RTH, visits November

Roy Thompson Hall concert, still a big thing for Dad & Mom preparing for it and singing - especially with a great number of their kids & grandkids in the audience! It took a lot of arranging and shuffling of kids to get everyone there!  The day after, Sat, they all converged on our place to get kids back to their rightful owners
and to help puppy-proof the back side fence. 

 

Lisa & oldest 2 girls, who were back for the concert also came for lunch. So nice to see them again!

 

 

While they were at the concert, I babysat "2 lil' giwls"  - quite exciting complete with getting to see a real firetruck - with the lights flashing!  "Pwetty cool!"

 

 

Birthday visit to Maurice &Rachel's


Jimmy & Willy

Cutie Marike 

Aww...

Joe

 

Storing apples for the winter

Tia sniffing out the bad apples ;)

 

 

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)

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!

 

Mark

Mark turned 15!

(holding his new Bible cover from Lizzie while wearing his illegal T-shirt from Heidi - you'll have to ask him about it)

Congratulations also to Betty!

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New regular visitors to our church

- one of the 2 families from Bulgaria had us over for lunch.

Such a sweet family with a really interesting background. Looking forward to getting to know them better

Tante Tena

We finally got coordinated enough to take Emebet along with us from downtown to visit dear Tante Tena!

Tante Tena has become like Dad's own aunt over the many years that he's been visiting and helping her. She is actually related - to Mom - Mom's father is her 2nd-cousin!