Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Sharing Adam's photo blog....

http://capiophoto.blogspot.com/?m=1

Check out Adam's blog. He has always had a great eye for photography and recently began sharing some images on a new blog. 

Here's a shot he took of David on PEI. I think it's awesome! I love the layers in the middle band of the photo.... And I love my Derf™ and miss him terribly. 

Sunday, July 06, 2014

Happy Fourth of July

The big kid came home for the long weekend. It was great to have him around.  

Northwest Park petting zoo


Ice cream treats at the barn in Salem. 

A quick visit with Breton at Chipotle. 


Friday, June 20, 2014

Adam's graduation

Last night we celebrated Adam's graduation from high school. It's surreal to be celebrating this milestone in his life and in ours as well.

We are so proud of our Adam, so very thankful for the choices he has made and  we both admire so many of Adam's qualities. He has truly made parenting easy and made it radically fun. We are so thankful that God has blessed us in this way with Adam, we are just so thankful. 






With his little brother Dave:


Gold balloons symbolize a lost classmate. The young man was known for his gold accents on his sneakers, etc.

A butterfly release symbolized another lost classmate. Class of 2014 suffered this year. The principal broke protocol and made a short speech. He acknowledged the unusual hardships the class had experienced this year and noted how the faculty had struggled with knowing how to comfort the students. He said it ended up being the students that comforted the teachers. If he were to get in a time machine and choose a year to be in school again he would choose the class of 2014. That was a great tribute to the group of grieving teens that made up that class. 

These past 12 months have been a eye-opening, heart revealing period that  was packed with changes, adjustments, giant decisions, lowest lows and happiest highs. We have loved and basked in God's goodness and in His presence in our lives. This graduation feels like a seal at the end of a challenging year and I look at it and see grace written all over it. Awesome kid, awesome God and awe-filled thanks to Him. 

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Landon and Kona

http://youtu.be/ClZrdkyoArQ click on the link to see a video of Landon and Kona, our German Shepherd.

Landon has been sick for several days with a stomach bug. Yesterday he sprang to life and we headed outside to play with Kona.

The exchange at the first of the video is about a whale toy that was in the bushes. We recognized it as the toy that Adam threw into the roof from the pool....in 2009. The whale was black and moldy. The roofers must have thrown it off the roof.

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Celebrity Day

Little boy has himself all styled, gleeked and ready to be PSY today at school. It's Spirit Week so he has to pay $1 to participate. His rolled up dollar bill was ready last night and tucked in his picket this morning.

Yesterday was Crazy Hair Day. I regret that I don't have a picture. Maura had about 6 hair bows in and Landon had a tall Mohawk.









Monday, April 01, 2013

Nemo

I know it's Spring....so snow pics should increase your appreciation of the warm air and longer days. This snowstorm was a big one, everyone had to help out to make us mobile again.

Gordie representing Cape Breton with that warm scarf from Mom! Everyone lives that scarf!









Breton

A sweet little boy came into our lives in November. On Saturday he came to visit. We are crazy about him! See how he's changed since November.















Friday, November 09, 2012

Bringing you Post #14 for 2012

Maura loves to read the old posts and she laughs at all the funny things they said, it makes me seriously wish that I was still documenting all of that. I wish I was because they are still that funny, cute and photogenic.

Times change, we accept it and move on. (that sounds so easy)


Landon was a very cute Harry Potter for the "Trunk or Treat". If you don't know what that is, it's an event where parents decorate the trunk of their minivan, SUV, car or pickup and they assemble in a parking lot and the kids go from car to get their treats. We just treated, we did not "trunk". It was a fundraiser for the PTO and there was a raffle table. I LERVE raffle tables! We won a camping basket from Cabela's- excessive excitement levels- we thought we were the luckiest people on Earth. But that was on Thursday night at the school play. This was Friday night at Trunk or Treat. I spied a large Vera Bradley bag and put all 10 of my raffle tickets in that bucket. The next day around lunch time I got a call from the raffle coordinator saying that I had won. WOO-HOO- it was noon and I hadn't heard so I thought I did not win! I was on a winning streak! I won $1000 on the radio once- have I ever told you about that? It was 1992 and I worked with a country music nut......I'll save it for another time.


Landon asked me to draw a dragon tattoo for him. I said I couldn't draw a dragon, didn't know how. He says "google it". This is what we ended up with. Look at Landon's cute little hairy back.

We had company here this weekend for our Annual Bible Conference, I love having company for conference.  On Monday morning I glimpsed the sunlight glinting off the foyer chandy and noticed the lovely natural silken weave on the light. I was pleased to see that all God's creatures feel comfortable in my home and not AT ALL mortified at the housekeeping failure showcased in the foyer of my home.



On Wednesday we had a snow day. Our neighbor wasted no time getting her Arctic Cat out and tearing up and down the runway. The smell of snowmobile - favorite smell! If you can see Kona in the picture- that's as close as she would venture towards the "machine".

Here is my little helper man- he shovelled the walkway in front of the house- quite a long piece and then got in front our part of the house and the snow got too heavy for him. I thought he was so sweet to go out and shovel without anyone suggesting he do it.


This morning we were up with the birds to go and have blood drawn. Landon was brave, positive and cooperative as possible. Look at his rosy little ear in the picture here.

The butterfly needle was a little pinchy. The boy was still brave but somehow his body was not so sure about giving away all this blood, so early in the morning on a empty tummy. So his face, hands, ears and lips turned pale and the tech laid him down in a bed until he came back to feeling like himself again.

I do not know how I used to do this posting thing with decent photos and such. This little post has taken a full 2 hours to complete to this point.