New Office

The shell of the building is really taking shape... photo's taken over last few days

Goodbye to the Hayes

A couple from our church was transferred from trenton to pensicola, florida and this past sunday was their last sunday here so we had the bible study group out for a bbq to say goodbye. Not everyone could come but those of us that did had a fun time

Wishin Joh, Jen & Colt God's direction and guidence as they begin a new chapter in Peniscola.

Uncle Dougs Funeral

Was bittersweet on the weekend to head to quebec. As soon as we headed for Huntingdon, a rush of memories from my younger years came over. Was very hard to say goodbye to Uncle Doug but at the same time, great to connect again with family I don't get to see often.

Uncle Dougs House

Uncle Dougs old cottage on the St. Lawrence

Pirate Ship Reunion

Each year our friends Chad & Catherine come to visit her parents and we always get together. This year we decided to meet at the pirate ship and let the kids play. Had some other friends drop by as well. Great to see Don and Nan Britton again (hard to believe it's been 2 1/2 years) and to bump into Steve & Lisa and Dan and Nora. Our small hang out of 4 or 5 people during college & career days have turned into 10 adults and 12 kids. Craziness.

isaac's 6th birthday

Celebrated Isaac's birthday on the actual day up at the cottage and had his party on the sunday after we got back

Wonderland Video

Love the kid on the swing part way through the video... rain starts coming down part way through their ride and the looks on the kids faces is priceless.

Isaac's Birthday Party

When we got back from cottage, Isaac had his birthday party at michaels. This was our first one not at our home... definately won't be the last. We went to michaels craft store, rented the room, made bird houses and the kids just had a good time.

Kung fu panda cake

Wonderland

During the 2nd week of holidays, we looked at the schedule and week ahead and realized that if we were going to try and get to wonderland we had to do it on the monday. The week called for rain everyday so we were taking chances. We talked about it all day sunday and also the week before. Monday morning came, we said we're going to wonderland, talked about it all morning, packed, got in the van and part way up eva pipes up, "Where we going?" Umm... Wonderland Eva... Oh my word, that girl

We got heavy rains for 2 separate occasions, luckily we ran for cover and were ok. The end result was it weeded out the lines and we were able to go on most rides afterwards with little or no lineups.

Kids had a great time... even though Eva tripped or fell about 7 or 8 times...

Isaac making his D for Dino

Uncle Doug

Today we received some very sad news about the passing of my Uncle Doug. He is my mom's oldest brother and lived in Quebec. He is very close to our family and he will be greatly missed

We've never owned a cottage but growing up as kids, i fondly remembered our summer trips to Uncle Dougs Cottage outside Valleyfield PQ on the St. Lawrence river. Many of my trips to opening day in montreal for the expos constituted us stopping in Valleyfield to pick up Uncle Doug and heading into the city. His dry sense of humor and his ribbing of me will always be remembered.

2 years ago the Burns Clan got together to celebrate Uncle Dougs 80th Birthday. Here is a picture from that day.
Very hard to say goodbye... you will be missed Uncle Doug.

Went to visit our good friends the Tobia's while in Cloyne

Isaac doing his fish impersonation

We threw all the bass back... not bass season til the 27th

Isaacs first time tubing

Cottage Family PIcs

Isaacs Birthday Party @ the Cottage

Eva scores her first goal

Framing

Got to watch the back wall go up... yes, far left window is my window... i thought it was cool anyway

Back wall