Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

47th Anniversary

October
Dad & Mom's 47th Wedding Anniversary

Congratulations!

Bouts came and made their special day much more special. Enjoying a delicious fall harvest meal of roasted root veggies, boerenkool from our garden, baby greens salad...


  At Chris's for Kenny's 12th birthday - the baby of the family is growing up! 
 
 Good to visit with Mark too who was home on a break from Ottawa U
Also went for Josh's 16th earlier in the month
(wearing Opa's klompen in the Spring)

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Friends at RLL

Friends
 

 

 


 
 
 

 
 


 
(holding their box gardens made with Oma)

 
 
Thanks for the nice shots, Sharon!

Monday, July 16, 2012

Sewing lessons with Oma

In July, Oma gave sewing lessons again - this time for Anneke & Sarah

The girls did a great job with their bunny pillows - completing them in 2 days
 
 
 in between playing outside and Sarah learning to roller skate!







They also found lots of time to take care of 2 little girls they rediscovered who were needing some attention


                                                                                                   Oma got more than she bargained for!

Bed time!
 

In case you haven't figured it out yet, these 2 are dolls!  - so life-like that even Tia was fooled at first! 
On first sight, Tia went eagerly to them waging her tail and reached forward to lick Emma's hand suddenly starting back in confusion when she realized something wasn't right about this! She hid and then cautiously approached again only to jump back again. So funny - we laughed ourselves silly!
In this photo she's finally figured out she could safely come near.


So nice to be able to have our special girls/cousins who are such great friends over for a couple days! (tho I was feeling a little left out they were so busy together!) ;)
 
Wednesday we brought Sarah home and on the way stopped to visit Klaas & Ann in their new place - as we had promised to do - and left Anna there with her grandparents since her mom (Rachel) was coming the next day. 

What a nice place they have so close to the lake!

Sarah & Anna even got in a dip - no bathing suit? no problem!
 
 It was nice to see K&A happily settled in and not so terribly far away!

These parting shots were taken at their last lunch visit to our place before they moved away 


We miss these dear people at church especially!
 

Friday, May 25, 2012

Victoria Day Friends

 A lazy, relaxing, "gezelig" day with my friends:  Rebecca & Emebet


Puppy patiently endured the the posing contortions she was held in! LOL!
 

 
 

A visit to Awesome Blossom to enjoy the flowers...
 
 


 




Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sandbanks Company

After a fun, busy time (& thankfully accident-free) with the family at RLL, we went directly from RLL to Sandbanks with Maurice & Rachel. They had a nice (albeit open/windy) spot just down the road from us for the weekend.


A cutie who's supposed to be sleeping... having too much fun for that!



As you can see the weather warmed up very nicely on Sunday and the beach cleared out so we had it all to ourselves!






The next weekend the Pastor B & Joanne came for 4 nites with their nifty swing-up A-frame!


Sunday evening supper at a gourmet beach-side diner!



So neat to be able to spend that time together with this dear missonary couple, and our former pastor and Dad & Mom's long time friends! Lots of swimming (at least Joanne, Dad, & Mom), star-gazing, and good conversations. Good to hear again how the Lord continues to bless the Migrant work and ELM.



Thursday, December 31, 2009

More Christmas

The week before Christmas, Ralph & Sharon received their best Christmas present from the Lord - a precious new healthy beautiful baby boy! David Calvin Brink was born on December 14 at 3pm! They have great aspirations for him as you can tell by his name: David "a man after God's own heart" and Calvin after the great Reformer, John Calvin (in honour of his 500 year anniversary!). Congratulations! May the Lord give you wisdom and strength to raise David along with your other precious children!



We had the fun and privelege of caring for the youngest (until baby) and the eldest. It was a joy to hear Bethany singing away as she played (her favourite was the Latin carole sung at the Christmas program - "Nobis Paches"


Rachel, "Betty's mommie" was a great help! She's a pleasure to have over too.




On Christmas Day, John & Betty and family came over to help us celebrate Christ's birth and eat a delicious full course turkey dinner! Thanks Mom!

Josiah (& Joanna) spent much quiet time watching the slides on the digital photo frame!



We enjoyed a quiet afternoon together and had pizza for supper - first time some of us have had it in quite a while - thanks Betty for making it! Singing caroles ended off the evening very nicely and the next morning they headed back home - staying just long enough to see Emebet as she arrived to visit us until Sunday.









Watching a cute "Christmas" video with Emebet. We always enjoy her visits too.
Rebecca is back home in Malaysia for a month.


Merry Christmas everyone!
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,
that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13