More Snow :) !!!!!

Time for an update: We now have about 10 inches of snow !! :) yep, it's pretty much been snowing like a blizzard all day today - I'm glad I didn't have to go to work... getting up their hill would have been a little frazzling :) Tami said they have at least a foot at their house... So if school is still canceled tomorrow, I'll get another day off :) Soo.. here's some more pictures from yesterday - church was canceled, so we spent the afternoon and evening playing in the snow :)

I built 2 little snowmen on the back of my Jetta
(of course these are from yesterday, so today they're about
covered in snow, since I'm not brave enough to drive :)



Abby and Devon with their snowman - who was quite lopsided :)

Our house - looking so clean and white

My Jetta again :) so cute

Devon (with snow on his nose), Ginger, and me (looking a bit wierd) :)

MUCH EXCITEMENT!!!!!!

Guess what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? yep, you guessed it - it's snowing!!!!!! Big fluffy flakies and they're really sticking now :) This morning it was 'slushing' at church, and raining at my house, but now we have, according to Abigail's last measurement, a whopping 1 and a half inches :) actually there's about 3 inches on the roof outside my bedroom window..... I am in quite a deliriously happy mood right now :D lol

Out our living room window when the snow first started

The milking parlor, from my window

The driveway, from my window :) so pretty....

Church might even be canceled tonight if it keeps up like this... Rev. Vermeer couldn't make it this morning, and Mr. Tamminga is snowed in in Lynden, so my Dad is getting ready to read a sermon :) if church isn't canceled.... Pake and Beppe already have a foot and a half in Abbotsford :) LUCKY!!!! :) Peter's dog is going stir crazy outside, barking like a lunatic at all the snow.... yes he is retarded..... and there is one poor helpless left-over hornet from this summer on my window-sill, but at last glance he was turning into a snow-bee..... mwahaha :)

Good times :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

Remember, we all stumble and fall.

That's why it's a comfort to go

Hand in hand.

*smile*

I posted this in May of last year, but it's a nice reminder, cuz i like to feel happy:)
Think about them one at a time BEFORE going on to the next one..

IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD :)

1. Falling in love.

2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.

3. A hot shower.

4. No lines at the supermarket

5. A special glance.

6. Getting mail.

7. Taking a drive on a pretty road.

8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.

9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.

11. Chocolate milkshake. (or vanilla or strawberry!)

12. A bubble bath.

13. Giggling.

14. A good conversation.

15. Watching a sunset on the beach.

16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.

17. Laughing at yourself.

18. Holding a newborn baby.

19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.

20. Running through sprinklers.

21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.

22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.

23. Laughing at an inside joke.

24. Friends.

25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.

26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.

27. Your first kiss.

28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones.

29. Playing with a new puppy.

30. Having someone play with your hair.

31. Sweet dreams.

32. Hot chocolate.

33. Road trips with friends.

34. Swinging on swings.

35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.

36. Making chocolate chip cookies.

37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies.

38. Holding hands with someone you care about.

39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad)never change.

40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a present from you.

41. Watching the sunrise.

42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day.

43. Knowing that somebody misses you.

44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply.

45. Knowing you've done the right thing, no matter what other people think.

lol, i've actually done some of these....

Five Simple ways to have some fun;

1. Pay for your dinner with pennies.

2. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination

3. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.

4. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."

5. Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

Five ways to freak out your roommate;

1. While your roommate is out, glue your shoes to the ceiling. When your roommate walks in, sit on the floor, hold your head, and moan.

2. Talk back to your Rice Krispies. All of a sudden, act offended, throw the bowl on the floor and kick it. Refuse to clean it up, explaining, "No, I want to watch them suffer."

3. Collect hundreds of pens and pile them on one side of the room. Keep one pencil on the other side of the room. Laugh at the pencil.

4. Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so, look at your roommate and mutter, ''Soon, soon....''

5. Collect potatoes. Paint faces on them and give them names. Name one after your roommate. Separate your roommate's potato from the others. Wait a few days, and then bake your roommate's potato and eat it. Explain to your roommate, ''He just didn't belong.''

In the elevator...

1. When the door closes, grab the nearest person and yell, "ITS OK! THEY WILL OPEN AGAIN!"

2. Make a beeping noise every 3 seconds...don't move.....

3. Open purse and whisper, "Got enough air?"

4. Push every button on the way down.

5. Make a loud WOOSHHH when the door opens

yep. i guess i am :)

YOU MIGHT BE A DUTCHMAN (or woman) IF.......

You finish the food on your plate in a restaurant even though it is burnt or otherwise unfit for human consumption;

You reused plastic margarine containers long before anyone had heard of the environmental movement;

You have a two volume address book, Volume I: A-U Volume II: V-Z

Your main contribution to gender equality was the switch from King to Wilhelmina brand peppermints;

Your range of restaurants is restricted by the contents of a "Buy one meal, get one free" coupon book that you purchased to support missionaries in Sierra Leone;

You wipe the last of the butter out of the container with your bun;

Your mother's hairdo is the same at your wedding as it was at hers;

Your closet is divided into work clothes and Sunday clothes;

Your church attendance record is not disrupted by childbirth

Your Sunday routine resembles: church, coffee, roast beef, soup, snooze, and church;

You have a living room but never sit in it;

All your cookies taste like almonds;

You make the bed in your hotel room;

