our new front door.

In the last month we've been busy again with this and that.. in early November we installed our new front door and painted and stained the door and trim. Earlier then that we received our first snowfall of the year. When Derek got home from work he and Katie made a snowman. The snow was perfect for this and it ended up being quite a tall one.. Katie thought it was just the coolest thing and kept saying "Katie likes snow.. "
The last few weeks we have been busy planning our trip to Australia. We have now booked our tickets and hope to arrive DV, February 23rd 2010 and spend four weeks there before leaving Perth March 26th for Sydney here we will spend 3 days before leaving Sydney for Vancouver and home 30th March. We are very thankful and excited to be going back finally, its been a long time now since we've been in WA.
The days are getting shorter now and there is definately less sunlight but this just means we have to make the most of the sun we do have, like this morning Katie and I walked up town and got the mail and did a few errands.
We are very excited together with Derek's brother Steve and his wife Cece with the birth of their long awaited second child a daughter, Emily Janina. And we praise the Lord for this miracle of new life. Now we are waiting on Roze (Derek's sister) who is also due soon..
A month before this Ivy (Derek's sister in law) had a baby girl Myca Rachelle. So the family is definately growing!!!

the door before it was stained and painted..

our front door, stained and painted..

Its Fall and we are nearly done our renovation!!

don't you just love the pink walls??

tearing apart our old laudry room

writing a cheque already!!

eating lunch on the deck..
this is what lunch looks like after Katie's been at it :)

enjoying the sun..

on the tractor at the fair

one Sunday afternoon with some friends we drove up to Silvern Lakes and hiked the last part..

it was gorgeous up there!!

oh there's the rest of our house!!

a rare photo of me with my darling daughter, I'm always the one taking the photos!!

feeding her baby, whenever she asks for a bottle I tell her to feed her baby a bottle instead.. its worked so far..

we joined some friends out at Babine Lake for the day

Katie's 2nd Birthday!!!

opening the pressies

sitting with Jillian, her family came over to help us celebrate!!

Monday Sept 7- the day we installed stairs, the front doorway and also made the front of the house presentable

taking out out our old front door.. Katie got quite upset about this, she kept saying, "Why the door" wheres the door going? .. kinda understandable seeing as its been her door for as long as she can remember..

house wrap..

our only entry at the moment..

using our stairs!!

Katie lying on the couch like we do..

putting in some windows, we currently have 4 out of the 8 ordered, the rest should arrive any day..

getting a bigger bedroom..

handing Daddy a screw.. she's our regular little helper