wordless tuesday!!

Random!

I am very glad that the Olympics are over. I feel like I just sat in front of the TV for 17 full days and did nothing else but watch tv, eat, work and sleep. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Olympics, I think our Canadians did a great job. There were alot of moments I was really proud to be Canadian but I think the best one was seeing Joannie Rochet win her Bronze medal for herself and her Mother.

A few weeks ago in Sunday school one of my little boys said something really funny to me. we were working on our activity sheets and there was a rose on the page and he tapped me on the shoulder and said I want to give a girl a flower. I asked him which girl thinking maybe it was a girl in our Sunday school class. the next thing I know is he is poking me and he said I want to give you a flower because I want to marry you. Oh to have the innocence of being a 4 year old. It was really funny but I made sure you not laugh out loud.

Also a few weekends ago I got to watch my two sister-in-laws play hockey for the very first time. They played in the EMcup women's hockey tournament. They both got to play on the same team. It was a lot of fun to watch them. Lorissa scored her very first goal in their 2nd or 3rd game. Their team did not end up winning any of their 3 regular games but won the very last one which gave them the bronze medal. I think they both had a really good time and were sore and tired the next day. Know all three of us girls have had a weekend of hockey. I played in the EMcup last year and my team won the gold medal. Ah fun times.

Our Trip To Saskatoon

Well our Drive to Saskatoon was quite eventful which was not good. Our car started acting up just after the Dafoe corner(the Red X) which is about an hour and a half away from Saskatoon (the red circle). At the Dafoe corner the car stalled at the stop sign. Tim just shut it if and then started it again. Then we went around then next turn and the cat would not go, when it would go it would only go 40km so we slowly putted along and after a bit we could get it to go 90km for a bit but then it would go down to about 60km so we drove all most all the was to Saskatoon varying speed from 60-90km. Then whole time I was praying just let us get to Saskatoon. This is the situation where I wish we would have had a cell phone. About 10 minutes out sided of Saskatoon the car was going 100km so we thought maybe it fixed it's self. When we could see Stoon I asked Tim if we should try to get to my mom's, which is on the opposite side of Saskatoon or just go to my Grandparents house which is on the outskirts of Saskatoon, the side we came in on, but Tim thought we could make it to my Mom's house. So we were doing well when we were almost off the the Idwyld Bridge it stalled again (the red X in the photo below) and the red circle was our destination, so close but so far. There the car stopped, we could not get it to start. After Tim spent some time fiddling around under the hood, and ran out of ideas we flagged down a car and called my Mom to come try and boost us. By this time it was 3:45 in the morning. The next morning I had found out that just before we called my Mom had gone into the basement to see if we had arrived just and she was just starting to get worried.

While we were waiting for them to arrive lots of people stopped to see if we needed help which was very kind of them. Once they (Mom and Bill) got there they tried boosting us but that didn't work so they just ended up towing us to there house. The next morning Bill and Tim went out and tried to get it going again. We thought that the gas line might have frozen up because it was really cold out that night and really windy. Nothing seemed to be working, so we towed it over to my Dad's house to put it in the heated garage. We left it there over night and still no luck. Tim had called his friend who was a mechanic and he gave us a few ideas. So we tried changing the fuel filter(which is what they guys are trying to do in these pictures).





So finally on Saturday morning we towed it over to Canadian Tire and there they fixed it. After all that it was the timing belt and the tensioner that needed to be fixed which cost us $600. What a fun trip to Stoon. At least we were able to get the car fixed over the holidays and be able to be back at work on Monday like planned.



The last 3 time we have tried to go to Saskatoon we have had car trouble, must be a sign...NOT. oh well we made it there(with a little help) and back safely.

The Driedger's came to Visit!

