Keremeos Dec 2001 to March 2003 (with pictures of Eden Lake/ Tartoo logging camps)

logging camp – Lionel

Wendy, Anthony, Peter

back porch and side yard (cherry trees etc)

Lionel, Wendy, Sarah, Anthony, Peter, Taryn

Peter, Taryn, Anthony, Wendy, Lionel

Nancy Allen, Marj Wright, Robyn, Peter, Taryn, Anthony

Sarah, Marj Wright, Norma

Sarah and Lionel

Dalton Dupuis, Peter, Jack Walker, Brett Gibb, Wendy, Stevie Hunka

Brett Gibb, Jeremy Auger-Patry, Peter, Jack Walker, Dalton Dupuis, Stevie Hunka, Wendy

Big Dave Sherbina, Jack Walker, Dalton Dupuis, Stevie Hunka, Anthony, Peter

Taryn, Andrew, Anthony

?, Tony, Andrew

Anthony

Taryn and Anthony

Taryn, Anthony, Andrew

logging camp – Irvin Edgars in the flipped seaplane

logging camp – Steve Holt

logging camp – Eric Crewe

logging camp – Alvin Edwards, Billy Edgars, Brian Higgonson

logging camp – Eric Edgars and Irvin Russ

logging camp – Billy Edgars and Eric Edgars

flipped seaplane at Eden Lake logging camp

Norma

side yard and house (trailer)

side yard and orchard

back yard and creek

back yard

Grandma and Grandpa – so cute!

Taryn and Andrew – so cute!

Peter, Andrew, Taryn, Sarah, Lionel, Nancy Allen

Anthony

Norma, Robyn, Sarah, Wendy

Robyn, Peter, Sarah, Bill Wright

Bill Wright, Wendy, Sarah, Lionel

christmas stockings

Christmas eve

Christmas eve – Sarah, Peter, Lionel, Wendy

Big Dave Sherbina

Robyn and Anthony

Christina Qualtier, Sarah, Wendy, Nancy Allen

Fran, Sarah, Anthony, Big Dave Sherbina

Elsie Friesen, Jamie Wright, Sylvia Wright, Christina Qualtier

Ceci Bodden, Elsie Friesen, Sarah, Logger Dave, Joseph Qualtier, Nancy Allen, Grant Wright, Art Friesen, Sylvia and Jamie Wright

Art Friesen, Jamie Wright, Sylvia Wright, Lionel, Big Dave Sherbina, Norma, Wendy

Elsie Friesen, Logger Dave, Sarah, Art Friesen, Fran, Jamie Wright, Lionel

Andrew, Anthony, Peter, Taryn, __ Bell, Rick Bell, Nancy Qualtier

Rick Bell, Nancy Qualtier, Mary Hitchcock, Bill Qualtier

Don and Ceci Bodden, Elsie Friesen

Robyn and Sarah

Lionel – 50 years old!

Robyn in her SESS “sparks” outfit

Andrew, Taryn, and Anthony – Hallowe’en

Anthony

Peter and Anthony

Norma and Marj Wright

Neeta Dhaliwahl and Robyn

Sarah, teacher Alan Stel, Brandy Baptiste

Sarah

Sarah, ?, ?

Mike Caswell and Sarah

Meghan Dawson and Sarah

Sarah and Norma

Sarah’s fellow grads

Jamie Wright, Marj Wright, Stew Wright, Sarah, Bill Wright, Sylvia Wright

Marj and Bill Wright with Sarah

Brandy Baptiste and her mom

Sarah and other grads leaving the stage

Sarah receiving her graduation cerfificate

Sarah with her “Acting” award

Sarah (in the center) at her grad

Lionel, Grant Wright, Sylvia Wright, Anthony, Peter, Robyn

Wendy, Norma, Meghan Dawson, Sarah, Peter, Anthony, Grant wright; Bill Wright and Stew Wright in the background

Sarah and Robyn

Sarah, Taryn, Anthony

Anthony

daddy Andrew Allen, Great-Grandpa Bill Wright, Anthony

Chinnie Lionel and Anthony

Anthony, Peter, Wendy, Sarah, Jeremy Auger-Patry

Wendy and Anthony playing video games

Stew Wright, Wendy, Robyn

Bill Wright, Wendy, Grant Wright, Lionel, Sylvia Wright, Anthony, Sarah, Norma

Tony in the wrapping paper! Sarah, Peter, Lionel in the background

Lionel, Taryn, Andrew, Anthony, Marj and Bill Wright, Robyn

Andrew, Taryn, and Anthony

Sarah, Robyn, Wendy, Peter

lots of Christmas stockings!

