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Meeting friends in Vernon

Posted in Adoption, Fun Stuff on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

 
It’s a great thing this internet business.  You get to meet the nicest people.  On Monday I moseyed over to Vernon to my friend K’s house.  Gina was also in town visiting her family and she had her cutey daughter Samara with her.  It was fun just watching the kids play… even though K’s daughter [...]

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Snow ‘n’ Wine

Posted in Family & Friends, Fun Stuff on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Jrock and his friend K went to elementary school together… He was the best man at our wedding and he’s always up for a good time!
This weekend J and K went skiing/boarding up at Big White and then we introduced him to the wonderful world of wine tasting.
    
K and J both got discounted lift [...]

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A day with mom

Posted in Family & Friends, Fun Stuff on March 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »

My mom and I spent a nice day away – slowing winding down the valley through Peachland, Summerland and Penticton.

We had lunch at a lovely bakery – Bliss Bakery in Peachland.  Check out that pink cupcake!

We visited Summerland Sweets to buy some jams and syrups… and found out there was a trestle bridge for a [...]

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Hey Gramma – look who we visited!

Posted in Family & Friends on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My mom (and briefly dad) was in town so we took a cruise up to Vernon to visit my Aunties – they are actually my Grandpa’s sisters.  They are hilarious and lots of fun.  You’d never imagine they are 89/93. Thank goodness I have that Polish/Ukrainian blood in my veins – I’m going to live for  [...]

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Spring Break

Posted in Family & Friends on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My sis has been living without her husband since January when he moved 1/2 their household to the Rockies.  She’s moving at the end of the school year to join him, but for the meanwhile it was a happy reunion in Kelowna today.  It’ll be nice to have them about 5 hours away – it’ll be [...]

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10 random things

Posted in Fun Stuff on March 15, 2008 | 11 Comments »

THANKS to Haze and Rhonda for taggin’ me.
I suppose this wold be considered peer pressure – must proceed with game or else! Juz jokin.  Let’s see if I can come up with something.
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ok.  I went and asked J to help me.  He is fountain of weird facts about me:

My hair has been the following colours: [...]

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Hamish does the taxes

Posted in Animal Family on March 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »

He’s exHAUSTED! but he did a really good job this year. 
Looks like we’re getting a refund – good dog!

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The hike that never ended

Posted in Fun Stuff on March 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »

On Monday, Jrock agreed to take a little hike with me.  I’m leading a group on Friday, and I wanted to scout out the route before I lead 15 people along it.
We guestimated it would take 1 1/2 hours… little did we know.  Click below to see some pics and the short version of the story!
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On the tube…

Posted in Africa, Ethiopia on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Jrock and I love watching programs about Ethiopia.  This show is today – Sunday March 9 at 3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern on OLN if you want to check it out.

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This is NOT a referral

Posted in Action, Ethiopia on March 5, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Oct 2007                                                                Feb 2008
Just in case anyone starts to get excited!  These are not OUR kids – These pictures are of the little girl in Addis Ababa that we are sponsoring through Canadian Humanitarian. 
“H” is just four years old – what a sweetie pie! and we just got pictures of her this week. It’s definitely not as [...]

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Six Months

Posted in Adoption on March 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Here we go… we’re at six months now of waiting.  Honestly, the last couple of weeks have probably been easier waiting than the rest of the time, because at least we have some reasonable end to the wait in sight. “Top of the list.”  We’re counting on that.
Both of us think that we will get [...]

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Let’s write letters!!!!!!

Posted in Action, Adoption, Ethiopia on March 3, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Friends;
I know several families that have been waiting for MONTHS for someone in the Nairobi High Commission ofice to stamp their children’s paperwork so they can go pick them up.  These kids are just waiting and waiting and waiting… for a family, for stability and love. It’s time to write some letters and demand a [...]

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Special Moments #3

Posted in Adoption, Ethiopia on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I think it’s time, for us waiting and for our friends waiting, to post some more “special moments.” These keep me going -
New (on my blog)

Yosef and Biniam
Abi’s Journey
Meeting Silas
Forever Day
Our Ethiopian Adoption – Delightful Mihret
Bringing home Girum

Others Previously Posted (but worth another look!)

Happy Referral Day
Picking Up Abi
Happy Adoption Day
Our Adoption Journey
One Year Later
Meeting [...]

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