Monday, August 4, 2008



I started downloading photos off our camera today and as i went through them i couldnt help but laugh, i thought i would share some of the photos that made laugh the most, the photo where she is wearing my glasses reminds of someone but i cant place who but it looks very familiar. 
         In other news some friends of our, Andrew and Rachel Cornelsen had there baby (4 weeks early) on the afternoon of there cousins wedding. Pretty cool story as Rachels hair and make-up were done so she looked pretty smoking when  she came in. We got to see Asher Cornelsen on tuesday night and then again on Sunday as we spent the day talking,walking,eating roll kuchen and watermelon and watching movies. 
        The basement (shudder) finally got some walls put up, i helped my father in-law, well not so much helped as he told where to stand and what to do and HOW to do it. This meant i could finish off some plumbing and hang our cool little water heater on the wall (non-stop hot water,15 hour shower here i come) i also needed to turn our water off to change some pipes and as i was sitting in the crawlspace doing this Angelika came down and asked why there was watering bubbling out of the ground. So our water service had cracked and had to dig up the yard fix the leak temporarily and then on sunday morning before church i dug up the yard and replaced about 20 feet going into the house. that was a gong show. 
        We were around this long weekend for the first time in 4 years, usually we are camping but this year we will be gone from aug.15th - 24. hope your all enjoying your summer so far.


Sunday, June 22, 2008

Holland is out

I dont follow soccer much but whenever there is a world cup the very little bit of dutch left in me (mainly swear words and drinking my tea with milk) awakes to cheer for the Nederlands, they lost yesterday to Russia and now are out, so back into hiding it goes until the olympics.  
Since our last post we went to prince george to celebrate Andrew groses grad, we stole plenty of free pop and saw some people getting it on in a public park, classic prince george. We visited the Hubers of the North and i thoroughly remember enjoying some pie. We went out to moxies for dinner which was pretty sweet and even met Baileys parents (andrews girlfriend) all in all it was a good time, the drive home i was dreading cause it is quite boring, we had mark with us and he brought a psp to play he needed some protection from the sun so he wore madison sweater on his head for 2 hours. everyone pretty much slept and i was on my own for most of the drive. 
We finally got around to the basement again and made sone progress the ground is patched and now all the above drainage has bin replaced and is ready to go, next step is water pipe which i can do at night and then some framing. After repairing the concrete in the basement we had Andrew and Rachel over for dinner and we ended up talking till late into the night, it was fun and Andrew volunteered to tile my basement shower, which i of course will attempt to hold him to that. 
Madison is her usually goofy self and is quite fun to be around, she skinned both her knees walking on friday to the corner store and continue to pile on the injuried but she is tough and nothing really bothers her, she continues to love the outdoors and think nothing of TV and likes to climb and fall off things quite regularly. So you are now updated on our life, i geuss i should mention Angelikas pregnancy is going well, and other than some uncomfortable sleeping she is enjoying this pregnancy and the thought of being home again quite a bit.


Cache Creek, madison really likes mark


Skinned knees 
Rachel making a point is my best geuss

Monday, May 19, 2008

Invermere





Here are a few shots from our trip to Invermere. We had a blast as usual and always love going there, if only they were closer then we would go more often. Like last year, there was a mudslide again, except this time on the way home, it delayedour leaving time and caused us to sit in some sweet traffic once we hit chilliwack. Everytime we go up there we end up talking about how to move there and if we can make it all work out, on that note does anyone want to rent a house in delta ?         An update on Oma also, seems she has pneumonia, something called arteritis which gave her bad headaches and UTI which she didnt know about, so she is in hospital and recovering. They did a CT scan today and are doing another tomorrow and will decide if she can leave. Prayer for her and for a quick recovery.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Mothers day was one we will not forget too soon. It started with madison taking a ride on the stairway to hardwood, in which she got a nice plumpy eye. Then we find out that Angelikas mom has pneumonia and is sick as a dog at home unable to move. Afternoon rolls along and we get a call from my parents and my sister Alison, who was in houston for job training, arrived safely and two hourse later had a gun pointed at her in broad daylight and had her purse stolen. She is now back home as the company flew them home and she will finish training another time. A busy sunday but Oma lange is slowly getting better, Ali is home and madison became her bodyguard because of how tough she looks with the black eye.