Saturday, January 03, 2009

Closing out 2008


We had a great year in 2008 and I have to say that we closed it out and entered into this new year with nothing but high hopes!
Here is our family picture going into 2009 ~ all of us are a year older :) and some of us are getting thinner while some of us (me) are getting chunky. Ha so I enjoyed the end of the year festivities... ;)

I thought I would share some more pictures of our snowmobiling experience.
Here we are noticing that not only did Nick and Kayla go into the ditch but so did Josh and Justin! :) During this picture we were all laughing and talking about how is it that the kids all wind up in the ditch... :)

This is the view before we left for our adventure on snowmobiles. It was snowing so hard. I miss it already.. the snow that is!
We got alot of snow while we slept and before we could leave Kay felt the need to shovel some snow. :) She was having fun and the men folk were catching this on film. i.e. Nick in the back ground getting ready to snap a shot of his girl doing some manual labor...
Here we are trying to encourage Mr D to sit and stop taking pictures. ;) He finally did sit and we had a good dinner. We were all pooped and ready for sleep. We did go back to the room though and play some games.

We love how the Lord blesses us. It's not in ways that others may feel blessed but for our family being surrounded by Chinese people is a blessing. While we were in Leavenworth there were a gaggle of Chinese there. It took all the restraint we could muster to not just bust out in Chinese and have fun with these visitors. Finally, neither Dwayne or I could contain ourselves and we talked and laughed with some of the visitors. It was neat. Still they go into shock that there are white faced foreigners speaking their language. We usually have to ask the questions several times before they answer us. :) It was really nice to just talk in Chinese.

We are still talking about snowboarding. The boys leave tomorrow and we all wish we could go one more time snowboarding. However, I had cramps in my buttocks all day yesterday :) Yes that is funny but MAN did it hurt. It seemed if I lifted my leg or turned in just the right way - a large cramp would begin to cause me much pain... :)

I have to say Nick is a good sport. He's definitely considered family now. Justin who loves to horse around took much pleasure in getting Nick and Kay in the snow. Here he is tackling Nick in the snow and then posing for sweet picture... what you don't see is right as I snap the picture he throws snow in Nicks face... and then Kayla comes to Nicks aide. Then she too gets tackled by her brother and well they had some kind of fun.


New Places and New Adventures

After so much time away it feels refreshing to be back at blogging.  Here are just a few picture...