Marysville Main St Fire-Oct 16/2007

So, as the title states-there was a fire:) It all began around 1am on a building called the Owl&Teapot. Shortly after 1am the fire jumped to Cody&Kirsten's building which was next to ours. Troy and I were woken up at 1:15am and evacuated our building. Once we got outside we were in awe to see that the Owl&Teapot had flames reaching 20feet tall. We were able to watch the power lines blow and everything from the alleyway. We eventually moved to the main street to see if we could find Kirsten and see if she was okay. We found her eventually with her family. Cody was working in Sparwood so Troy called him to tell him that the building his apartment is in was on fire-Cody arrived home around 4am. We stood there and watched the fire up until 3am when the streets were cleared. We weren't able to get back into our apartment so we had a sleepover at Ian&Rae's and we listened to the firefighter radio all night. One of the firetrucks had a water spray constantly on our building to keep it from igniting next. The fire was put out around 6am and we were able to get back into our place around 7:30 so that I could get ready for work. The firefighters said that of the 4 apartments that caught fire-Cody&Kirsten would be sweetly surprised with theirs-and they were. We were able to get into their place around 2pm and we had 3 hours to remove everything before their apartment was boarded up. 11 people helped them move their belongings-and the firefighters were able to save everything they had. Their couches are damaged from the smoke but everyone agreed that that was a minimal loss that was acceptable. It was an amazing and scarey experience all in one that I hope to not go through again.

Thanksgiving OCt 7/2007

This year we spent Thanksgiving here in Marysville with Troys family. Troy's cousin, Casey, stayed with us for the weekend. On Sunday Troy, Casey, Ian, Troy's Uncle Vic & Myself all went quadding for the day. We went up to the VOR tower again and 3/4 of the way up we ran into snow.. over a foot of snow:) Once we reached the top Troy and I did a couple of donuts and then I hopped off to take some photos of Troy & Casey playing in the snow with the quads. It was a fun afternoon-Mitzi had to go back down to where there wasn't any snow-her coat just wasn't thick enough. We roasted smokies over the firepit and then worked our way back down the mountain and back home for some turkey dinner. Rae made a very delicious feast and there was 11 of us in total for dinner. On Monday Troy & I went over to try and help finish off the bird:)

Whiteswan Lake Camping Aug 31-Sept 3/2007

Due to the raining weather the previous weekend.. we weren't able to go out fishing. So we decided that we would go up again the following weekend to camp some more and try a little fishing. I've never caught anything before so it was definately an experience-Ian said that I had the biggest fish for the summer that everyone fished-so that was pretty cool. I caught and released my fish.. and what I mean by that is that I caught it.. Ian netted it/unhooked it/measured it/set it free:).. So really.. I just got to do the fun part. Troy and I each caught fish and we kept one of Troys-we'll definately have to try it again next summer:) I won the "woodchucker" log award-because I was the closest at guessing how many bundles of wood Linda sold. The bet between she and her boss was that she couldn't sell 80... and if she could.. she would get a week off of work with pay.. well turns out that she cleared 80 bundles-also it being the first friday of a long weekend and the fire ban was lifted.... might have had something to do with it:)