more from our trip...2

GreenView Aviaries

A couple of summers ago, my parents found this amazing little zoo about 45 min from thier house! GreenView Aviaries has a zoo, a minature village, a huge and amazing playground (a couple of them), a splash pad (which we didn't end up using), an icecream shop, and a burger restaurant.  It was a really great time...we should have went earlier to be able to enjoy it more, but that just means we will all have to go again (with everyone next time)!!!  Enjoy some picutres from our fun time at the "Zooz" - as Joshua calls it ;)

The mother duck was sitting on all these babies...it surprised us when she got up and we saw ALL these babies!

Matthew was so excited about this gorilla...he started making monkey sounds and swaying back and forth when he saw it :)

Joshua feeding a baboon through the pipe...it was sitting at the other end of the pipe with his hand on the pipe to catch the food.  Too funny :)

"Ganga's" helper (this is how Matthew manages to say Grandpa)!

cousins!!!!

Those poor ducks...EVERY duck that Matthew saw, he chased! If we didn't watch him, he would have been long gone chasing after all the "duck ducks!!" (Matthew)

Joshua and Auntie Holly ;)

LOVE ;D

Watching Grandpa feed the big camel! 

not quite Mr. and Mrs. yet.... 4 more sleeps!!!!!

Matthew loves elephants ;)

Baby Aaron-D (Alaina gave him this nickname)

This camel was catching crackers as Nathan was tossing it to him :) Talented!!!

Matthew didn't miss pointing out even one duck!  This duck was all over the park...you were supposed to follow it around the park :) so, he pointed out MANY ducks!

This picture is for you Mum...I can send it to you

This picture doesn't really do a good job at what I was trying to accomplish...
a very tall ostrich and a very small Mum LOL!!! ;)

We've seen all the animals, now it's time to play in the playground!!!

Matthew and Aaron-D

Ladies of the family: (L-R)

Mum, Holly (soon-to-be-bride), Me, and Alicia

A duck!! :)  I used to play on a duck just like this when I was younger!! As you can see, Matthew loved it too!! *KISS*

Remember in a previous post how I said that Matthew has NO FEAR.....
this slide was huge! and yes, he LOVED it!!!

There we are all the way at the top...

Matthew going down...Uncle Joel was standing under the slide and Grandma was at the bottom so nobody worry...he was safe!!! 

Joshua went down several times! It was a lot of fun!!!

(You can kind of tell how tall it was...Joel is climbing up the ladder with Matthew)

After a very fun day at the "zooz" we went out to Godfather pizza for dinner! The perfect way to finish off a good day...pizza!!!!!!

Thanks Dad and Mum for some great memories!! We love you!!!

Happy Birthday, Canada!!

Canada Day 2012

O Canada

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

I am so very thankful for our beautiful country, Canada!

The Lord has placed us here to proclaim His name: freely!

We have a great job ahead of us...but not to great for Him!

As we have celebrated our countries 'birthday',

let's not forget the GREAT need

to proclaim the name of Christ around this beautiful nation! 

Sorry, Canada Day was on a Sunday, so I didn't get the time to take a picture of our Canada Day outfits....

we did wear our red and white!!!  Thus, the picture I chose :) we enjoyed this YUMMY dessert on Monday since Nathan was off for the holiday!  It doesn't really have a name other than YUMMY because I made it up!  It had chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, whip cream (real), and strawberries! It was the perfect Canada Day dessert (colors and all)!!! 



Are you ready....here we go!!! 1

Hello! Yes, a lot has taken place since my last post....so, this one is going to be a quick (long) update of everything that has happened since our anniversary back on May 12th! 

I know that I promised this post for last week, but we all got sick ;( and we are just not getting over it.

 Enjoy some of what we have been able to enjoy ;)

Mother's Day - Niagara Falls

Mother's Day 2012

Joshua's Sunday School class gave each of their Mums flowers in a cup that they decorated :)

Matthew's 1st hair cut!!!

May 19,2012

He had some LONG strands behind his ears...I think they were there from birth.  :)

May 21st we boarded a plane and headed East...we landed in Detroit and my bro-in-law, Ben, picked us up.  We spent the night with Ben, Alicia, their kids, and my Mum in Windsor, ON.  Then we drove my mum back home so we could use her car (and visited for a couple of hours) during our trip, then on to Buffalo we went to visit with Grandpa and Grandma Ravert :)

One of the outing we did with Grandma Ravert was a Marina!  We saw a lot of little fish in the water...including a BIG, dead stinky one ;(

Matthew wasn't allowed out of his stroller on the walkway...he would have jumped into the water, I know it!

