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Our family at a lunch stop in Hinton
We have been having adventures.
We were in BC for around 10 days - first we enjoyed the May long weekend with my extended family. This is an incredible tradition that everyone looks forward to. We had to miss last year's since I was very pregnant and travelling at that stage in the game wasn't a good idea. It was wonderful to see everyone. I have an incredible family. I grew up thinking that having such a loving, faithfilled, fun, hardworking, supportive, connected family was normal. I have since found out that this is a rare treasure. I am very blessed. We stayed in cabins at a resort in Naramata - near Penticton. Some highlights of the weekend - taking the kids swimming for the first time - they loved it. Especially Elijah. After we got out he was reaching and leaning to go back in so he and Lance went in for another dip. The Sunday morning family church service was special as usual, hearing different family members sharing from their hearts, singing together. The family baseball game was also a highlight. Probably the top highlight was watching Eva and Elijah interact with Oma and Opa (my grandparents). Grandpa and Grandma have many great grandchildren already, but I could tell by how they played with and spoke to Elijah and Eva that they treasure each new family member and love them deeply.
After the weekend we went home to mom and dad's. Lance took a class at Regent in Vancouver. He has been chipping away at his Masters degree. He loved being back in the school environment.
We celebrated my birthday (the 28th) and Eva and Elijah's birthday (June 6) while we were in BC. We will celebrate the twins' real birthday here next week.
We got to visit with Grandpa and Grandma Wellunscheg twice. They really enjoy seeing Eva and Elijah.
Lance and I had our fifth anniversary date while we were out in BC. Mom and dad babysat for 8 hours!!! I haven't been a part from the babies for that long ever - not even at night! I wondered if it would be hard for me to be a way that long... nope, not a problem at all. I hardly thought about them. I knew they were in good hands. I thouroughly enjoyed the afternoon/evening with Lance. We enjoyed dinner at Browns Social House on 4th in Vancouver - I had an absolutely incredible thai noodle salad, complete with avocado and mango, Lance loved his coconut curry dish. The we shopped for sunglasses for me. Lance says the ones we got are stylish but don't have attitude, and that this is a good thing. Then we went to a Regent public lecture. Yes you read that right. We went to a lecture to celebrate our anniversary. The lecture was by Marva Dawn - we took a class from her a couple years ago. Anyways when Lance mentioned she was going to speak I knew we just had to go as part of our date. It was really good to listen to an intellectually stimulating, humorous and challenging talk. It was like a little trip into a world that I'm not really a part of right now. All in all an excellent evening.
I need to get to bed. I have many more things I want to write but have been staying up too late lately.
Exciting garden update to come.
Hope you are well.
Aimee
ps. if you are in the area tomorrow you should come by mainstreet camrose. it's jaywalkers jamboree (a street festival) and Lance is playing a little show at 5pm on a stage near Merchants coffeeshop. Hope to see you there! |
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Well, we FINALLY have internet at home again. Lance spent many hours on the phone with Telus trying to sort everything out. He got to the point of trying to cancel, told them this and was then informed that you cannot cancel your services without first giving them 20 days to try to get your internet connected. In the end it took more than 20 days but we are sure glad to be reconnected to the world wide web.
I started writing a blog after the tour and before Easter. I never finished it, but I'll post it anyways and then get on to fresher news:
Well, you’ll be pleased to know that internet is on the way. Soon but not yet.
The trip was excellent! There were some difficult moments – kids strapped in carseats during 5 hour drives, not very breastfeeding friendly, we made things work, but I won’t go into the details here. I told Bonnie and she thought I should tell Camrose’s La Leche League Leader – thought she’d get a kick out of it.
Highs from the trip – walking across the river valley on the skytrail bridge in Outlook, seeing daffodils and crocuses in Lethbridge, getting a haircut, having Elijah fall asleep in the Ergo Carrier during one of the shows – very cozy, getting to hang out with students – I didn’t know how much I actually missed being so much a part of CLBI student life, watching the students pour so much energy and heart into each show – wow, seeing so many friends and lots of family, having a quick visit with my folks…
We are glad to be back. We are looking forward to getting back to “normal” (is there really such a thing?) life. Lance led the music for the city wide Good Friday service today, and was busy with rehearsals this week for that. So now he can finally relax.
Can’t believe how Easter snuck up on me this year. I had intended to read all four gospels and “The Jesus I Never Knew” (Phillip Yancey), during Lent as preparation for Easter. I got through the book – well, I’m saving the resurrection chapter for after Easter, and through most of Matthew and Mark. I’ve been reading them in the International Children’s Version. For some reason I’m really enjoying the simplicity of the wording and how there are asterisks by things that might need explaining with notes at the bottom of the page. I have also really liked the Yancey book – I will read it again. It is a good fresh look at Jesus, helps me to see him more as real – really human, really God. That he was born into a time and culture. One thing that really stood out for me was when Yancey wrote about Jesus’ restraint. So many times he could’ve used his power to prove himself yet chose to allow for free will and not make people believe.
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Okay now back to today.
The weather has been lovely the past while - with the exception of a few snow days - yes, snow in April and May. That's Alberta for you.
Anyways I have been gardening and just loving it. The garden I intend to grow vegetables in is full of weeds and perrennials. I've moved the perennials to the bed behind my deck and am excited to check their growth daily. I still need to deal with the weeds, and then get the soil ready for seeds. I've never had my own garden (well for a couple years when I was younger each of us kids had our own raised bed to grow veggies and flowers in - we weren't very dilligent so didn't have much success. This was where I discovered Zinnias - I couldn't believe we had grown them in our garden. I bought Zinnia seeds this year and am excited to see if they're as incredible as I remember them) Bernell (Lance's dad) used to own a greenhouse business and knows all about gardening -- this is good. He says vegetables have to be in between the 15 and 20 of may. That means this next week will be a busy one. I often garden with Eva on my back -- this is usually when Elijah has gone to sleep for a nap, but Eva is resisting. After a little gardening she falls fast asleep -- we then come in, I lay her down and we all nap.
Well speaking of napping, it is soon naptime as I can tell by the fussing. I will post more later, including pictures.
It's good to be back.
Aimee
ps. tomorrow is Lance and my 5 year anniversary. wow. we plan to celebrate when we're in BC because as Lance pointed out there are more fun things to do there. Neither set of Grandparents are up to having a sleepover with babies who don't sleep through the night (which is totally understandable). So we won't be going on an overnight getaway but will hopefully find some daytime adventures. okay better go.
okay two pic, about a month old:
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