New friends!!!

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Words can't describe the feeling in our hearts right now... other than we have just met some new 'friends' in ML. Possibly one of THE coolest fams in ML(other than L's :) ). This is Chinedu, China and Zizi. Another lil sis is on the way in 2 months!!!! We just had them over for a quick coffee before Chinedu had to go back to work.... and we CAN'T wait till the next time we meet!!!!

Our neighbors in ML

I have yet to post pictures of the big move to ML on January 8th, so sorry these are coming before them.

These pics are from last evening. We had B and J Letkemann over for supper and the evening. When we knew we were moving here to ML, we hadn't actually seen the house that we moved into, nor did we really know where it was. We had the land lord send us some pictures of the house. I think maybe 4 altogether to give us somewhat of an idea what we were going into. Its a brand new place, and it so happens to be just kitty corner right behind B and J! So in the summer, when we are outside, we will be able to chat over the fence. This makes it really handy, as we can just walk to mtg. when its here in ML.

We will enjoy getting to know the Letkemann's better over the next few years! They have two girls, Brenna and Ayverie. These are pics of them playing with Mr. potato head glasses and a set of 'cool' glasses for the baby. :)

Our first visitors after the big move!!!

Since moving to ML a week ago, we have had our first batch of visitors this past weekend. Dean's sister Janine and husband Kurt and their two girls, Keonna and Kierra came to visit!!! We had such a blast, and hoping they had as much fun or more than we did :) Just down at the end of our block, we have a beautiful park, including a nice tobogganing hill. It was gorgeous outside on Saturday, so perfect opportunity to be outside with the lil ones. After a nap later on, we took them swimming to the local indoor pool. Our weekend also consisted of a few rounds of Monopoly Deal and Artifacts. I think we got K and J hooked on both! ;) We also did a bit of shopping. Can you believe it? even in ML.... we do have some pretty sweet stores, eh Janine? Here are a few pics of the weekend. Once I get a few more pics hung up and completely organized in the house here, we will post pics of our new diggs. I am aware that I have two or three other posts to make as well. ie: 1) cruise 2) xmas and new years with fam 3) move, etc. Keep in touch!!! Thanks all for your comments. Even if it is just hi ;)

Helping Auntie do laundry :)

Good ol' Artifacts..... they're hooked. :)



Keonna working up the courage to go down the slide
Meet mr. potato head
watching uncle's shadow...

Kisses for Uncle DeanSisters!!!!

Pretending to nap beside auntie's toy box
A toy that will never get old :)

A week back in the south already!!!

Its hard to believe, but we have been gone from the north now for a whole week already. We moved back to Toon Town on Friday evening last week. Dean finished up all of his final practicum requirements and then had to be back in the city for a final presentation to his colleagues and profs for Monday, November 30th in the am......

AND NOW HE IS DONE!!! He is officially a grad nurse. He will start working in M. L. on January 5th as far as we know. We have yet to find a place to live there and he starts a month from today!!! YIKES is all I can say!!

The only remaining item on Dean's schooling is to write his CRNE in February 2010. This is the final certification exam and it is about 6 hours long. From now till then, he will work as a grad nurse.

Here are some photos from over the years. A tribute to the man I love....who has worked so incredibly hard and achieved his goal!!! Hard to believe these years have already come and gone. At times it felt like we would never see the end of it, then eventually we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and its already come and gone now!!! WOW.

A few of deans school colleagues. I believe there were about 10 males in his class of approx. 160.

One of his rotations was at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon. A neat experience!!! An insight to see whether a person would want to specialize as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse or not.
Some nursing peeps doing a group project at our place!!

Some more of our nursing buddies!!! Jenn and Lacey.

A request from us to you!!

I know some of you might be new to the 'blog' world.... but now that you know how to access it, lets take it another step.

We would love to know who is all looking at our blog and following our journey... so up until now, you have heard from us.... now lets hear from YOU!

All you do is select the 'comment' tab at the end of each post. Once you click on it, it will open another window. You don't need a google account, you can select the Anonymous option... but please make sure you type your name at the bottom of your msg so we know who wrote it!

We have more posts coming later on this week. Will try to tackle that task tomorrow :)

Hope all is well with you all in the mean time!!!!

D and S

Last weekend in the north!

We had a great weekend this weekend up in the north...and spent a lot of it with our dear friends, the Coe's!

Some of the activities included:

-attending the craft fair
-attending the Ski Club Fundraiser supper as well as the ski swap. Learned a lot about xcountry skiing and how to wax your skis, what type of skis to buy, etc.
-listening to a guitar player from Montreal, a very talented man by the name of Rob Lutes. He plays a classical guitar I believe it is and the type of music he plays is a lot of blues/jazz.
-We also caught the second fish of the season up here!!! In a matter of a week, Dean caught two fish and hadn't caught anything up until now in three months!!! So he is very pleased to say the least. Both of the fish were caught 'ice fishing'
-study this am with the coe's

Here are some pictures of the ice fishing adventure. It gets dark around 4:30 or 5 pm here. We fished until 6 pm. So some of the pictures are 'night shots'.

Father and Son


Our favorite kiddos from the north!!!!
Got em

Admiring the fish.... he is in the centre if you look hard enough.
Matt got a fire going... it was only a 10 footer ;)

Capturing the moon....