Saturday, June 14, 2014

A few from the past few nights... 
My long necklace broke, so I went onto Etsy and made a new long necklace for my birthday. It has the girls three birthstones. I love it! 
 A bunch of ladies planned a get together for my birthday Monday night at Original Joes. We sat out on the patio all evening and had such a wonderful time! 

Steve's birthday I took him out to Genoa bay- it will always be our favorite spot.We enjoyed such a wonderful, quiet evening together, with delicious food! 



We had three showings this week, and we also checked out another home. Two of the three people who looked this week loved the house and wanted to make offers but both have to sell their homes first. On on salt spring and the other from Nanaimo. So here's hoping! But we haven't found anything for us to move into yet, so all in His timing! 

During one of our showings in the evening we walked down to the river- fun photo time! 





This girl has been walking all over the place this week! But I can't say she is officially walking, because she still gets down and crawls when she wants to go quickly!

Steve went out fishing one morning with some buddies and caught a 17 lb salmon.

She loves the strollers and her Dolly's it is very cute!


Birthday Weekend

Last weekend June, 7th I turned 27. The girls woke up bright and early and Danika cut up all our fruit and made me a fruit salad and Steve made poached eggs. Later In the morning Steve took Danika for her birthday present... to get her ears pierced! She has been wanting this for quite some time, so we finally did it! We did some serious research and Steve took her to a tattoo parlour in duncan, that many friends have recommended. Danika was absolutely terrified as the piercer looked pretty rough. He told Danika they were putting hoops in and apparently everytime he turned around Danika was shaking her head wildly because the guy had huge hoops in his ears! Steve said that it was a really good experience though, he put on numbing cream and Danika didn't even feel it. She was very excited! 
In the afternoon my Aunt and Uncle from Oregon came up to visit. They stopped by in the afternoon to drop off boxes of delicious food and drinks! We were so spoiled. After they checked into their hotel in Duncan, they came back and Uncle Gary helped Steve set up his Birthday/ fathers day present... a new BBQ. We finally caved after a couple bad ones and bought a Weber... hopefully it lasts a long time! 
Auntie Dolores and I took the kids and dog for a walk and once we got home we ate delicious BBQ'ed steak, a few different salads and then they brought us a birthday cake complete with Champagne and Martinellis for the girls! 
It was a lovely evening! 

The next morning was Danika's birthday. We woke up, she opened a few of her presents, had french toast with whipped cream, sprinkles and a candle! 
Beautiful new dress from grandma
We went to church and then met Uncle Gary and Auntie Dolores at Birds of Prey. 
It was very interesting... we spent 4 hours there and stayed for both flying demonstrations! 


 This is a stork... he was hideous! When we walked up I told the girls, that that was where babies are from... I got quite the laughs from other people around... but the stork did deliver babies on Dumbo! 
 We brought Lize along for the day, the girls had lots of fun! It was HOT outside!
 We left Amara home with a babysitter, as it would have been impossible to sit and listen with her. Plus it was during her nap time, so it worked out perfectly! 
We went home for Danika's requested birthday dinner of a taco dinner and then we got to open some presents. The girls both had new wardrobes from my mom and Auntie Dolores. I remember as a kid when Auntie would come up from the States with giftbags full of clothes and the girls got to experience that. Dolores went into the room with the girls and they did a fashion show for us. They were pretty excited at all the beautiful new clothes!
We had a wonderful weekend! 


Friday, June 6, 2014

Perfect day for a Wedding!

Last night we went to a wedding to celebrate Kayla and Dennis Gillard.  Kayla has been our church children's ministry leader for the past year and the kids just love her. It was a beautiful evening celebrating at the guest house at camp (where we used to live!)  The girls had such a wonderful time. We left Amara with a babysitter as we wanted to be able to sit and enjoy, and she did wonderfully with the babysitter... almost too wonderfully! She didn't even miss me! 




 Beautiful little set up, with the ocean behind 
 Penny and Adessa 
 Best Friends- Lize and Danika 
 Adessa and Kailey 
 Girls snapped one of us
That little cottage behind us, was our first home on the island, for a year! It was neat reminiscing last night, and how God has worked in our lives since then! 
Steve says I apparently talk everytime he is trying to snap a picture... here is the evidence!
 Beautiful sister shot
 Steve made me... can you tell I felt awkward?!
 Beautiful girl
 My loves 

 Cutest 



 There was a dance... the girls started interpretive dancing... Too much sugar! 
Such a wonderful night with so many of our good friends!

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Church at Qwanoes

This past weekend was the Camp Qwanoes work weekend... the weekend Steve feared every year. It is a wonderful week for the camp as so much stuff gets done, but gearing up for it was extremely stressful for Steve. He doesn`t miss it at all! 
That being said, a bunch of our church members had attended it, so our church service was combined and we went there Sunday morning. It was gorgeous out. A nice service, with a HUGE plug (like 30 minutes) to financially contribute to Qwanoes and send your kids... we don`t miss that speaker! 
After the service we stayed with a few family friends for a picnic. It was really nice! 







When we got home, everyone was sweating. It was HOT!!! So we set up the slip n`slide in the backyard and the girls had a blast!