Grandma and Grandpa's Move

Yes, our dear Grandma and Grandpa are moving to Two Hills which is about 5 hours north of us. For those of you who don't know where it is you'll have to go on Google maps and check it out. It's a town (or city I don't know) an hour from Edmonton. They are going there to help with the new church that's started there. We will miss them very much as it's almost a custom for somebody to be at their house during the day for a bit or to come in the evening. A lot of our birthday parties are held at their house and all of our gatherings. We have spent a lot of time with them this last week. On Thursday we had them over for cake and ice cream for the triplet's birthday. Adolf and Annie, Willy and Marcie, and Gloria and Dave came. We visited for a while, had the cake and ice cream, and then the triplet's opened their gifts that they got. Willy and Marcie gave the girls each a notebook and a decorative paper punch. For Edgar they had bought a sweater. When he tried it on, everyone was a little touched, he looked so much like Caleb. Then we sang some songs. I was playing the piano on the song I am Looking for the City built of God while the rest were singing. When I turned around once we were done, everyone was wiping tears. I instantly knew why because the chorus goes like this:
                                               Oh, the glory gates are open wide
                                                   inviting the world to come.
                                               Oh, the glory gates are open wide,
                                                   to welcome the weary home.
We all had to think of Caleb. That evening was bitter-sweet.
  On Sunday, we went to Grandma and Grandpa for supper or faspa as we call it. We enjoyed our last Sunday in a long time at their house.
  On Monday we went to their house for Eric's 20th Birthday party. Anna had made a cake for him with a hammer, chisel, and a measuring tape on the top and black icing on the edge with DeWalt written in Yellow along the edge. She did a very good job! We had enchiladas, rice and salad for supper.
  On Tuesday, Mama took us children to help Grandma pack. Annie came too. We packed the groceries, kitchen items, some books, some toys, etc. They are only planning to come back for Christmas and we hope they will not stay too much longer than the 6 months they are planning on now.
   Yesterday we went to Grandma and Grandpa to say "Bye" yet. They left early this morning. A lot of us are planning to visit them on a weekend some time. They have a very small house there so yesterday the children were trying to figure out where we would sleep when we went to visit them. No, we haven't quite figured it out yet. Of course we don't miss them yet but once the lonely winter evenings come, when our van hasn't gone anywhere since Sunday, then we will longingly wish that they were home. Winter hasn't come yet this year for us. Today it actually looked like an April day with no snow in sight. We will enjoy this weather while we have it because some people say that if you don't like the weather in Alberta just wait 5 minutes. That's not always true of course but I might write about 2-4 inches of snow before next Thursday,
                                                                                                               -Yesenia-