Thursday, August 02, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Matt's New Toy!
All thanks to Gary! (not a good picture)
Monday, July 09, 2007
Time goes by....
...maybe sometime in the future...
- 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:- 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!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Miscellaneous Pictures
When they first came they were adorable, however my brother soon reminded me that 'in six weeks off goes there head'!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Brockville Conference
Unfortunately my camera is a piece of junk and quickly becoming worse so the pics aren't the greatest quality but here's a few anyway.Standing around before the hike waiting for everyone to come.
From left to right: Natasha, Ashleigh, Mike, Devon, Sarah, ?, Jen, Jason, Matt' shoe, and Chris' shirt.
View from the top of the 'mountian'.
Matt and Issac
Rhonda, Jolena, Nancy and Sarah at the top of the mountian.Jacqueline and Jeremy (our speaker),That evening we went to Dan's house and played some sports and had a campfire.
Sarah (the one waving), Richard and Michelle
We stayed at Ashliegh's place. They had a gorgeous house and property.
Here's the view out of the front windows:
We had an awesome time. Thanks again for everything everyone did! Looking forward to next year's!!Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Walk-A-Thon
Ashton enjoying the jumping castle.
Susie between two of her new-found friends - Samuel and Daniel.
Mike getting a snake painted on his arm. Snakes were all the thing this year, all the kids wanted them.
Susie getting a baby deer, and Owen waiting in line with his 'sword'.
Prizes go to the people who gather the most money. Mike and Dave got first place and their prize: a portable DVD player and an awesome case to go with it. They were thrilled.
Toronto Zoo
My friend and ancestor!
Random
A zebra - in case you hadn't figured it out!
A giraffe, I've never seen them do the bending at the kness thing....looks very uncomforteable.
A big, fat lazy rhino!
They had so many signs warning of bears it was ridiculous. I mean of couse there's bears, it's a zoo!!! Hello? They made it sound like they have bears wandering all the zoo pathways and you should usually try to avoid them! Duh?
Here's the scariest of all the bears!!! Like the sideways effect? :)
Mr. Boa Constrictor!! David doing one of his favourite things.....chasing the millions upon millions of Canadian Geese that were wandering around the park.
Chris at the man-made but cool waterfalls!
Mike - I'm not sure if he's trying to give me a hug or a punch..? The latter seems more likely.
Susie in the rock caves.
Matt a sittin on the rocks.
Matt and Chris