Matt's New Toy!

The other night my Opa took my family and my Uncle Ron's out to the Mandarin! We had an awesome time and ate ourselves almost sick! But hey what esle is the Mandarin for?! :)

After we went to my Uncle's and saw his relatively new house. There we also got to check out my cousin Gary's electric guitar. He bought it out in Edson, Alberta when he used to live out there. Anyway he had a nice system and he got Matt all pshyced up about it, so Matt went out last night and got one for himself!

It sounds pretty cool and I'm pretty sure it won't leave Matt's arms for a while! The only way I managed to get this picture is cause he's gone to work...he said this morning when I dropped him off that he's going to be thinking about it all day!

All thanks to Gary! (not a good picture)

Time goes by....

How quickly time flies! While the hours from 7:30-5 in a stifling greenhouse often seem to drag by unbearably slow, when I look back over what has happened in the past few weeks I am amazed again at how fast life is flying by.

Graduation took place and I never posted pictures of the event...I apologize for that. Unfortauntely I still don't have them on this computer so they're still not going to get posted

...maybe sometime in the future...

Here are a few notes on what's happend in the Boekee lives in the past few weeks...

- Track and Field Day came and went and was again one of the hottest days of the year. Devissers came again to our place and stayed the night.

- We had an amazing July the 4th weekend. On Saturday we spent the day in Orono park. Orono celebrated it's 175th year as a town. Some of the festivities included a CF-18 jet which flew overhead and two parachutes (with people - I can't think of the right word) landed on the baseball diamond.

From left to right:

Scott, Matt, Kara, Mike, Chris, Melissa, Nicole, Me, Janita and Susie, with Mark sitting up top.Sunday we left bright and early. We went to church in Toronto and from there we went to my Uncle Art's and Aunt Jeanette's and had an amazing weekend and made memories that will last for years to come.

- Playing in the sand dunes and gravel pits and getting sand in every single part of our body.

- Singing 'The Pirates who don't do anything' and 'The Wheels on the Bus' in our tents at 12:00 in the morning.

- Playing a three hour soccer game with a score of 4-4. How many times did we say 'Next Goal Wins'. We literally played for almost an hour and a half with no scoreing. We finally declared a truce and all won!

Wednesday we welcomed back Opa and David from there 3-week journey out west. They had a wonderful time and we thank God for the safety they had on their trip.

Friday our YP hosted a fundraising baseball game in Orono park. it was a great success, beautiful weather and we had an awesome time.

The latest exciting news is all the rain we've been getting lately. After a long dry couple of months we are finally getting rain again. Our God is faithful...

Last night we had an powerful thunder and hail storm and a breathtaking lightning display. Today again we had little thunderstorms all throughout the day we torrential downpoures which lasted for a few minutes each. The temperature here in Orono was 45 with humidity. Between the pool and our air conditioned bedrooms we are all surviving the heat.

Hoping you all are having an enjoyable summer!