Vacation Time Part II

A few images of Angelika on the Trip, she was there also. 

Vacation Time

I was afraid to tackle what amounted to like 300 pictures after our vacation, but i have finally done so. There are many more on facebook but i chose a couple of our favorites.  This year we went camping to Osooyos state park but we were short most of the normal group and this year went with Steve and Rachel Golz and there kids (Kyle,Adrianna,stephanie,jessica). We had a great time with them and they even brought up a seadoo. I broke the seadoo....the seadoo broke while i was on it but it was the last day. The weather was close to 40 degrees over the weekend. We had a mint time with them and on monday they left, leaving me and angelika to ourselves for a few days, unfortunately it started raining that night and downpoured the next day, after a few hours of this and being trapped inside i decided to pack up and go to a hotel, so we did all this in the pouring rain and made our way to the holiday inn.

               We spent a few days at the holiday inn and our parents came and joined us for two nights. We had lots of fun mini-golfing and go-karting with them, madison went with me in a go-kart and also went bumber boating when the golzs were there. we finished off our week in shuswap lake with friends(karen and Skylar) from invermere, the weather wasnt good or bad but we got some more mini-golfing in and had fun watching the kids hang out together. Fires and smores were a big hit, so was the substantial amount of junk food karen brought along. 

              In other news my work schedue was changed quite substantially, instead of meeting in New Westminster at 8 and not starting work till 8:30-9 i know go to 160th street and meet at 6:15, the bonus is i get home alot earlier but (try) to go to bed earlier. So far i like the new schedule. Angelika is going to be in her last week of work after tomorrow and October 17 baby is due so lots of changes going on again. Time for some sloppy joe's. 

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.

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