thanks Grandma!

Grandma made Aleida's sweet dress. There's also a hat and bloomers not shown in this pic. The 102°F day meant those items were not put on her yet.

photo blog time...

Owen caught a fish and was about to hold it (below picture) it flopped out of Ry's hand which made Owen VERY scared of it! It took a lot of convincing to get Owen to pose near the fish (see next picture).

Owen loves writing on top of words I've written. He'll do this for long periods of time.

lazy hazy sunday

I haven't updated our blog in FOREVER! Yikes. Life has been busy, but I don't have an good excuse - I've just forgotten!

We're having a nice Sunday today. We've been relaxing and playing quietly. Aleida took apart her bed after her nap today (meaning she tossed out everything in it, including her mattress) and was sitting very content on the wood slab bottom. So, I gave her some books and 30 min later, she's still babbling happily. Owen is crafting away, the dining room has never looked so fulfilled. I touched up paint in the kitchen and front entry way. Those are areas of the house that seem to always need paint touch-ups.

Last night I used a couple of shirts that Ry and I don't wear anymore and I made myself a brand new shirt. I'm happy with the results! It will be a fun new summer shirt.

catch a cold.

We've run into a bought of sickness this past week. The kids are fighting a snotty, deep cough. Poor kids. Their moods have been amazing given that they feel crappy. We've been doing a lot of tea drinking, movie watching, and taking it easy. Now so long as Ry and I don't catch it . . . 

we will move.

I realized I should update the blog with our latest big news:

Ry was accepted into Princeton Theological Seminary's PhD program, to begin fall of 2011! This is the school that he most wanted to be accepted into, so we're thrilled about it. Though less thrilled about the move, of course. But alas, at the end of the summer, we will pack our lives up into a big truck and head East, to Princeton, NJ. We'll be one hour from New York City, an hour from the ocean, 7 and a half hrs from my parents, 10 hours from Toronto, and 10 hours from New Brunswick. It will be a treat to be East! Certainly we want as many visitors as possible. And we have hopes of making as many road-trips as we can manage. It will be a major transition, but it is one that we've been gearing up for ever since Ry discovered his passion for theology. We're so glad to be taking this major step toward him obtaining his PhD.

owen's brilliance revealed.

Oh, Owen. What a kid. And Aleida is being her sweet, smiling self.

hibernation

The cold continues and our time indoors has remained sane. We've gone our for walks and time outside when the temperature has been about 20F. That's not too frequent. But we have 'school' on Wednesday morning and church on Sunday and I think those activities have been really key for our winter survival.

To pass the time and really feel cozy I've been making a rug. My progress is slow but I hope to be done in the next couple of months.