Sunday Nite relaxing

The ABC's according to Emily. We got some flash cards (thanks A.Tien) and so we tried the out on Emmy last night. It is so funny to do with a kid who really doesnt get the concept that the picture should should start with the letter on the other side of the card though she did pretty good
A is for Spider (ant)
B is for Seagull (bird)
C is for cow
D is for house (door)
E is for elephant
F is for fox
G is for quack (goose)
H is for chicken (hen)
I is for coloring (ink)
J is for jam (jar)
K is for cat (kitten)
L is for lion
M is for mouse
O is for orange
P is for pig
Q is for pizza (quiche)
R is for rainbow
S is for snowman (scarecrow)
T is for tractor
U is for umbrella
V is for car (van)
W is for window
X is for playing drums (xylophone)
Y is for yellow
Z is for lines (zigzag)

Then we whipped up some biscuits for with supper

After Supper a family game of Scrabble

Or dominos

I just want to get home!!

So on Wednesday it is a very good thing that I had a hefty dose of both of those adorable faces and the river in the morning or else this story may have ended in tears.. not unstoppable laughter!!

I was headed home from a princessy 8 hour shift because I had extended the night before upon the promise that I could start at eleven vs seven so that am I had had time for a bit of a sleep in and doggy time at the river before headed to work in the least acute area.. hooray for once in a blue moon shifts in fast track. I have been experiencing +++ issues with my little car leaving me on the side of the highway when ever it rained and being generally difficult so I was no stranger so car troubles but on this day Clarice was away at car spa and I was driving my parents van. When I had driven it the day before I checked the gas gage because the van is notoriously low on gas. I had noted that it was a little over the 3/4 mark. Fantastic. As I was driving home from work on wed on the highway suddenly the van just wasn't responding to gas.. I started to slow.. thats weird.. then it sputtered a bit.. great.. just like Clarice. Gas maybe... nope I have more gas than yesterday so not that... WAIT.. MORE gas than yesterday!!!.. oops may be it had been a bit over 3/4 EMPTY yesterday!!!.. I reduced speed to conserve gas and coasted up the Watcom overpass where of course the light was red. I turned on to the overpass and promptly died. It restarted and just crested the top when it died again.. I coasted down the hill swung around the corner and coasted up into the Shell and died just at the pumps. YES!!!.. oh.. the gas tank is on the other side. I clambered out.. yes clambered out.. did I mention the drivers side door was jambed so every time I say I went back in- picture me climbing through the passenger side and over the massive gear shifter. The gas handle didn't reach.. now what.. I went in to ask if they had a Jerry can( resisted the urge to call it a petrol suitcase, haha) that I could use, nope just ones to sell. Well I was too cheap to buy a jerry can when I had made it to the gas station . I went out and tried to start it again. no go, tried phoning the dad.. no answer. I climbed back out. "do you have pop can or something I can fill as a Jerry can".. I got a large Slurpee cup, fill that up and tried to pour it in. Climbed back in.. no start. Climbed back out.. "I guess I'll take that Jerry can", the girls wanted to try push it.. I had no idea if you could push an automatic.. but it was worth a shot though I had my doubts about one girl pushing our massive van.. but aha.. whats that.. two guys( the perfect victims). "They can push:, I said. The gas attendant was a bit leery.. I thought "why not" I put my brightest nursey voice on .. hey If I can convince psychotic patients they really want their shots of Vit H I'm sure I can convince theses guys they want to push my beast. Sure enough. though I was sure to explain that this really WASN'T my van. Back and forth and back and forth we went ( there is no power steer) and around we went to the correct side!! Success.. filler up..a few starts later and I was on the way. That is until I got home and went to collect my stuff from the van.. where exactly was my wallet?? oh yeah.. on top of the gas pump!!

Sunday Photo

I have been abit lonesome for the sea

Kacey

Yesterday Kacey joined our family!! An eight week old ball of fur and curiosity. She is going to be the new baby in the family and a amazing addition to Sumas Shepherds


Having a bath to get that kennel smell off

Shake Shake- Im not sure who had the bath.. her or me!!

All dried off

She has the most monsterous huge paws!!!

How Great is our God

What you might ask is that overripe orange looking thing?? While that is Betelguese (pronounce Beetle juice). It is the forms one of the shoulders of one of my favorite constellations- Orion. So is one of those little stars you see up in the winter sky, right?- Wrong. This little star is anything BUT small. Earth:Betelguese = Golfball : Empire State building (x6). All of this and more about the greatness and powerfulness of the mighty God we serve is explained so well and with such vivid imagery by Louie Giglio in his video message "How Great is our God" on This video (part 1 of 5) here. Just the shear magnitude of the universe combined with the detail in which he knit out bodies together focused on Christ is amazing.

Last but not least

Alright... the unblogged of 2010. I know you say how many more pictures can she have.. but here are just a few showing some of the things I had been meaning to blog about but never got around to and then thought perhaps it was to late.. but Here before we fully leave behind 2010 are the few untold things.

In march we flew out to Alberta and rented the mobmobile to go and see my grandparents. So did 95% of the Wubs clan for a wonderful weekend of family and fun celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

Amy lives there to so it was fantastic to hang out with her.

The real reason for coming- They fell in love and it ended up with .....

Alot of people!!!

Corina was my faithful model for different assignment shoots

In August Corina and I took my brothers to Whistler to do the tree-go course, camp and check out Shannon Falls.

And July was Oma's 81st and Aunt Elma's 50th Birthday Celebrations

more bloggy pictures from 2010

Here are a few more unpublished pictures. I had the wonderful opportunity to second shoot with the talented Arenda Dehaan

for a few weddings this summer. All the fun of weddings with none of the pressure!! - you run around and get all the candid detail shots and leave the rest up to the pros

Connie and Allan

Jolene and Calvin