The going on of us!

Well life is good with the Linde family, just tired! The baby is now 17 weeks old and Christy's tummy is growing. We are settling well into our place in Quesnel and we love our house.

We are excited to have another child and we are looking forward to upgrading to a bigger vehicle.

We don't have any snow on the ground yet, but we did have a dusting a couple weeks ago.
Here are some pictures!

Trick or Treat!

So the kids are settling nicely into our new house. I guess I should mention, we have a new house! Just as I was getting depressed that we would never find a place this house worked out. Wes had fallen in love with it, but I felt it was overpriced, so we looked at some other houses and some rentals and nothing was suitable! Finally we decided to just go ahead and offer low on this one and after a couple of hours of negotiating, the house was ours! God provided it for us just on time. We were able to move out of our townhouse and move into this one the next day. Perfect timing!

Wes took the kids out trick or treating to a few houses. Jay was a penguin and Emily was a lion. She perfected her roar and Jay waddled from house to house. After the trick or treating Wes had a bonfire with the youth complete with fireworks.

SOLD!!!

As of Wednesday our house was officially sold! The closing dates are in two weeks so this means we can look for a house as soon as we get to Quesnel. I know that God will take care of that too as our house here sold when no other 3 bedroom had sold in our complex since we bought this one, and there have been many to sit on the market. We're pretty much all packed up and ready to go. Jay is pretty excited about a big truck coming to our house to take his toys to Quesnel. He was nervous about moving until he realized his toys were coming. He's already designated which ones will go in the truck and which ones he'll bring in the "green car". He totally understands that we are moving and he's pretty excited about it.

Here's some pictures from the week Wes was in Quesnel and I stayed with my mum and dad. (From my new camera Wes surprised me with for my birthday. He got a whole bunch of people to collaborate on it.)

Jayson blowing out my birthday candles

Emily and Emily

At the Vedder River

Grammie and Grandad's backyard

Emily's first pigtails

At the park

Cultus Lake

Rob and Karin newly married and flown in from Brazil

Auntie Jen and her new camera, just like mine!

On the move.....

We're on the move once again. This time we're heading North to Quesnel. Wes started his job on Monday, but is coming home on Friday for a couple of family weddings and then we're all going back together on September 16th. These past couple of months have been stressful and we're glad to be heading into a routine and a normal life again. So far Wes is loving Quesnel. I guess he's really a country boy at heart (except for the music of which he's definitely not a fan). He's enjoying the slower pace and the lack of traffic which is in stark contrast to the lower mainland. It's a very different place than we've ever lived before but we both have peace that this is where God wants us.

A couple of things to pray for....pray we sell our house in Cloverdale. The market is slow right now for several reasons, but our realtor says we're getting more action than her other properties. Along with that we need to find a house in Quesnel. A family in the church has a one bedroom suite that we can stay in until we have a house to go into, so we won't be living on the street when we get there, (which is good, as it's probably going to be COLD).

I'll write soon with some pictures and a kid update!

Slideshow

Here's a snapshot of our summer. Enjoy!

Summer so far...

Hey everyone. We've had a great time camping at Rathtrevor and working at Camp Qwanoes. We thought we should put up some pictures from our adventures.

STOP! and look at me!

Project: "Snack"

Last night Jayson and I had a chat before bed. Here's how it went...

"Daddy, my tummy's growling" Jayson asked, "Can I have a snack?"
"Are you hungry?" I asked.
"Mmmhmmm..." Jayson replied.
"Did you know that some little boys and girls don't ever get a snack?"
Jayson's lip pouted as he started to realize what I was saying.
"They will get a snack from the Church!" Jayson said in an excited tone.
"But what if they don't have a church?"
"They can get a snack from the kitchen!"
I said, "But who will give them their snack?"
"Their Daddy can give them a snack!"
"But what if their daddy can't afford giving them a snack?"
"Then... their Mama will give them a snack!"
"But what if their mama can't afford it either?" I asked.
"Then they will go to the store to get a snack!"
"But what if they just don't have money to buy the snack?"
Jayson pouted again and got a really worried look on his face.
"They have growling tummys" Jayson replied.
Then I said, "They always have growling tummys. They never get snack."
Again Jayson pouted and looked really sad... so, I decided that I probably got the point accross.
"But do you know what we can do Jayson? We can help those boys and girls get snacks"
In which Jayson replied... "We can give them a snack and some JUICE!"
"I think Daddy's going to pray and look into getting us to do this. Do you want to help give other kids a snack?"
"yeah, we will give them juice and a snack!" Jayson replied. "Then they will be happy and their tummys will stop growling!"

