Journaling reads:

My grandparents, Florence Marie Carlson and Magnus Joseph Leander Wegren were both born and raised in Illinois. In 1903, Joseph and his family left for Saskatchewan to homestead 160 acres near the small town of Allan.

Joe and Florence corresponded and their families kept in touch. 1 Aug 1911 they were married in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They went to live on his farm and raised their family - John, Rodney, Josephine and Dale.

Life on the prairie was very different from the life Gramma had lived as a girl. She had been raised in the city of Moline, Illinois and before she got married she had taught school. It was a complete reversal of what her life had been in Moline.

She learned and adjusted to life on the farm and was a wonderful wife and mother. She made a very happy life for herself and her family. She never got back to Moline. Her father had died efore her marriage and her mother moved west with them. Mom said she told her that she felt she couldn't spend he money on the proper wardrobe needed to go back to visit.

Grampa was a wheat farmer & a blacksmith. He was a mountain of a man, a gentle giant and people all around called him “Big Joe Wegren”.

This is my Gramma and Grandpa's wedding announcement and photos. I believe they were married in Winnipeg on their way west. Her mother was moving there with them and was the only one at the wedding.

I think Spring is finally getting here. It is 52 out and sunny - just a perfect day for Palm Sunday! Church was wonderful, the weather is super, and I can even hang some clothes out on the line! Thank you God for your blessings.

After I posted this page the other day with the white background, I decided it looked really stark; so I reworked it with some color and now like it a lot better.

The new page I am posting for today is of my Great Grandmother Johanna. My Dad always spoke highly of her. I think she must have been a very special lady.

Whoa the cold weather is really back. It barely made 32 today, but at least it won't last in March.

Continuing with heritage layouts on my Dad's family:
The top photo on this layout was taken in 1941. It is of the family home. My Dad had this in an album he had taken with him when he went in the RCAF. The photo of the family below was taken around 1934. Left to right is: Dale, Grampa, Gramma, John, Josephine and Rodney.

I have been so lax, thinking I would get pages done especially for this blog. I guess that isn't going to happen, as life keeps getting in the way. For now I will start uploading some heritage pages I have done. The first ones will be on my Dad's family.

This one, "Saskatchewan Winters", was done for a flashback challenge. The journaling is as follows:

When my Dad was growing up on the prairies of Saskatchewan, the winters were bitter cold and lots of snow. The roads were not plowed, so to get around they used horse drawn covered sleighs. When the weather was terrible they used the oxen. There was a window out front and a place for the reins to come through and a seat for the driver. There were benches along either side and a small woodstove in it for heat. They used these as late as the 1950’s. I can remember the one in the bottom photo.

Two Days in a Row?

Whoaa, this is scary. I am making it two days in a row! That is amazing to me.

It was very slow at the Library tonight. I was able to get a lot (500+), of guest passes made for the computer lab, and about 150 bookmarks with our hours on them done. Since I took over as the graphics person there, I do everything I can in-house. That way we don't have to get 1000+ of something from the printer, and can change things on a regular basis. I am there anyway for the circ desk, so my time doesn't really figure into the form making.

Jen came over this morning and brought the new Mario game for the Wii! It is just too much fun. I can't buy it, because I know I wouldn't get anything else done.

Here are the other two layouts I have done in my Travel Michigan series of scrapbook pages.

Happy New Year

I can't believe it is the 11th of January already and it is my first post of the New Year! I'm not very good at this, but I will keep trying. We are supposed to get a few bonus days this week; temps up to 30 which will seem like heaven after the last few weeks. We need some new snow too, it would clean things up. There is not much worse to look at than dirty snow!

I got a Wii and Wii Fit Plus for Christmas, so my New Year's resolution is to use it everyday. So far it hasn't been much of a hardship -- it is so much FUN!! I just love it. I love the golf, and the game of going down the river in the bubble. That is really fun. I may even get in shape in spite of myself! That would be the best Christmas present of all. LOL

The page I've posted today is one I put up on Two Peas a while ago. It is part of a series of pages I am doing on fun places we have gone to here in Michigan. Hopefully I'll end up with enough pages to do a Snapfish book. For now I only have 3 done.