In the blink of an eye

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

the power of words.....

this short film illustrates the power of words to radically change your message and your effect upon the world.

your words have power.
let's use our words for the edification of the church & furthering the gospel.

ephesians 4:29~
let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
{or like in the video...to those who see}

taken from the esv.

Monday, May 23, 2011

ottawa trip!

this year it was danielle's turn to go to our great country's capital city~ottawa with her gr. 10 class!

wayne went as chaperon :)....made me feel better that daddy was there for her!
i wanted to go this year b/c i has such a great time last year....i went with eryn's class last year.
but....they needed male chaperons this year instead.
they left from the school on tues morning with 2 buses b/c she is part of the biggest class in school.... 54, yes you read that right, 54 students in this years gr. 10 class, roaming the streets of ottawa for 4 days{i'm kidding, they weren't roaming...they were on guided tours ;)}
eryn's class was a meager 32 students....

fun with friends on the bus....

sorry, it's a blurry pic...
at the parliament building....

ahem.......some of these are my pics from last year's trip with eryn.....

{i never got around to doing a post last year}

view from across the river in quebec ~the back of the parliament buildings

with our local member of parliament~ dean allison...

.....he would drive around ottawa in a car with red plates.....'gov't official' plates, while the rest of the nice folks in ontario drive with white plates.

wayne & some of the guys who adopted him as 'dad' for the week.....

views from the top of the peace tower.....

looking up at the peace tower's big clock....

enjoying the tulip festival.....each bulb~a gift from the netherlands!

also blooming, our official provincial flower....the trillium

for supper the 1st night eating at the retro.....

'zak's diner'

every booth had the old table top juke box...fun :)

{...put another dime in the juke box, baby....}

tour of the diefenbunker.....

i have a retro desk just like this....just need the eames chair to go with it ;)!!

lllloooovveeeee it ;)....anything retro makes me happy :)!!

tour of the canadian war museum

The small windows on the 'fin' on the building, spell out in morse code 'Lest we forget' (in English) and 'N'oublions jamais' (in French).

they cross over the ottawa river into quebec to visit the museum of civilization...

as you can see this native canadian piece of art is featured on our 20 dollar bill...

about 1/3 of the class.....

free time....let's go shopping!

good times with friends....

<3 this store!!!!

allll candy my friends....you name it, they have it

dani found a helping hand for when she got tired of shopping.....i mean seriously though, she's in a shoe store~who gets tired of checking out cute shoes?!?

the last night....the famous talent show.

dani & her friends did a spoof on the 'napoleon dynamite' dance routine~'the rose' song

sad to say they didn't win the talent competition :(

they had a great time in ottawa....not always the greatest weather, but they made the best of it.
they packed alot into 4 days, so these kids were ti~urd when they came home fri night.
wayne had a blast & wasn't as tired as the kidos :).....didn't stay up quite as late zzzzzz!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

our dutch guests......

for the past 2 wks were privileged to have stay with us 2 teenage girls from holland.
a group of 45 students from a christian school in the netherlands had corresponded with 4 canadian christian schools last year.
billeting was required for theses students in groups of 2.

as apart of their course studies this year, they were to visit & experience the canadian school system.
10 of these students were assigned to our school.
danielle's gr 10 english class who did the corresponding last year were notified that 4 girls & 6 boys were coming.
besides seeing the area sights they were to go to school everyday with danielle & attend all her classes.

eryn right away said she'd give up her room....it has 2 single beds.
she'd sleep with jordyn in her big bed.

we were so excited to meet our dutch guests!

this picture was taken on my web cam.....
heeeey, we're dutch!!
nicky & paulien.
they are so cute....

they were pretty tired when they arrived at our house...11pm our time~5am their time

but they came with big smiles and spoiled us with all the goodies they brought...

these 2 are so creative, they made this little note book{on the left}~a profile of themselves to help us get to know them better.

it has pictures of their homes, family members, pets and fun little sketches they drew....sooo cute!

during their stay with us, we took them to the falls...

she just had to.......

doing the touristy thing.....

{ahem...little road construction going on :(}

check out the life size moose...

lov'n timmy's....

{& the mall!}

they made themselves at home here & fit in well with our family {our little kids just loved them ;)}

we saw their homes, streets & neighbourhoods on google earth.....

we taught them to play this fun game....

~good times, my friends :)!!

just relaxing....

over all the 2 weeks went great.

we totally enjoyed having these 2 stay with us....they were always so grateful of everything that was done for them~i think they even appreciated my cooking :)!

before they left, they presented us with a thankyou gift they made....

this adorable little painting!

our family.....
~i'm the short one in light blue....how ~~funny~~ true is that!!
on our side of the earth....the golden arches of mcdonalds, the skylon tower {n.f.}& a timmy's donut!
they even remembered to put mika in :)!