Taryn, Marj Wright, Anthony (wearing cute hat that belonged to Graham!)

Sarah, Bill Wright, Lionel, Peter

Christmas Eve – Wendy, Taryn, Marj Wright and Anthony, Sarah

And then in was Christmas – Tony’s first!  And of course he was the center of attention.  Great-grandpa and Great-grandma (Bill and Marj Wright) came down to Keremeos on Christmas eve.  There were a ton of stockings that Christmas – with Andrew and Tony being added to the usual line-up!  But the stocking opening was done in a couple stages – since Taryn, Andrew, and Anthony had now moved into their own little house in downtown Keremeos!  So just the four younger Hills for stocking opening stage one!  The Andrew, Taryn, and Anthony over for stage two!  And then the gift opening, with Great-grandpa and Great-grandma there, too.  Anthony, like most babies that age, was far more entranced with the wrapping paper than with the gifts!  And later, Stew, Sylv, Grant and Jamie Wright came over for more gifts!  Christmas afternoon included playing video games and table games – Anthony was right in the middle of it all, of course.  Jeremy Auger-Patry dropped by, too.

And then there is a GAP in the picture record.  Well, there are some snapshots taken probably during winter 2002, a get-together at Stew and Sylv’s place:  Bill and Marj Wright, Stew and family, the Hills, and Meghan Dawson….

And then pictures from Sarah’s grade 12 grad, June 2002, at Similkameen Elementary-Secondary School.  (Where, oh where, are birthday pictures from Sarah’s, Peter’s, and Anthony’s birthdays?  hm… perhaps they will turn up, out of order.  Ack!)  Ah yes, there is Sarah, parading into the gym with the other grads!  (oh yes, that reminds me, Sarah got the “most improved player” award for her efforts on the soccer team that year.  She and Robyn both played on the SESS team, and Norma spent lots of hours going to games, in Keremeos and other locations, like Penticton and Oysoyoos,  loudly cheering on her wonderful daughters (likely to their embarrassment) and bringing many home-made pizzas to encourage the team.  Oh yes, and had fun helping the girls practice – of course, they were much, much better players than she was, but she enjoyed it, and kept in shape.

Anyway… there Sarah is, with her “top Grade 12 Acting student” trophy… and receiving her graduation certificate… (and yes!  she also got a scholarship!) and marching off the stage with her fellow grads….  and there’s her friend, Brandy Baptiste with her mom…  and pictures of people congratulating Sarah:  her sister Robyn, her grandparents, Marj and Bill Wright, her aunt and uncle, Stew and Sylvia Wright, various fellow grads, her mommy Norma of course, her friend and fellow grad, Meghan Dawson, and others.  And then snapshots from the prom and grad party!

And then another Keremeos summer.  Visit from Norma’s mom, Marj Wright.  Peter and Anthony hanging out in the back yard.  Anthony keeping cool in his birthday suit….

What the heck!?!?!  No more summer pictures???  Okay, I know the kids were always borrowing the camera…. but really!!!!  Doesn’t SOMEONE have pictures from that spring and summer?  HELP!!!!  (I really, really, really need to go through the negatives… if I have them…).   Well, anyway, there were more birthdays for sure…. Robyn, Wendy, Taryn, Norma….

And then it was Hallowe’en!  And Tony was just ducky in his cute little outfit!

Oh! And there is Robyn in her SESS “Sparks” outfit!

And then it was a BIG event – Lionel’s 50th “Over the Hill” birthday party.  What fun!  Lots and lots and lots of people turned up:  Don and Ceci Bodden, Elsie and Art Friesen, Rick Bell and his daughter, Nancy Qualtier and Joseph and Christina, Mary Hitchcock, Bill Qualtier, Logger Dave and Fran, Sylvia and Stew Wright and Jamie and Grant, Big Dave Sherbina, Nancy Allen, Andrew Allen and Taryn and Anthony, and of course the Hill family.  And quite possibly others who didn’t get in the pictures, eh! Because for sure there were at least 32 or 33 people!