CHEESE :)

Matthew and the open water!....

We were constantly chasing him to keep him out of the water....he has NO fear!  If we would have let him, he would have just walked right it!

Finding some smooth stones to skip

Go Daddy!! He threw some pretty nice one's too!

There he goes....!

Matthew modeling some Cat in the Hat PJ's from Aunt Sandy :)



They don't fit anymore :(

Matthew found a tunnel in Grandpa and Grandma's livingroom :)

Niagara Falls!!!!!

It has been tooo long since we've been here.  We used to live only 20 min away, so Nathan and I would drive here for fun :) Normally we would go to the Canadian side, but this was the holiday weekend in May and we were on the American side already, so that is where we stayed :)

Joshua and Matthew seeing the Falls for the first time!!

LOVE MY MAN!! ;)



Monkey ;)

Me too! Remember I mentioned no fear...

Walking with Grandpa!  Matthew is defenitely a Daddy's boy, but we are thinking a Grandpa's (x2) boy too!



Grandpa stopped at the icecream stand!!!! Joshua picked at snow cone!

Matthew picked Grandpa's ice cream :)

YUMMY!!

The whole time we were waling around Niagara Falls, Nathan  was talking on his phone off and on.  Everytime I would ask him what was up, he would just wave at me to be quiet...finally he told me that the Malazo's were going to meet us there to surprise Dad and Mum!  Well, they successfully did! Other than when they were running across the field Dad saw Jun and thought, he that looks a lot like my Son-in-law. Thankfully that is all he thought, that he looked like him and did't think anything of it :) 

Hello

Hello all! Yes we are still here... We are all well, just rather busy ;) I am hoping to post about the many things that have happened recently! I have a long list: so look back soon!!!!!

Our 5th Anniversary May 12/2012

May 12,2012

Our 5th wedding anniversary!

These 5 years with my handsome hubby has been so wonderful! We have seen our love grow and the Lord has greatly blessed us on many occasions! The Lord has given us 2 precious adorable boys ;D and He has led us through many different trials: all which He has brought us closer together as a couple and with our Lord!

Thank you, Nathan for all that you have done unsleflessly for these past 5 years! I am truly blessed to have you has my one and only! Love you Babe!

We were given a gift card to the following restaurants and we have never been to Milestones so we thought we would try it out!...........

Nathan and I had an evening planned out to go downtown Vancouver for dinner and then grab a coffee and walk along the waterfront....well, as we were driving to Christopher and Melissa's to drop the boys off, we quickly decided that the traffic was to bad (if was horrible) to drive all the way to downtown: our time would have been up before we even got to the restaurant....so we dropped the boys off and then headed to Milestones in Langely.  When we got to the restaurant we were seated at a table right beside the main aisle of the restaurant, we were right beside a dividing wall and at a two person table (yes, there was only two of us there, but we like to sit BESIDE each other not across from each other and 6 feet apart at that. Who came up with the idea of couples sitting across from each other anyways...I don't understand them?!?!?!??), the music was horendous and so loud that we couldn't hear each other without yelling.  We started to look at the menu and were not interested in anything (it was lousy) so we both looked at each other and decided that we were ready to leave: so we did, on our way out we told the hostess that we were not happy with the music being so loud and she appologized (while inside Im sure she was wondering what was wrong with us ;D)

On our way in to Milestones we noticed a Montanas across the street, thankfully :)  becuase thats where we headed! We even got to sit on the patio!!! It was perfect! The weather was warm and sunny and it was nice and peaceful out on the patio! The service was very good and our food was delicious!!!!!!!!! 

So, if anyone is thinking to try out Milestones and you want to enjoy yourselves without feeling uptight....I wouldn't go there :)









Last week Melissa had mentioned to me that the Tim Hortons up the hill from their house had a Coldstone Creamery in it!!! So we headed there for our dessert and coffee! Nathan won his $100 gift card for Tim Hortons so it was perfect!! We enjoyed a coffee and icecream for dessert while we looked at a photobook I put together for our anniversary :) 

This is the only picture I took of us together becuase of where the sun was shining at each restaurant we stopped at. 

Oh, I forgot to mention that we went on this date on the night before our actual anniversary becuase our anniversary was on a Saturday, and they are crazy busy for us normally ;) Then on Saturday (our actual anniversary) we walked over to Starbucks for their half price frappicinos..YUMMY! Then sat by the water for a bit (a bit for real...Matthew loves to wander!) 

Happy 5th Anniversary, Babe, I love you!!!