A pic for Grammy and Honey's Bday

This first picture is especially for Grammie. Before Bruce was born she bought this fabric thinking she would make herself a maternity coat. Well, it never became a coat but this fall it became 2 jumpers for these 2 little girls :) Hope you like them Grammie :) Honey especially likes hers. Jam really likes the buttons but wants me to move them up high like Honey's. I may do that for her. Here's our 4 year old with her new stamps.

Showing Woofy the Woofy cake.

In the midst of it all. (And showing her Moorcroft side... she had to pull this skirt on right away over her other clothes to try it on. )

Oops, missed one of fall's big events :)

Yes, the big 40 happened in this house this fall. Thanks to everyone who came to Bruce's surprise party and helped him celebrate. And thanks to Sabrina who couldn't come due to sick boys but sent this fantastic cake anyway :)

This fall in pictures

The time is flying along and I'm not here much so I thought I'd add a bunch of pics today. The order will be messed up as I still have trouble knowing how they'll load but here they are.
Rockhounding Playing in the leaves with cousins.

Enjoying the big leaf pile.

On the Eagle's Nest.

One of our nieces. She looked like a little bird in her nest of pine needles but the pic doesn't do it justice. Still, had to share it.

Jam playing baseball in her jammie pants.

For his Bday present we got Bruce this US camo outfit from a surplus store. He's pretty excited.

Grampa waiting for the rest of us to finish up our walk in the woods.

To those who were there... can you tell she's about to fall? Poor girl. This pic still makes me laugh.

Some of the cousins

Grampa and Honey.

40 candles can really melt the chocolate on a cake!!

See, that's a lot of fire for one little cake!

Here we are enjoying the fair. This was the first year we tried the midway. The girls and Bruce had fun. I confirmed the fact that I don't care for rides. I did enjoy the rest of the fair though. The highlight for the girls was watching a cow have a shower. I don't have a pic here of that. Thought I did though...

Being firefighters. There was a hose to carry and a tunnel to crawl through then they had to throw bean bags at a pretend burning building to put the fire out. :) Fun.

Can she bake an apple pie...?

Yes, but she's a young thing and cannot leave her mother :)
We had fun making an apple pie one day last week. Don't worry she's using my dullest paring knife on very soft apples. I don't know what kind they were but they were so easy to cut. She had a lot of fun. It was her first time being allowed to use a knife. I was impressed with how uniform she was able to keep the pieces.

She could hardly wait until her lunch was finished to have the first piece. I had thought we'd save it for supper but it was worth cutting into it to watch her enjoy what she'd helped to make.

Grade One

This week Jam started having homework to do each night. Everyday they have a word of the day. Monday's word was me. Tuesday's was is. Here she is showing off her finished homework. Basically it's lots of practice writing the word of the day. On Friday there will be a spelling test of the week's words. Monday she loved doing her homework but not Tuesday. She still struggles with making the letter s so it was a lot more frustrating writing the word is over and over. It was fun to cut the letters out and glue them on the paper though. She does know how to make the word, just not that pesky s.

Here we are walking to school on the first day. It's just one km to the school from our house. And here are the girlies just before we left on the first day of school.

(Oops, I've gotta edit that pic Honey's wearing a nametag from church. My photo editor isn't working just now so I'll get it in here later.)

Bedrooms

Here's the green room :)

Here's the pink room :)

A taste of Honey :)

Well, there's too much to catch up on between the last post and this one so I'll just start here and skip the summer. I just looked back over this year's posts and found Jam monopolizing so here are some Honey pics. My personal favourite from the summer.

Ice cream

Driving Daddy's old car.

So, one day she said come see what I made. And here were a whole lot of letters of the alphabet on the chalkboard. She hadn't copied them from anywhere, just made them from memory.

Yes, still likes her thumb.

We're nearly ready

Last evening we took 2 van loads of fragile stuff over to the new place.

Tomorrow is the big day :)

Kindergarten Graduation

Backwards order again. Someday I'll get it right. Anyway, here are some pics of Jam's graduation.
She got an award for improvement.

This is her teacher.

Getting her diploma :)

Getting some help onto the stairs.

Before we left home.

Today we got the key to the new place

We got to take the girls in for their first look around. They had a lot of fun. Honey told me she'd yelled and yelled to me from inside my closet and I didn't hear a thing. I guess it's pretty sound proof. I was just in the room below her. Here's our new house #. We think God took our 83 of our present address and blessed us a hundred fold... 8hundred3.

Now the cleaning begins. It needs a good scrubbing. Any advice on how to get stains out of the carpet? There aren't many but some in Jam's room. What would you use to wash the walls? It doesn't look like they make Spic n Span any more and that's what we always used to use.

Our Next Home :)

(someday I'll figure out posting blog pictures I'm sure... but here's one I accidently deleted then tried to reinsert where it came out but of course it just posted here at the beginning :)
This is the dining room.

I'm pretty sure I'll never fully understand why God does what He does!! This home is definitely an indication of how interested God is in our individual lives. I mean, many of His children all over the world live in cardboard boxes, does He love them any less than He does me? No. Why did He ever allow me to live in this free country and then on top of that allow us to move to this beautiful place? It is overwhelming. If he wanted us to keep living in a basement apartment would He love me any less? No. Would He have provided us with the grace to live underground again? Yes. I really believe God does not bless us because we are good but because He is good. I don't deserve this place any more than any other of his children, yet this is where He provided a place for us to live. God of all the universe heard the cry of His children, us. We asked Him for windows. We asked Him for someplace close to school. We asked Him for a good school neighbourhood for Jam. Those were our main requests. (A man at church told us that his main request was that God would put us above ground.) Sometimes over the last month or so we even doubted that He would provide those things. Not that He could, but that He would. Now look at these beautiful pictures and join with us in rejoicing. Thank you so much to God for this lovely house. Thank you to those of you who prayed for us. Please be sure to praise God for His answer. Thank You!!

Oh, God, may we bring glory to you by our rejoicing and in just living in this place you have provided, Amen!! This is the west side.

This is the North side (back yard).

(no, he's not being frisked, just measuring the garage wall)

This is facing west from the back door.

Here's part of the living room from the landing. (facing south west) It is about 7:30 pmand the blinds are fully closed. Look at all the light!!

This is looking west from the landing and out the door.

At the top of the stairs looking down to the living room.

At the top of the stairs looking south toward the girls bedroom doors.

Master bathroom.

Kitchen. I really like the white cabinets!!

Well, from these pics I'm sure you can see why we are so excited!!