Nice Jen! ... but ...

I like this version better!!!

Cheam Wetlands ~ Family Photo for Mooga:)

Hey mom!  I do have a 'real' family photo for you but this one will have to do for now:) 

Hello dearest family of mine :D.. sorry for not writing alot in the last post, i wanted to but i couldnt cus there were alot of other ppl around. I was at johns with other ppl, and the pictures were on his camera, so me and betty just put them on quickly. And thats my wonderful story. But anyways in case you guys dont know.. oh you probably do, nevermind you do know. but now we are planting new asparagus plants into a new field.. theres 20,000 of them ,at first we were going to do it by hand but then we got a machine that makes it a little bit faster. thats ok though. The weather is getting nicer now, well some days its nice, some days not, today was miserable and cold. but yesterday which was saturday we were at the beach all day, and i got a little bit burnt. umm i dont know what else there is to say. umm oh ya wow thats bad of me. But me and betty applied for our 2nd year working holiday visas. TAht was on tuesday already, and now and she already got accepted i think on friday? or maybe saturday. But i did not. again. They sent me an email saying that i had to send a declaration that i am a genuine visitor coming to Australia for a holiday only. I was not happy. So i had to send an email just saying that i am a visitor. I guess just to verify the shit. Its dumb. but oh well i just hope that they hurry up with it all, cus the same thing happened the first time, i had to answer a bunch of questions and then it was fine. but still its a little bit annoying, But Oh well... im trying to think of what else is new. Oh ya me and betty went to a Vanduyn dinner. there were not alot of ppl, but there were a couple cousins of their grandparents there from holland. It was good, Dirk and Harma, the ppl we work for at the asparagus farm were there too, so Dirk was teasing us. It was good that night though. I have been quite busy though lately. I was at Johns for supper tonight, ive been there every Sunday night, well i guess it hasnt been that long, but ya just saying. but it was good.
Anyways i should probably get to bed soon, cus its already 10:30 and i have to get up at 6:30 to work ,gotta Pick then pack then plant wonderful asparagus shit. No its not that bad, i shouldnt use such foul language. otherwise things are good. Oh ya, me and betty are housesitting for the timmers again in december for 3 weeks. Soo.. rochelle if this goes through, it will work out almost perfect! :D

Me and John...finally

Sorry for taking so long, but here are a couple..maybe not the greatest but thats ok.. :D

we get several packages of mail sent to barnwell but we are in cranford
so here's our cranford mailing address the barnwell one is incorrect :)

Box 30
cranford AB
t0k 0r0

don't worry i still got your mail but the post lady writes our address on the package and then it's sent to cranford.

NOW we are back

Hello daughters. We are now back from ON. :) It was a nice visit. Dinner was good. Aunt Sue cooked enough for an army. Lots of leftovers. During the week it is only Russell and Aunt Sue so they won't have to cook suppers for a while. Everyone was there. Well, Albert (not Dad but Michelle's hubby)came a bit late for supper but he still partook. Did a lot of driving around in ON. Lots of attractions were closed but we still saw lots. I got a soaked runner, foot, sock all because I wanted to touch the water in the Georgian Bay. And we really got soaked when we had to leave. The weather was windy and rainy. Everyone looked like drowned rats. To get on the plane is outside at the mercy of the elements. No covered walkway there. But it was fine. Started driving north and went to the Scenic Caves. It has a suspension bridge and ice caves. Dad & I only went on the bridge, (too much climbing for the caves)and almost made it to Owen Sound but had to make it to A. Trish before supper so had to head south before reaching it, had lunch with U. John & A. Dorothy on Tues. when they arrived in Hamilton. They escorted us to Fergus and we had a coffee/tea with A. Dorothy's mom and then Dad & I drove around and ended up at Waterloo/St. Jacobs. The market is only open on Thurs & Sat. so we missed out but that is okay. Drove around that area and saw the Amish with the horse & buggy. Here are a few pics.

The Hoeksema/VanVeen family soon to have 1 more member added. Michelle is due with #4. Nathasha fiance, Dan, is at the left of the picture.

Dinner hosts

You know who these people are :)

Father & Son

See Dad over there?

Just a small portion of the family gathered. Most of my pics were blurry. :(




Do you believe these last two pictures? They are made entirely of lego!

Our camping trip

So there seems to be some confusion or mixed feelings about camping at dad and moms so we or i thought maybe we'd put it on the table again to see what the majority of people think so everyone is HAPPY (hopefully).

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY to AMBER LENAE xoxoxoxoxoxo

We hope you had a great day!  We love you!