Awesome August

getting rid of our brick chimney it cracked in the whole lifting process

Katie in her car, gotta love garage sales

our deck with the temporary railing Derek made

jack hammering the chimney base away

Derek and Dad V lowering the sewer pipe

We camped at Fulton Lakes with Marc and Jody Schouten

Derek trying out the tube behind the dingy

One glorious afternoon we floated down the river in a friends Zodiak

packing the crush in preparation for concrete

Mulder Concrete came with a truck one Thursday morning

Some Boonstra guy helicopting the concrete

Camping at Thyee Lake with Gerry and Beth Devries & kids and John and Sheila Vanveldhuizen & kids

Katie enjoying the beach with Alicia Vanveldhuizen

Katie playing on the finished concrete

July 2009

Katie enjoys colouring

Watching Little Bear with her cousin Jamie

Aww, my tired darlings..

making the footings

Surveying our front deck which has to go..

Katie loves Cooper and Bella the two neighbour dogs. She said their names before she said Max

This way in the Fall Katie can help too..

the posts and footings

The new beam holding up the middle of the house..

trench Derek dug by hand to lower our sewer pipe

Camping out by Doris Lake

Katie loves throwing rocks in the water

getting some loads of crush..

staining the fence

raking smooth the crush, next step concrete