My Best Gal

Vicki Lee

We met in Taber in Jr. High Scool when her dad Milton Iverson came to be the school new answer to music in the W R Myers school system. She joined my classes and i thought to myself ah ha here is some one with the same interests as i have music, family etc.nice girl i think she and i will be best of buddies and of course many many years later that really was and the journey of Vicki and LeAnn began. All thro school we were chums and i at her house or her at my house there for dinner or me over there hair streaking or talking about boys.....walking to ice skating or down to the Rex diner for Chips and Gravy and to listen to the music juke box 3 songs for a quarter wow life could not be better.....when we were real lucky and her brother Norris was on a nice kick we got his black Baracuda car and we look absolutely fabulous in that car....we talkied about the mystery of what lay in store for us .... Taber Days the fair going to the rodeo and also believe it or not wrestling in Lethbridge......Life again could not be better

...what life had in store for us and getting past the part of getting out of high school then we thought life was grand. She started her first job with the Taber Times and i attended Ricks College were we started the letter writing back and forth til i returned home to meet this fellow she has met in Coaldale I was shocked to find my hubby Walter just waiting to be snatched....most of those Coaldale guys married us Taber Girls mind you how could they not they were gonners the moment they met us...I sang at her wedding had flown home for it and that is were i met Walter and the rest is history....Life is short to short soon we were having children she had Scott and by the time they had Scott we were onto our 3rd already we had Kimberly-Lyndsay and Michael and then Scott arrived and then soon Mary arrived...we were into talking about babies raising them colic and bottles diapers then into kindergarten until those boys would not behave and we had to split them - Scott mornings and Michael afternoons....we stayed in Taber until Joni was 3 and then we moved to Leduc and then eventually into Edmonton were we did the long distance thing them coming to us and we to them...our biggest thing was the Taber Trip or them coming to us....kids grew marriages happened we became grandparents and such a lovely grandma Vicki made...She was my girlfriend ...my best friend ....sister in law and such a wonderful person to myself and our family she will always be a treasure to us in our hearts....and we shall forever miss her.

"I have held many things in my hands and lost them all,

but the things i have placed in Gods hands...those i shall

always possess."

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER

I would have talked less and listened more.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even

if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.

I would have taken time to listen to my grandfather

ramble about his youth.

I would have never insisted the car windows be rolled

up on a summer day becasue my hair had just been

teased and sprayed.

I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose

before it melted in storage.

I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried

about grass stains.

I would have cried and laughed less while watching television

and more while watching life.

I would have gone to bed when i was sick instead of pretending

the earth would go into a holding pattern if i weren't there for

the day.

There would have been more "I LOVE YOU" and more " I'M SORRY"

....but mostly , given another shot at life i would seize every minute and look at it and really see it....live it ...and never give it back.

I today will tell my best friends that i need and love and that my life would and will be and is empty without them!!

this was written by Erma Bombeck

this is for me to read so that i can remember that

You cannot live forever....but you can live differently.....starting right now!

PHOTO"S

*I did photos of her Large

*younger ones of her and the kids

*1981 reunions for the siemens

*Vicki at Marks wedding

*Lyndsay at the house with Qinton

*Grandma Vicki and Qinton

*us thro the high school years.

when i find others i will add them......