My birthday/YFC banquet

I turned 26 last Friday. So we decided (like a month ago) that we should get away for the weekend, so we called Aunt Susan & Uncle Earl and arranged to stay with them in Spruce Grove. We left at 9am Friday morning, and arrived in Edmonton mid afternoon, so went shopping until Earl was home from work. That evening Earl & Susan treated us to The Cheesecake Cafe for supper, it was great, Hayley & Stacey were bugging each other as only siblings know how. Art & Hertha came too, so much jollity was had. Then we went back to Spruce Grove to watch Yours, Mine & Ours, it was pretty funny.

Saturday morning Susan made us a really great brunch; pancakes, hash browns, scrambled eggs, cheese toast, bacon & sausage. It was really good! I really wanted to go to IKEA, but Lindsay decided to refuse to go with me, so it ended up that the boys; Lindsay, Uncle Earl, Uncle Art and Shannon (with Stacey tagging along) went TV window shopping. While the ladies; me, Hayley, Aunt Hertha & Joanna, went to IKEA. Unfortunately Aunt Susan had to do fundraising at the bingo :-( After such an exhausting afternoon we all trooped back to Earl & Susans and had a BBQ, and Susan made such a good potato salad, I was in heaven! Then we watched Walk The Line, which was OK, but I wish they had done more about their life after he had cleaned himself up.

Sunday we packed ready to go home, while Susan made us another good brunch with leftovers from the night before, Lindsay was really happy because we hadn't even cut in to the Black Forest Gateau the night before so there was lots for him to eat! We left early afternoon, and arrived in Saskatoon at 8pm at which point Lindsay took me straight to the Keg for Kyla's birthday gathering. I just ordered a salad and appetiser because I had eaten far too much at the weekend.

Then Monday arrived, not only was it Monday, but also the YFC banquet day. So started running around at 7.30am and didn't stop until 10pm. But the banquet was AWESOME. It went so well. Greg had made his funniest video yet for us, Kristin & Corwin brought both Project Serve teams to speak and help out, Kim had some of the boys from The Bridge D4 speak, Tyson talked about Regina and Gil talked up a storm about us staff and the new building. People seemed to really catch the vision, and we got lots of positive comments. It was a long tiring day, but well worth it. If you want to know who all these people are and what D4 is please check out the Saskatoon YFC link on the right.

But the office hasn't slowed down any, oh no, because now it is full steam ahead for Calbreak!