Introducing Lincoln Patience Staniland

We made a trip home to MB and specifically to Lenswood just to see this little guy. We are very proud to announce that Tanya and Melvin, once again, made us an Aunt and Uncle. Our new nephew, Lincoln Patience Staniland, was born on March 12, 2008. He is the cutest thing I have ever seen and since he is Tanya and Melvin's baby, he is just a doll. Tanya and Melvin make great babies!



While there, we of course got to hang out with Baba and Gedo and Morgan and Jorja. I bought Claire and Jorja matching outfits and they were sooooo cute! Thank you Claire for going along with this plan. Jorja thought that it was wonderful to look just like her big cousin Claire.

Another great part of our holiday was an afternoon spent and the INCREDIBLE sliding hill at Uncle Dale and Auntie Delorice's. This is Baba's brother's house and they have cleared trees on their property to make this amazing hill. It is such a great sliding hill that the local elementary school field trips out to it in the winter!!! The best part, I think, is that you get to slide down this great hill and you don't have to walk up. Uncle Melvin or some other related man gets on this fancy snow machine with a big sled behind it and drives down the hill and picks you up at the bottom and takes you all the way around back up to the top!!! You can't beat that! Of course this means the sliding goes on for hours, which in our family means you need food. So, of course, there is a big firepit at the top of the hill where the parents can keep warm and you can roast weiners. Gramma Donna supplied Rice Krispie cake and Puffed Wheat cake for Dessert.

Claire with the snowboard the attempted to slide down the hill on.  She was getting pretty good, but decided that it was waaay more fun riding down and up the hill in the sled behind the snowmobile.

This is the gang from sliding.  Daniel and Claire, Morgan and Jorja.  D and Claire's cousing Carson and Morgan and Jorja's cousins, Quincy and Ben.