Introductions

Everyone heard that we are moving here where my cousins live, but you may not know them. Just like we were unknown to Fort Qu'Appelle, but fairly widely known as "the cousins". We were visiting the community outreach and an excited voice exclaimed "so YOU'RE the cousins!". Sheena is seen here with the head honchilla of the Outreach, Keitha, who according to one relative is estimated to be related to about %50 percent of the town. Sheena wrote an article about Fort Qu'Appelle and ended it by mentioning the fact that it is such a wonderful town that a Texan family of 5 has been in the works for a year to move there. That's small town, right there, when 5 people moving to town makes headlines. All of that to say, they really had heard we were coming!

Mike, her husband, is apparently missing from my photos, thus far. Probably in part due to the fact that he was often running off to soccer games or practices. He coaches his daughter Moira's team. Here she is with her garden plot. She has an older sister Victoria and younger sister Arwen. Arwen has been the youngest for a long time and was absolutely thrilled to have 2 tag alongs for the week we were there. She kept asking us not to leave and apparently is in mourning that we are not still there. (We are currently in Stoon where Brian is working at Jenn and John's). We are getting time with mom, dad and even got to see Andrew the other night (my brother).

To make things more confusing, Sheena has a brother (my other cousin) who also lives in town. Ian and his wife Janet have 2 kids, Kellen and Lannelle ages 3 and 2. Janet is the super fit athlete who is going to help whip me into shape by inspiring me to drag my kids all over town on foot. Sheena also has a sister (my other, other cousin), who often comes from Regina to join us for a family get together and her parents aren't that far either, so sometimes Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary get into the mix.

Here's Brian at his first gig in Fort Qu'Appelle. He has 1 or 2 more scheduled this summer.