house plans

So, today I show our house plans. In the meantime we have got the blueprints and made the contract with the builders who will build our house ​​in Manitoba. Yeah! Next, we need some estimates, and we hope soon to get the aprovel from the bank! Now, if all goes well, the house could be ready by the end of September, that it can be moved. Then we need to do some things, as kitchen and... and all hook ups have to be done ​​before we can move in. So the plan, let's see how the reality will look like  ;)


mainfloor

 basement... at first unfinished, but big guestroom is planed ;)

 sideplan

When all works out, we will have a wonderful house in the nice flat land ;) That's a dream, for sure!!!


Rita

Eyedoctor app. June 24th

Last Friday I was with all 3 kids for the eye doctor appointment in Saskatoon. The guys have been through most of the time great, am really proud of them! At least 4 hours drive one-way. First, we were at the Orthoptics. Noah Jamie was doing great and very cooperative. Last time he wasn't ... and has seen at least five striped disks with the right eye, this time he has seen 7:))) Then we went to the doctor, to the new (good) one ;). The doctor was recently at a conference in Vancouver and had personally talked with the two doctors we have to see. We should hear something soon from them, but probably it will not work out with both in one time, because one is pretty full and they are also in different hospitals. The doctor has examined Noah Jamie again and made ​​a video of him so that the doctor in Vancouver has a better idea. But she thinks that "the problem" lies in the nerve, so just something wrong "created" during pregnancy. And she is honest and I like that, she said I would like to say something good, but she doesn't want to make us any hope, because despite today's good medicine, is not all "fixable" ...

So now we're waiting on the MRI and the appointments in Vancouver.

Car show

I'm a bit late with blogging about some things... but here some pics from the car show :)
It was nice to see some old and lots of beautiful cars. The owner really can be proud of them ;)

Rita

more Flooding pics

Thank you for all who prayed for our city!!! The flooding is much better now. Lots of people with flooded basements are now renovating. Nick helped our frinds (Widemans) with ripping carpet out. But we are still on boil water advisory :(
After I saw pictures of Minots flooding (280km from us) I am so grateful for our "little" flooding here!!! Here some pics from last week.

 This is normally just field...

 Nicks company had lots of work, so they go by boat over "the field" :D

Crazy canadiens :D

JJ is already sooo big

JJ has so much grown the past time. He is getting so tall or his pants are getting short ;) He is also learning lots. Today he asked me how to write Martens and I spelled it for him and he wrote it... and not just wrote it, he wrote it upside down, because it was the way he wanted it :D With 3 years and 9 months!!!
He also endet his first year in Minigo/Preschool and he did a good job. Here two pics of the graduation celebration...

 JJ with his teacher Corinne. She is sooo nice and he loves her so much!

 Since Lukas is playing legos, JJ does too. Here he build a monster truck by himself :)

 He also wanted to help with dishes ;) He was sooo careful with the dishes... a bit to careful, like he didn't want to scratch it :D

Rita

Bye bye pastor Stephen

On June 12th we had to say goodbye to our corean pastor Stephen and his family. They are moving to Trenton, Ontario. Pastor Stephen arrived there after 3 days driving, his family will follow when their house is sold. Pastor Stephen was a big friend of all kids in church. They love him and he had always something for them, candys, suckers, crackers...
Minok was teaching sundayschool and worked in Minigo, where JJ goes to. The first time JJ was only going to her, till he got used to the others and we will miss her very much too. The 3 boys are very nice and full of joy and liked our germen "Haribo"-candies and my cakes. So we gave them one of our precious Haribo-packages and a big cake ;)
We will miss them here and hope, that we can visit them and the Glawatzkis in Ontario someday...

 The church is praying for them...

I choose this cake, because they bought this cake at the springsale in small and liked it so much ;)

Rita

Prayers for Weyburn

Please pray for Weyburn, the conditions are getting worse here. It's raining again and the water rises and rises. We still have a state of Emergency here. Many people have become not just rain water but sewage in the basements. We have a boil water advisory. Unfortunately JJ drunk the tabwater and had diarrhea, but now he is fine again. Now we use only sanizied or boiled water even for washing hands and making dishes. We don't do bathing and laundry. Otherwise we are good, but generally in the city, the mood is very depressed, many people have flooded basement, helping with sandbaging and all the farmers and oil field workers can not earn money. The expensive oil field trucks are used for pumping the water instead of oil. The Family Place has also caught worse thay have sewage in the basement and have closed now. The problem is that the Family Place runs completely on donations and have now a large hole is in the budget. I hope very much that enough donations will come in, that we will not lose the Family Place. We are very grateful that Nick can work despite the floods. Because they can no longer drive or go with the payloader to the company anymore, they go by boat now :D (pictures later)
It would be great if you could pray for our city. Many people here have lost a lot and there is currently no improvement in sight. For tonight and tomorrow is rain and thunder announced ... I am very grateful for the solidarity of people here and just know that God  is in control, even in this situation.

