Weekend Happiness

Happy #1:
The puppies have arrived!  Saturday evening we had Auntie Reina and Auntie Erica over and we decided to go for a walk - seeing that Jessie had one more week to go before the pups were to arrive Ben suggested that the dogs stay home, locked in the truck cab.  When returning home I go to let the dogs out of the truck to find 2 newly born pups on the floor of the truck!!  CRAZY!  Well we put Jessie into her nicely prepared (just that afternoon by my wonderful hubby!) "birthing tub" and by ten that night we had 11 new additions to our family!!  Yes, thats right - ELEVEN :) (so far they are all doing well...) 
A few pictures of the new additions to our family!

I will try keep you updated as they grow!!

Happy #2:

The other day, we stopped by BFM and hit jackpot with a few items (Ben says you can sure tell that I am Oma Lindhout's granddaughter! - apparently I have a desire for other's junk!!)  But check it out!  Ranen loves it:)

JUST FOR THE RECORD!!!  $3.50 - yup that is three dollars and fifty cents - beat that!!

Happy #3:

And then we scored a HUGE pile of big blocks (this is just a fraction of it) for 4 bucks :)

Happy #4:

Ranen is crawling rather good now!  So she is happy becuase she can go where ever she wants and Mommy is super happy because she is SO content!

Happy #5: 

Corina and I got rid of the (our portion) Agassiz eyesore!!! First cut has been mowed down on our lots! [4 hours of 'weedeating'x2 for 2 lots!!] - we just left a few blackberries so you can harvest the fruits!!!  I promise, we will try our hardest to keep it up.  My apologies to all Agassizites! 

Happy #6:

Keep smiling everyone... Auntie Laura will be home in 10 days:)

Happy #7:

Approximately one weeks till the robots should be running!!  Sure looking forward to not having my hubby go to work at 2:30 in the morning :)  We love you so much, Ben!! thanks for working so hard for us....

Going to vacuum the pool - want to be ready when the heat arrives! 

Coming soon on this blog... Happy #8!  (the joy of moving... having many new types of flowers to capture through my lens!!)     Here is one...

Enjoy your day!

FUN in the SUN!

Summer is delivering... we have some gorgeous weather today!

Ranen says... Taycin you should have stayed a little longer today because Cayden and I got to go outside and play with water...  Look how much fun we had!

Playing bumper cars!  (I love it because I can't get hurt but Cayden says it's not very much fun because I run him over with my walker!!)



BATH TIME...



**Thanks Auntie Cathrine ... Mommy is SO very happy to finally have a couple of pictures with me - even though I am a mess! [did you know that dirt tastes really good - don't tell Daddy:)]

My Auntie Laura is in Holland on a student exchange and ... we miss you!  But I got to wear the dress you gave for the first time today :)  how do you like it??

Well... not too bad!... 3 posts in 2 days - you asked for it Laura (you wanted me to keep you updated... I will try! - but can't promise it will be this good the whole time you are gone:)

xo ... going out to enjoy the sun!

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Thanks Daddy!

Happy Father's Day Daddy - I love you ...  Me and 'Mommom' really appreciate all that you do for us!  You are the best!  I love spending time with you - especially at the farm.  And when you play with me and make me giggle then I am really happy.  Thank you for loving mommy and me so very much.  We feel very lucky to have a special man like you loving us.  Mommom says thanks too!

There are 2 very special ladies in our lives, 'Auntie' Erica and 'Auntie' Reina, that had birthdays last week...  They are also very loved!  We really enjoy the times that we get to spend with you and we look forward to having you over soon - (then maybe we can update some pictures too!)  Ranen says she might just be walking by the time you are here because she did stand up and take 3 steps to Mommy all on her own yesterday.  Mommy wasn't even calling her over! (and then when she reached mommy she started clapping because she knew that she was a big girl!) :)  Can't wait to see you both!  Hope you had a great birthday and we wish you many more blessed years ahead. xo

(Seriously - the most recent pictures that I have of you and Ranen - this is her in her first week!)

We'll work on that :)  WE LOVE YOU!

First Glance

I Heart Faces has a contest this week that I am excited to enter.... "Let's hear it for the boys!" is the theme - one of my favorite things to capture is the amazing bond between my wonderful hubby and our precious daughter.  This picture is one of my favorites!  This is the very first time Daddy is holding his daughter (moments after she was born) and also the first time Ranen studied her Daddy's face!  (even though you don't see her eyes - she was contently looking at Daddy's face...) Although hospital lighting is never great - I do believe this picture will remain one of my lifelong favourites :)

You can see the other entries to this contest here:

Enjoy!

Cuddles :)

 Our boofie has come down with quite a cold and we are treasuring the long, close cuddles we are receiving...[especially in the middle of the night]  Apparently Daddy and teddy are the best cuddlers but Mommy will do when Daddy is in the tractor!  I tried some self portraits of Ranen and me cuddling...

What beautiful weather we have today!!  I'm hoping to get out there yet...

Loving our walks!

Just realized that I can have only the picture for the contest in the last blog post or I will be disqualified so I moved this all to another blog post :)

An update on the moving... We are all into the new house but the view in here isn't very pretty yet (because we love our walks so much that we are not touching the boxes etc.) so I will not share any inside photos too soon!  A few pictures of Ranen...

These 2 pictures were taken on the day of our fundraiser soccer tournament!  We had a GREAT family day that day and almost reached our fundraising goal for the Canadian Cancer Society.  Boofie was great... 

On Friday Ranen and I went out to check on the young blue herons... here are a few pictures from our short walk :)

Waving by to Daddy:) - he was raking in the field and Ranen spotted the tractor from a long ways away...

How many birds do you see...  We saw wood ducks, Canadian Geese, blue herons, mallard ducks, red wing blackbirds, and many others...

I almost deleted this shot - but then decided that I really like it :) a red-winged black bird...

We saw this buddy catch a mouse in the mown grass and then go up here to eat it!

Going out to enjoy the sun :)

Yellow!

I Heart Faces photo challenge this week is Yellow...  Ranen absolutely LOVES her bath - like it is temper tantrum time when Mommy decides that after a half hour in the bath she should probably come out!  Ranen's favourite bath toy is her little duck so this morning I decided to take a few pictures of her with it!  She regularly tries to put it on her head so today I helped her balance it up there and she thought it was hilarious :)

You can find all the entries for the contest by clicking this box: