Thursday, June 27, 2013

Graduation!

 June 25 was graduation day for our grandson, Jared.

 Receiving his diploma from  John Taylor Collegiate principal, Mr. Lockhart.

 Brothers!

 Proud parents with their boys.
 Our grad gift, together with Jared's parents, was a speaker box for his guitar. 
He was very pleased.

 At the grad dinner at the Victoria Inn.
 Jared dancing with his mom.

At the photo booth complete with a feather boa. Was a wonderful day to celebrate with family this accomplishment of our oldest grandson.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Kildonan Park & Buddy Holly



This past Sunday after meeting some of our kids for lunch  & a little shopping, we made our way to Kildonan Park in the north end of Winnipeg.


After some rain showers, there was just enough of a break in the clouds, for us to enjoy a walk & the flowers in the park.
Raindrops decorate the large leaves of the Hostas.

Brilliant blooms on Impatients.

Took these pictures with my Canon Point & Shoot & I'm still very happy with the quality of pictures it takes.


At 8 PM. we enjoyed 'The Buddy Holly" production at Rainbow Stage. The ushers were handing out paper glasses to represent Buddy Holly's trademark. Fun photo op. We both enjoyed the production & the rock n' roll music from that era.

Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Play Ball!

We have been spending some beautiful warm evenings watching our grandkids play ball.

 The ball season is short, May & June & it's great to watch their improvements as they learn the game.

 Adam has a turn at pitching.
Good action shot here as Adam jumps up to try to avoid an inside ball. Last evening this team played a 9 PM. game on the main diamond under the lights. Was a big thrill for all the players. Adam's team lost a game Thursday evening & then won the game under the lights. A great summer's evening to watch ball & chew sunflower seeds! An authentic Winkler activity!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Flowers

 I found some lilacs still in bloom in the park.


 Grandeur Gardens are now planted & starting to produce showy flowers.


I plan to do lots of photo shots here throughout the summer.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Celebrating Birthdays

 Yesterday, us 4 sisters & our mom celebrated 3 birthdays.
 Carolyn's birthday is June 25.
 
 Helen's birthday is July 1st. Greta, the green pepper appeared in one of her gifts.

I gave Helen this purple birdhouse hat & she promptly hung it up on a tree & sent me a picture.

 We celebrated Edna's milestone birthday & showered a beautiful lady with lovely things.
Mom & Edna in conversation.
The bottom picture was done by a professional photographer, Gayle Loewen, who we asked to come to take pictures of us with our mom. More pictures from this photo shoot to come.
We all had a great day celebrating.
Photo: Just one peek from today...so hard to choose just one (for now! ;)