Rita

busy week, flooding again

We had a very busy week. Last saturday weddingshower for a couple from church. I made the decoration and a cake for it (too bad I forgot my camera!!!) Sunday Goodbye Celebration for Pastor Stephan, I made a cake too. He is moving to Ontario, where is is going to me an army-pastor (capitain). We will miss him very much!!!
I have more pain in my neck lately, so I went to the chiropractor and after it I was exausted and had pain. JJ had his Minigo-graduation this week, more about it later...
On wednesday first time we got to see our blueprints we gave in work. We had some more changes to do and think about it a couple nights, but now all changes are done and we should get our final plans tommorrow :) We hoped to get it earlier and wanted to make the contract with the builder today, but it didn't work out. So we try to go to our invitations for today, 2 birthday parties and a BBQ. The basement from the first birthdaykid was flooded by the crazy rain we had yesterday, so they change it to an other place, the second birthday party was in Yellow Grass, but we couldn't get there because the closed roads... but we enjoyed the BBQ very much, while all things were crazy in the city. The floodings we had last time was lots, but this time is worse. We have a State of Emergency and a boil water advisory right now. Here are some pics, it is really crazy out here...

fontanes are coming out of the manwhole

highway

We are really happy, that we had just a leaking window and hope it would stay dry the next days, better weeks...

Have a nice sunday,

Rita

my 3 little smilys

Welcome and thanks for following my blog :)

Today I'm so greateful for my 3 little smilys and their beautiful blue eyes!!! :)))
Here they are:
My Kindergartener

 my toddler

 and my baby

Thanks for stopping by,
Rita

Noah Jamie 10 months

On the 1st my baby became already 10 months old!!! Here are a few pictures by typical American style: with the monthly number on a sheet ;)
And before you ask: I had already taken the glasses off, because I wanted to make him ready for bed when I remembered that I wanted to make the photos ;)

 " It wasn't me"

 Playing Peek-a-boo, that he looks to the camera :)

 My smily :)

 Rita

Willow Tree and 10 years a couple

Last week was really busy... On Thursday it was 10 years ago since we start dating.
Wow, 10 years sounds so long and we've expirinced so much, but the time also went by fast.
I love Willow Tree sculptures, they show so much emotions... and I thought this day was a perfekt reason to get some of them... and they fit sooo good!!! Lukas loves to play with Nick and show his legos ect... JJ often comes to cuddle and Noah Jamie looks back to me exactly like this!!!

Only Nick's hairstyle is wrong :D

Rita

My Birthday cakes

I now not very much people make their own birthdaycakes, but I do and I love it!!!
I was wondering how to celebrate my birthday this year, and Albine had a great idea: a girls-/ladiesnight cakeparty :) And it was awesome!!! We talked and laught so much and ate lots of cake of course. Here the cakes at the beginning of the party...

strawberry cupola with spongecake roll, strawberry-, vanilla-, chocoicing and shortcrust

Chococake with choco-and vanilla whipp

Brownies with sweetend condensed milk and pecan

Chococake with sweetend condensmilk, caramel and vanillawhipp

Raspberrycake with creamcheese icing

It wasn't really much cake left, after all ladies took some cake for their spouses. We have to repeat a cakrparty ladiesnight, it was sooo cool!!! After we bought our lot and Nicks parents were here on my last birthday I didn't expect anything for this year, but it turned out great!!!

Thanks for stopping by,
Rita

Visit on a farm

We had lots of fun on Schira's farm...
After Noah Jamie had his first Steak he was big and strong enough for his first ride on a pony ;)

 Noah Jamie liked to pet the baby goats. This one was only two days old.

 JJ love cats, this one was his favorite... the cat with blue eyes... He tried to cache and carry her the whole day.

 Chicks.

 The Schira girls

 Lukas is very shy with animals...

 ... but JJ the opposite. He tried to feed the goats... he found little balls on the ground and thought is is their food :D :D :D

 He isn't afraid of the goats , he is only afraid of dogs.

 Noah Jamie was very interested in the grass.

 JJ took a ride on the pony too,...

 ... but only with his favorite cat :D :D :D

We had sooo much fun!!! Thanks to the Schira family!!!