one of my favourite things

birds on a wire....
love.them.
i love how they just balance there & watch me as i walk by.
i love their silhouette.




i am reminded of this verse when i watch the birds....
matthew 6:26~
look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
how great our God is!

one more mini coop update...

i'm sorry for blogging so much about the story of my cousin winning a mini cooper...but it's just soooo cool!!
she just emailed this little blurb that made the 'vancouver sun' newspaper,
here it is:
News
And the winner is....
August 25, 2010

Michelle Schouls has won her very own Mini Cooper, courtesy of Nood and Mini Yaletown. Michelle lives in Vancouver with her wonderful husband and lovely 6 year old son. As a professional architect, she is particularly fond of good contemporary design. On the day she entered the draw for the Mini Cooper, she was shopping in Gastown with her Mom and her two cousins visiting from Ontario for the weekend. It was a special day as she had not seen these two cousins in over 10 years. It was a day full of celebration and family bonding. The win of the Nood Mini Cooper topped off an amazing family experience and it will always remind them of all the great times they had together.

i know michelle is enjoying her fun car....the 2 cousins, well, they couldn't be more thrilled!!

my book worm....

you know you have a true 'bookworm' living with you when she enters a room saying~and i quote,
"i love the smell of this book"!!
my daughter eryn always has her nose in a book....she's read everything in this house a couple of times at least~well i kid you not!
she seems to associate a good book with it's smell,not by content like:
curious george~"i loved the smell of that book"
or even when it's a good book BUT doesn't smell good she'll say
"i have to hurry up & read this one b/c this book stinks~no literally"!
tonight was no execption.
she came into my room with the c.s.lewis book~the magician's nephew, for a friend to borrow saying
"i love the smell of this book...it reminds me of the time that you read this to me"!
i think i read that to her when she was 8 or 9.

"ya, so what if i smell books"?!?


eryn, you're sooo cute!!

one 'sommer' night

every year we get together with friends of ours~ jeff & maria sommer & gang and spend the day together doing something fun.
we've been doing this ever since our kids were wee little.
even though they have the opposite of us~1 girl & 4 boys & we have 4 girls & 1 boy, all our kids get along & it works great:)

since it's was a crazy busy summer that went soooo fast, we only planned an evening with them....that's all we could manage to swing~next year, better planning!
this year the sommer's had their niece with them as well, who is dani's age & they hit it off just grand!!

l-r:
eryn,dani,roni,wayne,maria,trevor,tanner,ian,levi,jeff,josh,niece deanna,nicole & jordyn


maria's more of a shutter bug than i am!


we head up to niagara falls to do the sky wheel. this thing is massive :/!!





each car was completely sealed with climate controls, lighting & music for your listening pleasure:)


maria & her boys, tanner & ian

it was a beautiful night & the scenery was spectacular from on top of the wheel.
sorry for the poor quality pics people~i just had a small cheap camera with me that didn't have a great zoom...oh well.



after our adventures in the sky we played glow in the dark mini putt @.....








from there we head down to the lawns right by the falls for the fireworks display(no dog this time!!:) )

once the fireworks were done, over to the golden arches for some icecream...MMM!




tanner testing a new way of eating soft serve icecream ?!?(alrighty then!)

michelle's mini cooper....

well, here it is.
michelle picked up her mini august 23.
great look'n car cuz!!