Tru North Strong and Free!!!

As of Sept 9, we have become Northerners! We are settling into Air Ronge, and La Ronge area for approx 3 months. Here are some pics in the last week or so.

Lac La Ronge, a lake of many many islands!!!

The hospital in La Ronge that Dean is doing his first practicum in for the three months we are here. His last practicum is a community practicum so he won't be confined to working in the hospital, it will be working with the schools, etc.

The back side of the hospital. The far right entrance is the emergency entrance.


Montreal River. This river flows into Lac La Ronge.


Some of the beautiful homes up here!!

On Dean's first day off after 4 - 12 hour day shifts, he couldn't wait to go and pick blueberries. After a little drive into the bush, it wasn't long that we found them almost every where we could see. We also found a few cranberries in amongst them too!!

May Long...

These obviously aren't in order.... but here are some pics that date back to May long weekend at home. Dad took us out on a Sunday afternoon hike .... sort of a family ritual... Dean talks about it every once in a while. The valley is beautiful and nature is amazing. Here are some pics from our hike... as we met up with some four legged friends.

More yet to come of the weekend. Will try to post later.

Craig and Pam con't

I was too sleepy the other night to post allllll of the pics that I had, so here are some more from Craig and Pam's wedding.

The beautiful Pamela....

Craig.... we warned you about this.... and no sooner we caught you in the act..... Can you tell he is a newlywed????? lol

The Wedding Party.... Pam's Sister Avril and Craig's brother Kurt

The McConnell Family...... these kids are so cute and Cayden is such a big helper to mom....

Dean and the l'il Micayla
Keonna loooooved the black forest cake.... I must not have been feeding her fast enough or she loved it too much that her face was right in the bowl a couple of times. Yum!Snuggles with Uncle Dean

Keonna and I took a little trip and she was a 'big girl' and sat in beside Aunty in the front seat.... don't worry, it was basically from their back yard to their front yard... going about 10 km/hr

Ccccccraig and Pam Ccccccarpenter. Its official!!!!!!!

We had the privilege of seeing Craig and Pam on their wedding day at open house on Friday June 6th. Hard to believe that the day has come and gone already. Puerto Vallarta is where they were headed for their honeymoon I believe. Cute advice from someone to them was 'you are starting off just right'..... 'by taking a trip'. I am sure you guys are having lotsa fun right now enjoying each other's company and the sun. Starting your life together brings such sweet memories. Hard to believe its been more than three years for us now. Time flies..... Here are some pics from their day.

Cutting the Cake!

Some of Janine's amazing flower designs!













































































Our Little Keonna Bean rode in this wagon for part of the day. Her and little Zade rode up the aisle in this wagon with the wedding party before the ceremony. Cute! She was also getting sleepy in the afternoon so she feel asleep right in the wagon and had a good little snooze until they had to wake her up for family pics.

Meeting Zade! This is Pam's nephew that rode in the wagon with Keonna. He is 10.5 months and a little sweet heart!

The Anderson Family...... with two Carpenters :)

















All of the Carpenter Fam.....



































Craig now has two special ladies in his life.... sorry mom, I think you have lost first place though now.

Travel Bug

Sister Donna was on her way through on Sunday night to see the new baby in AB... it was a late night, but fun none the less! We got looking at a few pics from New Brunswick again and ooooooh the travel bug seems to be lacking some attention the past year! With Dean in school, we can't make it out of Saskatchewan...... but let me tell you... when he is done...... we could have a world tour planned by then!!!!!! YIKES! On our minds? Austria, Greece, Ireland, Spain, France..... The Carribean, UAE, the list goes on and on and on. The pictures below are from out trip out to New Brunswick for the Sinc reunion last August! We had a blast. Oh the memories that flood our hearts when we look at these pictures......sigh.... :)

Proud Auntie and Uncle we are!!!!!!!!!

Photo Shoot anyone???

Dean and I had a lot of fun this weekend going to see the new baby in the family. Thanks for putting up with us Kurt and Janine...... she's a precious l'il bean! I think I wore Janine out on Saturday. We took about 200 pics of the Keonna at Alice and Lonnie's. P.S. If you ever need a Teddy bear of any sort, size, shape or colour... just call ALICE...... she has them all!