And then it was Christmas again!  And Wendy was very seasonal indeed, with her very red hair – in fact, she was going through a hair coloring stage about that time, and tried out a number of interesting colors!  And… ah yes! that was the Christmas Robyn built Norma a corner display shelf unit.  In fact, Robyn built a lot of wonderful things those last couple years of high school – including a dining table (for Norma!), a corner table (which was for herself, but Norma ended up with, yay!), a bench (ditto), an adirondack chair (ditto also)… yes indeed, Norma’s wish for lots of pine and other-light-colored-wood furniture was certainly fulfilled!  (Though she was still kind of sad about losing the pine cupboard she had built a number of years earlier… tough life, eh…).

And once again, there were a lot of stockings.  But what the heck!?!?!  Where is the annual sitting-by-the-stockings picture?  Good grief!!!!  Ha!  Maybe too many cranky-and/or-sleepy-teenagers??  Ha!  Have to put up those pictures instead then!  Nah… that would be mean…. oh well, how about some happy pictures then (more or less lol)?  Okay!  And as you can see, Bill and Marj Wright were there again!  And oh yes!  That was the year of the crazy quilts Norma made for everyone – all elegantly wrapped in pillowcases!  Well, at least some folks got quilts – others got crocheted afghans…  And of course Taryn, Andrew and Anthony came over… well, actually, everybody went over to their new home in Olalla!  And then they came over to the Hill’s to open their stockings, better late than never!

And since it was a white Christmas, someone took some great snapshots of the yard!  Yay!

And then 2003 arrived – and Lionel headed back out to logging camp, taking the camera along to get some more snapshots.  He got some interesting ones of the seaplane that had come into camp, bringing in the guys, and had flipped in the water when landing.  Everyone got out safely, thank goodness – though one of the guys made the pilot go back inside and rescue his case of booze before the plane sank!  Priorities…. hmmm….  Anyway, eventually the plane was raised from Eden Lake and hauled onto shore, and the guys took lots of pictures of it.  And Lionel also got snapshots of his logging buddies – BillyEdgars, Eric Edgars, Irvin Russ, Alvin Edwards, Brian Higgonson, Eric Crewe, Steve, and others.

Meanwhile, back in Keremeos, the winter carried on.  Lots of snow – and more snow pictures.  And then March 18th and Tony’s 2nd birthday, held at Taryn and Andrew’s place.  And an interesting snapshot of Sarah cutting Lionel’s hair!  (Oh yes, that reminds me…. Sarah had planned, right after graduation, to go to Vancouver Community College to take hairdressing, and even had her funding in place.  The course was to cost $2000.  And then, at the last minute, the government, which had frozen tuition fees for colleges and universities for several years, suddenly lifted them… and the cost shot up over $5000!  There was no way she could find the extra money on such short notice, so very sadly had to defer her plans.  In the fall, she went to the Learning Center and took a couple history courses that she wished she could have fit in her schedule in high school – and did very well indeed!  And then she got a babysitting job over the winter months.

And then it was Peter’s 12th birthday – and hurrah! We actually still have pictures of it.  By this time Peter and his buddies had started a tradition that lasted for a number of years – they all got together at spring break at the Hill’s, for Peter’s birthday, and Stevie’s too, since they were really close together.  Not only did they have a party, but a sleepover and a lot of crazy fun, year after year.  And sometimes the gang would also go out to Brett Gibb’s dad’s horse ranch out past Cawston for sleepovers as well.  This year, Jack Walker had joined the party.  As the years passed, Brett moved to Langley, and Stevie to Penticton and then Burnaby, and Peter to Penticton, but year after year the boys got together at the Hills, in Keremeos and later in Penticton, for the annual get-together.  This year the gang included Dalton Dupuis, Jack Walker, Brett Gibb, Jeremy Auger-Patry and Stevie Hunka – the whole gang.

This great event was followed by yet another 2nd birthday party for Anthony – because his daddy, Andrew, had been out at work on the actual date of his birthday.  And the second party included a hot dog roast out in the yard in Olalla!  (That was that birthday, wasn’t it? hmmm.. wish all the pictures were labeled!)