Two things have made me update this blog. One would be my sister Jo who in her busy schedule has updated twice in the last month, and two I think Amanda told me to and history has taught me not to mess with redheads (Angelikas sister is also a redhead). Summer has ended and that glorious season of fall is coming which means a new start to a new season...more specifically the office,ncis los angeles and some show called the event. Lots of people say tv is a waste of your time, even people who watch lots say that, but is it really.. Yes. it is. but who cares if i didnt watch tv from 8-10 what would i seriously be doing with my time ? Me and Angelika both enjoy sitting down together and cuddling on the couch and watching our favorite shows, we had long days at home or away and our ready to enjoy the peace.

A few things not tv related would be Angelika and the baby occupying her tummy, as always things are going well and we look forward to the arrival of another little munchkin in January, as per usual anyone under the age of 40 is pregnant in our church again so there will be whole new round of babies to compete with.

The Deck. Yes it is done, a few minor cosmetics on the lower portion but it is quite usable just in time for fall, the fences are done also, approximately 150 feet or so, i love building fences and would do that again anyday. The yard needs more dirt but that will fill up soon and we will plant grass as early as possible next year so we have a nice lawn to go with the fences and deck. I should put in writing that pretty much any who reads this will be invited to multiple bbq's next year as i will be happy to trap your kids in my yard while we all sit on the deck relaxing.

Here a few pictures of our kids who i think had a pretty great summer.

Christmas time

Christmas is mint. I love the last day of work before the big break, normally we work half a day on christmas eve but not so this year, the lack of snow this year has bin dissapointing but we made sure to enjoy whatever snow we got, a walk with family in fort langley and a walk/sledding with michelle and terry and kids. we have had lots of people from our church move into our area this year, there is now four couples only a few blocks away now, its cool running into people on the street or the local superstore. Me and Angelika both love Christmas i love snow and she loves to decorate the house, we are looking forward to hanging out with family and relaxing and enjoying Christmas, which as we keep telling madison is Jesus birthday. Hope you all enjoy your break and relax and get a chance to reflect on how blessed we are all.

Lukas turns one !

Today we celebrated Lukas turning 1, the usual cake and coffee and our parents over to celebrate. I cant help but look back over this year, i know Angelika would agree with me and say the first 6 months were lousy, madison was easy and lukas was not. Like all parents that are frustrated with a child you just need to look at them while they sleep to remember why your doing this. I still find it totally awesome i have a son, a boy, someone to pee in the trees with, someone to wrestle, someone to play lego with. I look forward to all these boy things and i can see the boy coming out already, he climbs everything,eats everything, smiles when you body slam him into the bed. he is my boy.

Wanna Box ?
His first Canucks Jersey

i say it in almost any picture involving Angelika but she is so smokin.

California

Thursday 10 am.  Wednesday 8 am. two times that are seemingly unimportant. The first is when my cousins were traveling back to their home in California. The Second is when i told Angelika that we should go with. 

After much begging and pleading with my dad (1 of my 2 bosses, the other was on vacation luckily) i was able to get the time off work, Angelika took a little more convincing but eventually agreed. Josh and Rachel (my cousins) were happy and suprised i manage to pull this off, so we set off for California. near the alex fraser bridge i got a call saying they had a flat tire. 1 hour later.

The Border. 90 minute wait to cross so we went to the duty free bought a bottle of water and cut down our time considerably (remember this if you ever take the truck crossing) as we crossed the border my cousins got pulled over and were delayed 4o minutes. We continued without them and would meet them in portland, that was at 12:30, some horrific traffic and a few cities later they pulled in at 9:30.

Okay its a new day, everything bad from the first day is behind us. this day starts good as our hotel has no breakfast and theres does, so free breakfast and a good start to the day. we have 8 hours of driving ahead of us and this day goes well, it is just long. one incident involves a cop and two minivans doing u-turn across three lanes in a intersection. my cousin saw the cop directly behind him but did the u-turn anyway following me as i attempted to find the I-5 again. A warning is all he gave and we were on our way. the second involves madison pooping her pants while swimming, luckily she is out of the water for this. 

Getting closer now the next day is a shorter drive only 6 hours or so, but we drive so efficiently that we skip our stop and just keep going to there home which adds about three hours. An awesome stop at the the California Pizza Kitchen for dinner and then we are home in Corona, California.

What an awesome week we had, went to the beaches and got nice and tan, jumped waves, attempted body surfing, went to the olive garden with 5 kids. Did some shopping with only one kid while madison shadowed Elise (my cousins 5 year old daughter). we hung out at home and played in the pool, my cousin josh cut my hair using a trimmer and i was so impressed we bought one and Angelika is now in charge of cutting my hair. We had a great time and were very impressed with the kids while driving, the tvs we bought for the way home definitely helped though. 

The drive home was boring compared to the way down  as we had an exciting destination and some adults to converse with before we went to bed. I think me and Angelika looked forward to the continental breakfast every morning. On the way home we did see a car pulled over and about 40 bags of marijuana laid out on the freeway, did i mention the 5 cop cars also. The scariest moment involved a pee break at some hick like gas station, As you head into the bathroom there is a an old cast iron tub with a full dressed up mannequin sitting inside, it shocked both of us and it was awkward peeing while it stared at me. 

Now that we are home it is time to get back to normal life, August was a good month as i only worked 6 days which was pretty sweet. Work is getting busy and side jobs keep piling up so its good to be home and get back in the groove. Hope everyone had an a awesome summer.