and both days the weather was great. Here's a pro looking photo of Dave and his kids that Rhonda took.

3 Months Old

Emma turned 3 months old yesterday so I thought I'd dust off my keyboard and make some entries. As an update on us, we're all happy and healthy and loving the family life. Emma is so much fun to have around, she's been laughing and smiling so much lately. I'm still at school full-time and working nights at Dejong Design Associates so I'm kept pretty busy. I do about three hours a night now and five hours on Saturday so I can make a twenty hour week. It'll be good when school is done so I can go back to a semi-normal schedule. I'm still the Gospel Doctrine teacher in our ward and I'm hoping it'll stay that way as we have one of those multi-ward boundary adjustment meetings this Sunday. We'll see I guess. Tammy would like to keep her position as enrichment leader too but you never know.

Part-Time Associate

Yesterday was my last day working on a full-time basis at DeJong Design Associates since I return to school on Monday. They would still like me to work there on a part-time basis as my schedule permits so I guess I'm not officially leaving. My school schedule keeps changing drastically and still isn't fully figured out so it's hard to say how many times a week I'll be able to go in to the office. I hope it works out because I really enjoy working there. The job is great and the people are great. I'm going to try and see if I can get any credit or anything for some of my classes since I've been working in the industry for the past four months and maybe that will lighten my schedule a bit. I am excited to go back to school but its a hard trade to go from working and making money to studying and doing homework. It's my last year though so I'll be back in the workforce before I know it. Thanks be to Dave for the hook-up and thanks be to Marvin for being so accommodating with my schedule during the past four months and now during school.

Baby Shots

Emma turned 2 months old yesterday and to celebrate Tammy took her to the doctor to get some needles! She had three shots in her legs and boy did she cry. I wasn't there but Tammy said she's never seen her cry like that before. I guess there is a burning sensation that comes along with the stabbing sensation. She's more than fine now though. I think it must take a special sort of someone to poke babies with needles all day for a living. Tammy drove me to work in the morning so she could have the car and we brought Emma in to show her to everyone in the office. We took her out of her car seat and discovered she had pooed all over herself and the seat. Not a big deal but it was green slimy stuff and there was a client meeting goin on and no place to really clean her up. We ended up cleaning her off in the gym next door on one of the mats. No one will be told. It took about 45 minutes to deal with but everyone at the office is pretty understanding as almost everyone there has young children of their own. They weighed Emma at her poke session and she's still only about 10 and a half pounds. Thats unusual for Tammy's side of the family and it puts Emma in the less than 50th percentile for weight but the 90th percentile for height. I have been noticing some chubb forming on her bones lately though so hopefully she starts filling out soon.

Grandpa Olsen's Birthday

Tammy's Dad turns 56 today so we wish him a happy one. The whole family minus Arlen went to the White Spot last night for dinner to celebrate. I had never been to a White Spot before. The food was ok but the menus had old dish rag stink all over them so it turned me off eating right from the get go. Besides that and almost hitting a hobo on the way home, we had a pretty fun night.

10 000 Days Old

I got my call from Dale Shoults this week infroming me that I turned 10 000 days old this past Tuesday. I'm glad he keeps track and lets people know because I sure wouldn't have realized on my own. Maybe he should take it one step further and start marketing some birthday cards for these kinds of occasions. Or maybe I should.

30th Anniversary

I'd like to wish my parents a very Happy Anniversary! They celebrated their 30th on July 11th. They were married back in 1975 in the Cardston Temple and 30 years, 5 children, and 4 grandchildren later, they're still together. They've set a great example for us kids and I know that if science made it possible they would someday celebrate their 100th Anniversary. Congratulations!

Beef and Barley Days 2005

It's Stampede time in Calgary right now but Tammy and I haven't made the trip down to the grounds this year to see it. We did however make it out to Carstairs yesterday for their annual Beef and Barley Days celebration. We were a bit late due to feedings so we missed the pancake breakfast and the better part of the parade but we did take the tour of the craft show and we watched a bit of the baseball tournament. We should have done more things like go to the car show that they have every year but I really wasn't feeling well yesterday. We ran into Bud and Julie Gustafson at the game and showed off babies and chatted for a while. Most of Tammy's family shows up for the celebration so we hung out at her parents house with them for most of the day eating Burger Baron. One of the more important parts of the trip was introducing Emma to Max, the Olsen's aged cat. He's been with their family for 16 years now but they have no idea how old he really is as he showed up full grown. We wanted them to meet because we don't know how much longer he'll be around but then again, people have been saying that as long as I've known him. It was a good fun, hopefully next year we'll be able to make it on time for the breakfast and the parade.

Great Great Great Aunt

We found out that shortly after Emma was born that her Grandpa Olsen's Great Aunt passed away. She was over 100 years old when she died. I thought it was quite amazing that Emma's Great Great Great Aunt was still alive when she was born. I wish we could have gotten a picture of the two of them together. We also then realized that my Grandma Bourne is the last living Great Grandparent that Emma has out of the possible 8 from both sides of the family. Great Grandma Bourne comes home from her mission down in Salt Lake later in the year so I'm looking forward to introducing them to eachother.