ChRoNiClEs from the NoRtH

Sunday, July 11, 2010

2) continued Yukon road trip!

Next stop??? Fishing!!!

George and Eileen and Gary and Valerie had a superb picnic lunch done up for us at G and Vs place. Then we went out for an afternoon of fishing. No bites..... but it sure was good fishing as my husband would say!!!! ;)

Heidi doing some fly fishin!!!

Dean has always wanted to fly fish.... so he had Heidi show him how!!

The beeeeautiful Peace River!!!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

To our 7 faithful readers...

Yes, we are still alive and well.... just too busy to post :( Don't get me wrong, busy is a good thing.... better busy than not! Tonight seems to be a good opportunity to post. Hubby is on nights. Me? Wide awake and don't feel like doing anything around the house. So here's an attempt to give you an update on the last ...yikes, dare I say two months???? WHOA! Where did the time go?!!!

May 21st, we started out on a journey to go and see Dean's cousin Adrienne up in her field in the north! We went along with Mom and Dad Sinc and took the 5th wheel trailer along with us. Are we ever glad we did!!!! Our final destination was Dawson City in the Yukon. After we had some time with Adrienne in northern BC, we started up the Alaska Highway and drove at our own pace. Our country is soooo beautiful. From one end to the other. It is also so very different from province to province and territory to territory! This summer we will have been to somewhat of the opposite ends of Canada. 1) Yukon.... 2) HALIFAX! We can't wait!

Here are some pics of our trip.

We started by meeting up with Mom and Dad and Kurt and Janine's. Here is Keonna with their miniature horses...and helping mom bring in the plants so they don't freeze.

And Uncle Dean trying to convince Kierra to go for a ride :)

Next stop was Edson to witness some of our friends Tie the Knot!!!! Congrats again Cherise and Jeroen!!!!

One of the stops we made with Adrienne was to see the Bennett Dam near Hudson's Hope. One of the largest earth filled dams in the world.

Heidi showing us how it all works ;)

Will post more pics again soon!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

We reunite once again...

Well we were feeling badly that a month and a half has already gone by since we have met up with China and Chinedu again... but I guess it has been a busy one at that.

So tonight, it worked!!!! A last minute supper deal with China and Chinedu and their two girls Zizi and Kamara over to our place!!!

We had a good time with them.... I don't know who had more fun :) We brought out the bubbles for ZIZI.... too bad it we didn't have swimming gear on cuz it turned out to be rather soapy out on the deck ;)

and lil baby sis.... had to get a quick one cuz she knew it was home time.... :(

Saturday, May 15, 2010

TRAVELING SUPPER IN M.L.!!!!!

We had a fun day today in ML. Three families here got together and had a traveling supper. Brian and Janelle started us off with Appetizers..... (note the sushi below.....none other than the famous Brian Letkemann's ideas) Janelle made some YUMMY spinach dip and very very tasty veggie pizza.

Then we were off to Bill and Linda's!!! Wow.....amazing cooks they ARE too!!! We had a sweet evening outside with a very delicious G.O.U.R.M.E.T. hamburger supper!!! yummm.... I would have had more than one....except they were huge!!!! and topped it off with fried mushrooms and onions..... and a side of fried potatoes!

Last....was our place....with the deserts! Oooo did I have fun doing this. (My hubby helped me out a bit too, but he was on nights, so didn't get a chance to get his hands busy with the deserts too much) It was my first time doing a fruit bouquet.... Which was SOOOOO F.U.N.! They do take a lot of time though. I had a head of cabbage in the base of the pot plus a big navel orange on top of it to give the fruit bouquet some more height in the middle. Other than that, I only used two different sized skewers.

The other desserts were Orange Chocolate Mouse Cake, Raspberry Delight and Homemade Peach Gelato in frozen orange bowls.

Hungry yet?????

:)