Amy has been Sarah's room mate for the year and her parents decided to
make a Valentine's Day trek to Princeton and other points East to
bring some of the Calgary snow (the proverbial Alberta clipper )
with them. Before the snow came, we had a small gathering and this is what
we saw.
Amy's parents, Rob and Barb
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arrived and then there was the family portrait
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and Amy and brother, Ben, posed
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on the couch before Sarah and Amy
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amused the Widdowsons
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while Ed and Calida
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checked to see why the fire
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was out and Amy and Calida
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did the room mate thing to the amusement of Kyle
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who seemed to lose his hair for the occasion.
Then it was time to eat. Kyle did the cake
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piece by piece
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as Amy and Calida waited
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for their plates to look like this
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and mine to look like this with flash
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and like this without
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which caused Jane to appear
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happy to be removed from her biology report
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if only for a minute. Amy decided to take this picture of Sarah and me
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which amused Suzanne
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and caused Sarah to do creative food arrangement
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As the mothers chatted
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we took the proverbial mother and daughter photos
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and then listened as Calida told her tales
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to Ed's amusement
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as Rob
reached for one last strawberry
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and mother and daughter
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and brother
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admired the clementines
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and the valentine's day flowers
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which were not particularly red. Kyle, whose shirt was red,
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told the story of his missing hair and then all went to bed.