Our dear friends Bryce and Dielle came to visit us before we left for Saskatoon. We invited them over for supper on December 30th. It was quite funny, Tim and I were getting supper ready and we heard Jerome come home from work and I was going to let him know that we were having company for supper and when I got to the top of the stairs Bryce and Dielle were in our entrance way. They had just come in with Jerome and they were going to stand there and see how long it took for us to realize that they were there. I still wonder if Jerome know who he was letting into our house or if he would do that we some stranger. (I doubt it but one will never know). Anyways that is definitely something they would do and made me laugh. After supper we played a Game of settlers with them, it is kind of funny because Dielle and I kind of learned the game because our guys were fans of it. We might have even played it a few time a Bible school so it would have been right to not play it when they were here. After our game we headed over to Mark and Helen's to watch the last period of a world juniors game. It was really nice to visit with them since we missed going to Alumni weekend this year. I guess it will be our turn next to go see them where ever they will be next time.

And of course I had to take a traditional Ang and Elly picture to add to my collection.

Ah the memories from some of our pictures, good times.

Christmas #3

So Christmas Gathering #3 was in Saskatoon with my family. It was nice to be out there, I got to see some family that I haven't seen in 2 years which was great. My cousins have grown up so much since I have seen them last it is crazy. (while I was there my cousin's friends came over and it was crazy to see how big they are because I used to babysit them as well when I was younger. that makes me feel old!) So our trip out to Saskatoon was unfortunately eventful but that is it's own blog post. We got to be in Saskatoon from the 31-3. On New years evening we watched the Canada play a world junior hockey game against USA, while we watched from home some of my family was at the game enjoying the atmosphere and the great game.

The next day we all went over to my aunt's house. There we played poker, Wii and Karaoke'd, table tennis and just had fun. The Wii entertained us for a few house. We were plying on the Wii fit for a long time, my grandparents even gave it a try. I made my mom try it and it was really funny, she was laughing so hard she almost peed her pants. If you know my mom she gets like that some times but it is really funny. But while we were playing on the Wii I found out that she gets it from my Granny. Too funny.

We also got to go out for supper with my Dad, my Brother and His girlfriend. It was nice to see all of them again and just take some time to catch up on the time gone by.

All in all it was a great time in Saskatoon. Nothing beats getting together with you family and just having fun.

A quiet relaxing Christmas

So Christmas around here are pretty quiet. On Christmas Day we spent the morning together, just the two of us and in the evening we had Tim' parents over for supper. We figured out where a leak on our house was coming from, it was the dishwasher that was leaking and dripping all the way in to the basement and getting the drywall in the basement bathroom wet. So Tim went and ordered a new pipe for the dishwasher and then we will possibly fix the basement bathroom. At least we caught the problem before it got too bad but we are assuming that it has been leaking for quite a while and that the previous owners never noticed or just ignored it. Oh well.
On Boxing day it was quiet too ,we just spent the day at home only leaving to feed Lorissa's cats. The weather the night before made the roads really icy. We watched a few movies over the weekend and just took advantage of having a few days off where we had nothing planned.
On Sunday we went to Church in the morning and then over to Mark and Helen's for the afternoon and evening. Helen and I went skiing. It was fun, I have not skied in a few years, we had the perfect weather. Helen's cat and dog both decided to join us on our little adventure and on they way back we had to wait for the kitty to catch up to us. We also played a really old board game called Situation 4. In this game you have to build a puzzle. Both team have the puzzle piece for the whole puzzle but it is a race to finish it. It is a neat game for being made in the 1960's.

So yeah finally we had a quiet weekend alone all to ourselves. It was fun.

I hope everyone a had a great Christmas.

Suprise parties!

Since we have moved into our house we have been able to throw two suprise parties. One worked better then the other but they were both lots of fun. Back on October we threw my sister in law Helen a party. That day we were supposed to be hosting a wind up for Tim and the boys soccer team, but it ended up that only a few guys would have been able to show up

So we ended up telling Helen that it was still the Soccer wind up when it actually was a suprise party for her. We even parked Tim's parents vehicle in the garage so she wouldn't see it. I think she was suprised. So that was the very first suprise party I had ever thrown. It was lots of fun.

(Helen and her birthday trifle)

The next party was for my Brother in law JJ. This one didn't work out as well as they were the first people to show up. OH well we still had some decoration up and such. This time we were supposed to be having Bible study that night, so instead we invited out friends from Bible study over to help us celebrate his Birthday. We played some games on the Wii and the Girls had a game of Settler and the Boys also played some hockey on the Play station. (this is JJ blowing out his candles on his cake)