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Monday, April 16, 2012

Tagging along

This is a tag-a-long post to this one: http://sloverduins.blogspot.ca/2012/04/super-fun-and-beautiful-afternoon-at.html in which the details of our day are perfectly explained.  Enjoy my added pictures!
 
Riding the Ranger
 Enjoying the sunshine...tailgating :) and showing off the helmet...
 Ready to take off with Uncle Brian for the trip that needed the winch :)
 Sunshine, family, river, fire, marshmallows...perfect
 throwing rocks in the river...
Raring to go.  The kids enjoyed the quads that weren't moving just as much as the moving ones :)
 How many boys can you GET on a quad?!
 My beautiful little sis :)
 3 dirty girls...after a most wonderfully muddy ride
 Good friends
 Brynlie in her helmet...she didn't want to take it off
 And God's magnificent art
 One final shot of Bob and Daddy enjoying a ride
Thanks for joining us :)

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Good Friday

 Last Friday we joined Curtis and Monique in Vancouver for a couple of hours after church.  We biked the 3 km roundtrip at Rocky Point after a lovely lunch together.  The weather was great when we started out, but as we started bkin back, it began to pour, then hail!  Quite the soggy adventure, as Chelsie named it :).

Trying out the teeter totter
Working the digger :)  My special sister also taught a little boy how to run this machine
 A steep slide :)
 How many more can you get on the teeter totter?!  These girls loved every second of this thing!
 6 months married :)
 And it got darker...clouds coming in heavy...but a lovely picture with some special ladies
No pictures after we got drenched...didn't think about that as much as we looked for the heater in our vehicles!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We could always paint...

Sitting in the office with Chelsie...
"Mommy, where did we get these chairs?" (referring to the two office chairs)
"We've had them since we got married."
"Wow, they must be old..." (wait, it gets better ;))
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Well, we could always paint them!"

Definite reference to the activities of late...
a few things have been painted to give them new life.  Many have not been evidenced in pictures...but here are a few.

You may remember this chair, given to us by dear neighbours...it has a new look now!


 Another chair, also free to us.  This one had history, as it used to belong to Oma's sister and was bought by Oma for Willetta's house.  It had been recovered to work in Willetta's home, but didn't work in ours, as all of my red stayed behind in our red house :)  So a new, possibly more fun, life it got.  No paint here, only fabric and Briwax to darken the wood a bit.


 A more recent project, a $25 headboard found on Craigslist was even made in Canada!  It was supposed to be used for our spare bed, but found a new owner in Willetta, as we 'traded' the deals we'd found and kept the black sleigh headboard for ourselves :)  This more feminine one looked stunning in her red bedroom!


 A few ugly Walmart frames, a couple nice frames, some blue and white spray paint, and a nice gallery wall above the computer desk
 
 Another project, still in the 'paint room' will be a new toybox for our playroom.  Looking forward to getting it up here.  It's also going to be white...not very original, but safe for now.  Maybe once Rustoleum comes out with a nice turquoise, it will get an update ;)

 And we'll leave you with a smile for this rainy BC day...at least it keeps the grass green!!