I went on to explain how giving up some of his old toys would also help make some little boys and girls happy. The older I get, the more I hate this world and how materialistic it is. It's so weird though, because my generation is caught in the middle of it. May it never be that our kids value the things in this world too much. May they be thankful and not hoarding, have gratitude and not spoiled like the generations before them. This is a lifestyle change for our family, I know. But you have to start somewhere. (just don't get me started with recycling and land fills)

more stories to come...

-Daddun

2 New Additions to the Family

And no, we aren't announcing the arrival of twins. Jay and Emily are getting a new uncle and a new auntie late this summer! Here we are picking up Uncle Rob's new fiance at the airport, freshly flown in from Brazil.


Upon arrival she decided my brother needed a haircut....


Congrats to Rob and Karin, and to Teri and Jonathan too!

We are now true residents of Cloverdale having participated in our first Cloverdale rodeo. We went to the fair last night and the parade this morning. Jay had a great time on the little rides and Emily was frustrated that she wasn't old enough to ride on anything. However, one friendly ride operator let Emily ride on Wes' knee, so she was a happy girl.



Here's Emily cuddling with Papa Linde a couple of weeks ago.



Jay's starting to ask questions about God. He always says that God made him and made Mama and Daddy and Emily. Today his burning question was, "Did God make treehouse?" Wes said that he did in a sort of round about way.

I guess this is all a little random, but it's my first shot at this blogging thing!
Christy

I said SCIENCE again!

We went to science world on Monday. It was a lot of fun and Jayson keeps on asking to go back! Here is a video that Christy took the other day.




On another note. Sophie is no more. She got really sick this week and the vet even suggested that we put her down. We are really sad for Jayson who loved her so much.

Canucks put out the Flames!

Christy and I had the chance to go to a Canucks game with a couple from our church that are season ticket holders. We thought it was really cool until we found out it was section 114, row 1, seat 1, and then we were ecstatic!
It was great to see the Canucks pull out of the slump they were in too. 6-2 win over Calgary. It was Christy's first time seeing a game and she said she likes hockey more now that she's seen it live.

Teri and Jonathan babysat and got our kids down no sweat.

We loved the night, and we thank Dan and Sue for the opportunity of a lifetime!

A day outside

We spent a lot of the day outside today, Jayson loved helping daddy wash the car and splash in the puddles. Emily liked exploring in our back yard too.

Here is a video from Dinner... mmm... squash soup!


Here are some pictures of the kids in our backyard...

Kid-profiles

I was thinking about an idea that would be kinda fun for the blog. It is kid-profiles! I'll just post some of the things that are similar or different about Jayson and Emily.

Jayson:
Age: 3
Nicknames he gives himself: little frog (used to be little horse), Diego
Favorite meal of the day: Breakfast
Favorite food: pancakes, mini-wheats, Peanut Butter and Jam wraps, Trident "Splash" gum.
Favorite books: Fox in Sox, God Makes Nighttimes Too, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Spots Big Lift The Flap Book, Dinosaur Book, My Little Goodnight Bible.
Hobbies: Cars, Trains, Diego megablocks, Little people barnyard, Little stuffed animals, feeding the ducks or chickadeedees.
Sports: Floor hockey with mini sticks, basketball into his ball-storage container
What he spends the most time doing: Tormenting the family cat
Favorite TV show: Treehouse (he likes EVERYTHING on this channel)

Emily
Age: 1
Nicknames that Jayson gives her: Baby frog (used to be baby horse)
Favorite meal of the day: there's a separation between meals?
Favorite food: The cat food, anything that mama is eating.
Favorite books: The ones with furry things and other things she can touch.
Hobbies: She doesn't have any observed hobbies yet.
What she spends the most time doing: running from one thing to the next, tormenting the family cat.
Favorite TV show: she can't sit still long enough for us to figure it out.
Favorite words: Dada, Mama, Jayson, Wow, Sophie, Uh-oh

I'll add to this later,
meanwhile. Happy Easter!
Wes

Vancouver Aquarium, AGAIN!

We went to the Vancouver Aquarium again today. It's nice to think that with Season passes it eventually becomes free.... like from now on 'till November 2008 every time we go is free. I guess we'll be getting our money's worth!

Emily is cutting more teeth, I know, last week was some molars on the top, but now she's getting new ones on the bottom. That combined with a rainy day is a good recipe for the Vancouver Aquarium. Here are some of the pictures!

Petrolium Jelly

Well, our little son had some adventures last night. He did not want to go down to bed, and when he got quiet we thought that he was asleep. But then, we heard the tap running so Christy ran up there and found Jayson in the sink. He was trying to rinse himself off from getting into the Vaseline. hmmm.... water.... vaseline.... clean? no. MESS!