The forecast calls for snow tomorrow, either it will dump like crazy or it wil be nothing at all. Im always in favor of the word dump when its followed by snow. its bin way too long to try and update what has happened since last time, so here is a summary : snowed,wroked,snowed,stopped working,snowed,christmas,snowed,snowed, canucks start losing. now its the end of january and that is where we stand. Life at home is getting alot better with Lukas starting to fall asleep at a regualr time and sleeping till 4 or 5 in the morning and then back down till 8, he varies occasionally but we are quite glad he is getting on schedule. Madison is becoming much more challenging, and just needs alot of attention to keep her out of trouble. she is as cute as ever though and keeps us smiling. enjoy the photos.

Richmond Olympic Oval

On saturday we went and checked out the new Richmond Olympic Oval. It was a very cool building and nice to walk around in, we even got to skate around as they had free rentals for anyone who wanted to go. Madison tried a pair on and even they were to big for her feet we took her out for a skate, she loved it and we will be trying that again. Afterwards we were treated to dinner at whitespot by our parents and all was well until just before we left when madison peuched her little belly out, almost got in Angelika's mouth. Needless to say Angelika left the restaurant in a t-shirt even though it was bloody cold. Lukas has been sick lately and has a nasty cough and last thursday he was up all night so Angelika was quite tired. he is getting better now and hopefully everyone is healthy for christmas time. time for church. ciao.

Where to Start

A successfull family pic



Lukas
Quite a common occurance in our house, note the sweet tool belt


the best of all our attempted family shots, i gave up and started making faces

Life has been hectic these last few weeks, we realized have a easy first child is not good for your mindset, luckily Lukas has come along to help us change that. We are enjoying our time together as a family we seem so much more like a family with two kids now, maybe cause we take that much more stuff with us when we go out or maybe cause we each get to hold a child. 

Since the last update we took madisons out for Halloween to just a couple houses and she had a big bear suit on and looked pretty cool. She liked the whole idea of having a bag full of candy, as did i. Nov.10 was madisons 2nd birthday so we had both sets of parents over for cake and madison got absolutely spoiled, i still think she got too many gifts and will definitely be telling the oma and opas to calm down a little, you can always buy me a TV instead. 

Our first night away from lukas for some Jacob & Angelika time happened when the new James Bond came out, we went and saw it with Andrew & Rachel Cornelsen who are quickly becoming our best friends and we seem to mesh quite well, after the movie we went for some dinner and then hung out a bit. it was a fun date night and were hoping to do that again. 

Those are the majors things to talk about, we are looking forward to christmas and are picking up our tree this weekend, angelika is a bit off  christmas nut so the house will be christmas like very soon. I am off to go on a hot date with someone (Angelika) so time to take the kids to opa and oma humm. 

Big sister

Well, Madison is such a great big sister.  The first thing she says to me when i get her in the mornings is 'Lukas???"  Then i went to mom and dads and when it was time to go, Madison wasn't putting her shoes and Jacket on so dad said to her.  'Ok, bye madison.  Opa is going with Lukas, Bye, Bye.'  Man did we experience a freak out on her behalf.  Lastly.  Mom and i were in Superstore when mom started to walk away with the cart while Lukas was in it.  I wasn't going with her and Madison started crying.  I told her to go with Oma, but that just wasn't good enough.  She had to keep all three of us together.  Im so thankful that she adjusted so easily.  I think because she's so young still, she doesn't remember a time without Lukas anymore.  Hopefully she remains that way when we have another one.  Then she really can help me out more.