We had a nice visit with Brie this weekend. She didn’t know that she would be waking up early on Sunday for blueberry waffles and a parade! Here are a few pics from the Forsythia Festival.
We think we should get Poppy to audition for – So you think you can dance..
Dance -1
After a quick wardrobe change
Dance – 2
What do you think?
So everyone gets to talk about all the good things they do here so I’ve decided to share the link to look at all my favourite pictures I’ve taken.
Jason isn’t the only one who has the eye.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreajwing/
Aren’t I great??
Poppy is really enjoying daycare, or ‘school’ as we call it. March is ‘all about me’ month and each day a child does a small presentation about themselves and Teacher Suzie writes down what they say. Poppy did hers yesterday. As you can see, Poppy is as cheeky as ever.
The young couple invited their elderly pastor for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the minister asked their son what they were having.
“Goat,” the little boy replied.
“Goat?” replied the startled man of the cloth. “Are you sure about that?”
“Yep,” said the youngster. “I heard Dad say to Mom, ‘Today is just as good as any to have the old goat for dinner.’”
For Christmas, Nanna and Poppa (Mom & Dad) got Matthew a gift that would let Matthew “dig” for dinosaur bones. It was a block of sand of some kind, and there was a toy dinosaur inside in pieces. It would have taken Matthew a few years to chissel out the pieces as they were in there pretty good. Even Lisa wasn’t able to help much. The set came with “tools”, but I even had to get out a real hammer and chissel to get the “bones” out. Regardless, Matthew had a great time, and we made a huge mess (you can see stuff all over the table and floor). Here are some pictures.
Matthew “digging”:
You can see lines from Matthew’s goggles:
Here is the raptor that we put together with the bones we dug out:
Hello again family,
The wedding invite is done it just needs to be printed now. Jason worked very hard on it and it looks amazing. You will all be receiving a “real” copy do not worry. This in not an “evite” I just wanted to share because I am so excited and so happy about it!
For the next two, you can click on the picture to see a larger version:
I’m sure most of you have heard by now that we are going down to Florida in February. Lisa’s parents have rented a house for a while, and we are flying down to spend 8 days with them. We happen to be going when it is Mike’s birthday, and we will be going to Disney World that day. Well, the park heard about it, and this video was released. Wow, when the Rowland’s celebrate, they sure do it big!
Hello Family!
Ron and I are so excited. We have heard back from Balls Falls and we got Saturday March 28th!!!!!!
We will have an Hors d’œuvre, dessert and dancing reception at the Balls FallsConservation area at 6pm.
Jason is making beautiful invitations as we speak, so they should be out in the mail in a couple of weeks if not sooner.
I will keep everyone updated as time goes on.
For our Family Home Evening this past week we reviewed the year and talked about what we were looking forward to this year.
Here, in no particular order, is our list of things that were noteworthy in 2008:
- Andrew ate lots of Nanna’s hospital food
- Andrew got 2 trophies from bowling in the summer
- Lisa got a new calling (released as Primary Music Leader and called as Enrichment Leader)
- We got a new van
- Andrew got his own room
- Matthew got his own room (because Andrew got his own room)
- Matthew got out of Nursery and started Sunbeams
- We got some of the bathroom redone
- Christine kept getting cuter
- Graham kept his calling
- Matthew learned how to write his name
- Andrew learned to tie his shoe laces
- Christine learned to walk (it was a Christmas miracle)
- Andrew passed a swimming course
- Matthew passed a swimming course (Sea Turtle)
- We put in new tiles in the kitchen
- Andrew really got into LEGO
- Christine says “Hi” to everyone
- We spent a lot of time at the hospital visiting Nanny, Mom, and other people
- Andrew spent the March Break at Grandma and Grandpa’s house
- Graham started a monthly father/son night
- Andrew started grade 1
- Matthew started JK
- Christine turned 1
- Matthew turned 4
- Andrew turned 6
- Andrew was the student of the month in SK
- Lisa went in her first craft sale
- We went to Buckhorn
Here are some things were are looking forward to in 2009, or things we would like to change (quasi-resolutions):
- Andrew will start grade 2 and turn 7
- Matthew will start SK and turn 5
- Christine will turn 2
- We will go to Florida in February
- Julia will get married in March
- Both boys want to pass another swimming course
- Matthew would like to whine less (honestly, he said this himself)
- Andrew will listen better
- Lisa will be more fun (when she said this, the boys yelled out, “Yay!”)
- Lisa will exercise more regularly
- Graham will be less of a “junker” (this is the boys nickname for Graham because he always gives them junk food)
- Graham will keep working on the house
- As a family, we’d like to do monthly service for someone
- Lisa and Graham want to get to the temple every month.
In case you were wondering, Graham and Andrew stayed up till midnight on New Year’s Eve. Matthew was allowed to, but was too tired to stay up so he went to bed. Lisa was obviously allowed to stay up, but slept on the couch for a couple of hours. Lisa, Graham, and Matthew were up for the actual date change at midnight.
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