woodenness bluing: Gramma turns 90 in Calgary

Friday, January 4, 2013

Gramma turns 90 in Calgary | Rowan Family Tree

After one day in Creston, it was off to Calgary to celebrate my Gramma?s 90th birthday.

Nona, as she is called by the girls, actually turns 90 in January, but we had the rare chance to get our whole family together around Christmas, so we seized it. All of the cousins haven?t been together since I graduated from my bachelor?s degree, which was more than a decade ago. The reason is because we live all over the place. But my cousin D was in from Sierra Leone, and my cousin S was in from the UK, and the rest of us migrated in from Western Canada to celebrate our gramma together. IT was so nice to catch up and share more than quick hellos with them.

We did a lot of visiting, a fair bit of shopping, a little walking, and had a ton of photographs taken. The photograph results you?ll just have to wait to see until they arrive Perhaps in my VERY late Christmas cards?

Well, after a short 2 night visit, Jason took the girls off to Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, to visit his mom, and I flew home to Kelowna to work and get ready for the next semester! Now THAT was a crazy December!!

: Out at breakfast, talking charity work. My cousins S and D run a charity similar to Vulnerable Children, but in Liberia.

: Hanging out at Auntie W?s house with her monster dog, Cooper.

: Sugar showing cousin S our pics from Costa Rica

: Getting ready for the glam shots?.

: Nona, not happy about all the pictures, but estatic that all her fmaily is there.

: Eating my cousin P?s gingerbread house?

: Prosecco for all! It?s a celebration!

: The inlaws hanging out in a quiet corner?

: Sugar showing off her massage skills.

: My bro, cousin and daughters on the way to the restaurant to celebrate. Each had their own guy to take care of them!

: It was so cute ? Spice has a crush on my cousin D, and she sat beside him at dinner and talked his ear off the whole night. :-)

: Sugar remembering her hang 10 with Uncle B?

: Greatgranddaughters helping Nona blow out the cake candles?

: Helping Nona cut the cake. Actually the servers did the rest ? we all had a slice of each! My sister made the cakes ? they were beyond fabulous!