The last tip you left at a restaurant! was: "Don't wear so much makeup" and "A little quicker with the coffee next time";

You have always been to church on New Year's Eve;

You can sing "eere zij God" even though you can't speak Dutch;

Seeing raised hands during worship causes you to look around for a stick up man;

You are still trying to justify owning a dishwasher;

At your wedding everyone is swaying but no one is dancing;

You know what an afghan is;

You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear;

Your two permanent Saturday jobs are to wash the car and make sure you have enough change for the offerings;

All of your recipes are adapted to fit a 9 x 13 pan;

You can't imagine a funeral reception without ham buns;

The usher never needs to ask you where you want to sit

ohhh, dear...

la-dee-dah...... dee-dah-dee-doooooooo....deedly-deedly-deeeeeeeee :) i love to sing..




don't ask where that came from :)

I'm home - did you miss me?

Wow.. this weekend has been the most exhausting, "surprising", and wonderful one of my life so far :) (that I can remember, anyways)

So.... in case any of you didn't know, I flew out to Ontario this weekend to surprise Albert for his birthday. And suprise him I did:) but that's later.... It was a very last-minute trip - I didn't buy my plane ticket until Wednesday because I didn't think it was even a possibility for me to go. But then last Monday, my Dad kinda shocked me and said "You should go out and surprise him - it would be so fun!" Yeah, Dad said that!! :) I about fell over... so I asked Tami for the weekend off, and Wednesday morning she called and said she found someone to watch the kids for me. Let's just say I was super-excited:) just ask Abby - I was soooo freaking out while we were driving back from Smoky Point :) So I rushed home and bought an uber-expensive ticket and started packing.... I'm still wondering how I managed to use such a small suitcase;) Yah... so Thursday night, Mum and I drove up to Abbotsford and stayed overnight at Pake and Beppe's condo. My plane left at 6:30am and I stopped in Calgary and Edmonton and finally landed in Hamilton at 5pm. Krista picked me up at the airport, and we stopped back at her house in Pari' :) lol... then we went to Mcd's for dinner :P "LOOK!!! McDonalds!!!" is her new line :) hehe, good times.. so yah. We got to Jess's house while everybody was still out for dinner, so we talked to Uncle Art and Aunt Elsa for a while, then we went and hid in Jess's bedroom :) lol, i haven't laughed so hard for a long time - Krista seems to have that effect on me:) so yah, all the girls drove home together from the restaurant, and apparently they sped the whole way home so they could beat Alb, Greg, and Jer :) So when everybody finally got there, they all sat in the living room and Aunt Elsa got me to come downstairs. I just walked in and said 'suprise!" and Alb just looked like he'd been hit with a ton of bricks:) but that look made it sooo worth it :D yeah, i think all he said for the next 10 min. was "wow.... wow.... wow...." lol :) The party was fun.. i got to meet Jer and see lots of ppl again. We played x-box til like midnight, when Jess kicked us out:) I stayed at the Egbert's with Krista and Alb overnight. Saturday we spent the morning outside (BRR!!) 'helping' Beth with her horses, then we came inside and they played x-box again:) Then Alb, Jeremy, and I went to pick up Sean, then all of us went and played Laser-tag - that was a blast!! I got Albert twice and he only shot me once :) haha, i came in like 23rd :)lol... then we went and picked up pizza and went back to the Egbert's. I have breaking news now ---- I played Halo 2 for the first time in my life! :P and I actually got 2 kills :) haha... Sunday morning, Albert and I went to Nobleton for church and then to the Luimes' for lunch - LOL - Kenny is hilarious :):):) "Are you a boy or a Dad?" hehe.... then Alb and I went to his house for a little while before heading to his church. I got to meet all of his family finally :) Sunday afternoon we played some games with his fam. and we watched tv for a while - I fell asleep for a while though, i think:) lol Monday morning we stopped by his work so he could get the day off, then we stopped by John and Crystal's house, but he forgot the key, so we just looked in the windows:) Then we spent the rest of the day visiting Oma and Opa - that was a lot of fun:) I got to see lots of pictures - Alb, you were a cute kid :) lol so yah, i pretty much know a lot about his family now :) then we went to the airport.... blah :P I hate leaving... I didn't cry til I got to the airport in Abbotsford, though... as soon as Mum and Dad picked me up, I lost it... but whatever... it's only 49 days!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!!!!

so yah, today was a pretty crummy day.. I didn't get to bed til about 2, then I had to be at work at 9 since school was canceled due to the flooding situation.. the kids were little boogers today - gosh was I ever mad at them. :) Annie said she hates me... but then by tonight she was fine again.. talk about mood swings:) John and Michael broke a light and Michael got a bloody nose, then they decided to go 'swimming' in a huge 3ft. deep puddle.... (did i mention it's pouring down rain outside??) so when I got back from dropping Annie off at Girl scouts, I was greeted my two soaking wet boys with boots filled with mud and rocks...... ahhhh... good times. I think the only productive thing I got done today was finally get the freezer cleaned out :) it took me about 5 hours though, because the kids were quite rambunctious, so I kept having to play peace-keeper....

yah, so I worked 11 and 1/2 hours today after getting about 5 hours of sleep... so I'm going to bed. :)

oh, Alb - tonight I bought that CD we listened to like 4 billion times - i'm kinda hooked :) lol