Camping trip!

Here is the much awaited video of our camping trip, I will post a video of our new dwelling sometime in the next week.

A trip to Cape Breton!

Curtis and I were able to get away to go camping in Cape Breton. We went w/ some friends, the guys did a lot of hiking and cliff jumping :) The wives just stayed on the beach! Here are some shots of the guys jumping it the ocean and rivers! I will try to get a video of them jumping in the ocean on here soon. Right now we are doing some crazy packing!! We leave for Brazil in 1 1/2 weeks!!! Our visas came in today! :) So all systems are go :)

Curtis has some pretty funny facial expressions :)

A visitor from Indonesia.

Curtis did a presentation for our junior church service. He had a guy from Indonesia come along to help show how different another culture could be! The kids were a little nervous at first, but they started to warm up after a while, Curtis showed them a little bit of what it takes to learn a language that has never been heard before.

Now believe it or not........................ this is me (Joanna) in these two pictures :) No one in our church believed it was me, they honestly thought it was a guy from Indonesia!!! I guess I did a pretty good job acting!

Summer days :)

Natalie has been enjoying the many flowers around the house, she know which ones she can pick And know, just about, all the names of the flowers in the garden!

It has been quite hot the last couple of weeks, the kids have enjoyed "swimming" in their little pool.

I've been enjoying having a camera again, So I will try and keep this updated more often :)

Stranded on an Island!!

At the end of Lobster season, Curtis' family would go out to an Island in the Ocean and have one last "feed". This was the first time I was able to take part of this :) My sisters were also up, And Ruth loves Lobster :) Curtis and I would much rather have something else. Reuben, on the other hand, polished off alot of muscles (spelling??) and some Lobster.

There were 14+ Lobsters there most of which were over 2 lb!

Ruth getting ready to dig into her Lobster :)

Why have seafood when you can have a hot-dog??

We are trying to decide if this will be our new prayer card picture. It's kinda hard to fix your hair when the wind is blowing. But I like the background.

This is what Natalie calls a smile :)

It was a really pretty island w/ lots of berries growing on it. Later on in the summer there will be strawberries, gooseberries, currants, blue berries and black berries.

It was a long day for Reuben, he finally crashed on Uncle Craig's shoulder!

Natalie thought it would be fun to pretend to be asleep like Reuben.

It was a fun day, and the rain held off until the last boat load of us got on shore :)

Rain and mud puddles!

My sisters came up for a visit along w/ my two nieces, it was a fun week AND a busy one! Friday it rained really hard and started hailing as well. It rained so much that down town was flooded! The water was up to the headlights on the car down town! So by the time the rain stopped there were lots of muddy puddles to play in :)

Little Gwen "scooting" around on the floor.

Reuben obviously found the mud puddles :)

Chloe giving Reuben a kiss.

Here is a nice close-up of the muddy face.

Reuben and Chloe were having a great time looking for bugs under rocks and plants.

In this picture you can see Reuben and Chloe in their search for bugs, Natalie doesn't like bugs of any kind (such a girly girl) so she is picking flowers :)

Natalie letting Chloe sniff her flower :)

A walk in Victoria park.

Natalie has enjoyed all the flowers, she loves learning the names of the flowers :)

Reuben enjoys picking flowers too.

The kids love throwing little stones into the stream below.

To tired to walk any more, it's fun to get a lift from Daddy

Which way will he go??

Natalie enjoys getting a lift whenever she can :)