Michael John Armener was born October 3, 1976 at 6:58 am at Lethbridge Regional Hospital. We weighted 7lbs. 12 oz. Considering his delivery date was for 3 1/2 weeks later, he was a good size when he was born. And the appetite didn't stop there. COme meal times, he was like a little bird with his mouth open ready for any food that might be onthe menu that day.

He was a very happy child and formed some good friendships with others that lived on Eton Road. One of them was his next-door friend Justin. Justin and Michael developed a fascination with matches! This factor alone was trouble just waiting to happen. And it did just that. One day Michael and Justin were playing in Justin's wooden playhouse, when they decided to start a fire and cook their lunch on it! Luckily the boys were discovered before their fire amounted to very much. However, it was necessary to have the local fire department to do some critical teaching on the hazards of playing with matches. After watching a video on burn patients, Michael never played with matches again.

Traumatic as that experience must have been, he never objected to joining the Scouting program where he'd have to learn how to start campfires. Many summer and winter camps were enjoyed; espically the Jamboree at Camp Impose up by Beaver Mines, Alberta. But even that was interrupted, as Michael sprained his ankle. Much to his desires, he continued on in the Scouting program to earn his Chief Scout Award.

His talents didn't just evolve around Scouting. He had an opportunity to take piano lessons for a short period of time. For first year graduation, he gave a brief solo performance at the Lethbridge Library. He showed such promising talents with music. But it was shortly afterwards, that Michael moved to Australia so music was put on hold. It wasn't until he moved back to Canada in 1987 that he was able to take up playing the saxophone in Junior High School.

Michael always showed a humorous side too. GIven the opportunity to come out of his shell, he would be the sole entertainment often keeping audience laughing when least expected. When asked what he wanted to do when he finished school, the spotlight was appealing to him, so perhaps radio announcer or TV/host entertainer (like David Letterman or those on Saturday Night Live) was his most common answer.

But destiny would have him doing other things. So upon completion of Grade 12, Michael went on to serve a two-year mission in Taiwan. He embraced another culture as well as having to speak another language. But he adapted very quickly; as whenever letters arrived home, it was noted that his English was broken and his spelling was becoming more bizarre. His news contained mention of nunting snake and having to change his clothing 2 to 3 times a day due to the climate. Thank heavens for 7 Eleven and McDonalds being global though. They helped to make him fell right at home!

After completing a valiant mission, Michael continued to keep in touch with his friends from Eton Road. And he now attends College in Lethbridge taking General Studies.

Renee was a very small child for her age, her tricycle had huge wooden blocks attached to them just so her feet would be able to touch them. One bright summer day her shoe laces happened to get intertwined in these custom pedals, inabeling her to go anywhere. After sitting on the trike for a few minutes and crying out her mother and neighbor came to her rescue, luckily this didn't stop her from loving bikes.

She attended pre-school and 1/2 of kindergarten in Calgary. Then one dark night the moving van was loaded up and the family moved back to her home of the "Bridge". She was quickly enrolled in kindergarten at Gilbert Paterson Community School(Steve Goth was also in this class).

As her family was building a new house in a new development there where many situations that put Renee's better judgement up in the air. Building forts with scrap materials filled most of the days with pure excitement. One particular fort included a trip to the emergency room. the boys thought that it would be humourus to lock themselves in the upstairs part of the fort. Renee didn't like the idea of this so she wasa soon found scaling the outside trying to find a way in. Unfortunalty a nail which was put up to keep intruders out found it's way into Renee's head. It didn't hurt but the blood was coming out. As Renee came into the house a frantic mother and father grabbed her ran to the car and went to St. Mikes. It was nothing serious, she even got a grape sucker out of the deal.

As the years flew by the scars and different accidents began to pile up. Nothing was ever serious it was just one of those things.

Being outdoors was always one of Renee's favourite things. This continued on throughout her school years. By the time High School came around bridge jumping and trips to the mountains were very common. Renee was very lucky in high school to find a great group of friends. This group will now be refered to as "the little brother gang".

After High School Renee Headed down to Idaho and started attending Ricks College. The time there was great, many friends and great experinces but still coming home to be joind with the gang was the highlight of her life. unfortunalty the "gang" was being broken up. One by one each one left for different parts of the world. Renee now found no reason the next summer to return home due to her friends being away so she packed up her bags and moved to San Antonio, Texas. She spent a summer there then moved to Utah to study optometric assisting. After this she moved back to Lethbridge, the gang had been seperated long enough. Renee was happy to have her friends back. It was a great summer. But Renee decided to go away as well. She spent 18 months as missionary in South Africa. She loved her time there.

Renee never backed down to a challenge, maybe that's why she still holds the record for the most number of bridge jumps in a row(28) or why she loves going as fast as she can on a bike to keep up with the boys, or throws her self off huge jumps to land in a pile of snow. Her next challenge will be getting married. Check the updates for the info!

Right from the beginning Stephen had the wonderful ability of expression and humor. He kept his parents and siblings entertained at the dinner table and was always laughing about something or other. He was a child full of wonder and joy: and when circumstances didn't create humor, he would create it himself. Often at the dinner table his crowning achievement would be his bowl of spaghetti atop his head or, worse yet, atop hte head of his brother. He never seemed to be a baby, but right from the beginning had definite opinions about the primitive physical state of childhood and told his mother once that he was not going to sit on a blanket playing blocks because that was for babies. He was not yet two! Stephen voclaized early.

Stephen's favorite toy was a rolling yellow duck that took him to wonderful places on his street and in his yard. One memorable time, Stephen ventured forth against his mother's wishes and found himself lost. . . A neighbour working in his garden unable to keep the little boy in his yard surrounded him completely with thornless bailing wire. . . A few minutes later, his frantic mother found him. To her astonishment, he was playing happily inside a 6'by8' corral made by the kind gentleman who wasn't sure who the little boy was but knew his mother would be along.

Stephen always had many friends and loved the out-of doors and spent hours riding his bike, camping, skiing, canoeing, skateboarding and rock-climbing. He got so good at skateboarding that for years it was the first thing on his feet in the morning and the last thing he put down at night and he never went anywhere without wheels. In his late teens he traded his skateboard in for a snowboard and has loved that sport since.

While being very easy-going and fun-loving, he has a serious and responsible side to his personality which found him eventually working heavily in the summers. Through the years, as he got older and more often than missed later family vacations because of his responsibilities. As he always enjoyed-climbing, one summer was spent working for Marnie and Eric Anderson of "Awesome Adventures" during which time he also tried a bit of sky-diving. Stephen always enjoyed school and computers. He has continually supported the Church and at nineteen served a mission to Perth, Australia serving in the Mandarin speaking and English areas. He appreciated the scenery and the ocean of Perth and came back with a large vocabulary of Aussie slang which delighted his family and a firmness in his chin that was definitely Aussie.

Stephen was married to Katie Evanson on June 9th 2000 and are now living up in Edmonton where Steve is attending the University of Edmonton, with the hopes of going into medicine. Katie is attending Grant Maquen College, where she is taking nursing.