Visiting with Dee

Last week, I was able to head over to McAdam for an overnight visit with the Kohler family! We had such a nice time. Dee gave me the BIG tour of her little town :0) and even baby Kohler gave me a "roll around hello". It was a great time. Thanks for your hospitality Scott and Dee and Baby!

Sharing scrapbooking ideas with Dee and her friend (and now my friend too :0) Miranda.

Dee practicing her sermon for Sunday... :0)

What's New

Hi Everybody! Here's what we have been up to the last few weeks. Hope you all have been well!

Steph's 29th Birthday

There was a huge snowstorm here on Jan. 19, so after Matt made the grueling ride home from work, we celebrated with fondue and birthday cake. It was a wonderful evening!

Thank you for the beautiful flowers Matt!

Pond Hockey Tournament

Miramichi is famous for it's yearly pond hockey tournament. We braved the freezing cold and went to cheer on our friend, Brett, and his team. They ended up winning the tournament in their division.

Our friend Brett and his team

Steph and Brett's wife, Ann

Superbowl Sunday

Before heading over to a friend's house for a small group Superbowl party, some people from the church had an afternoon football game in the snow.

Oops -we need new snowpants for Matt!

Aww... Matt

I went out one evening last week with some friends and when I came back home there was a surprise dessert for me in the fridge.

Fredericton and St. John

The last two weekends, Matt and I have been cheering on our two favorite basketball players, Lyndsay and Peter, as they played in their provincial tournaments. We love being their groupies!

Sorry this is so bright and red...

Matt is the more serious basketball fan

The House Blog pt.1

Well here it is -some pictures of the house! This is the first floor. It was the clean one that day! :0)

Our kitchen





The guest room



Our family room -yep that's a TV! Our rabbit ears can get 2 channels!



The front room that we painted over Christmas -mmmm chocolate!

Renovating over Christmas

Here are some pictures from renovating the front room over Christmas. I don't have a good picture of the finished product yet- it's coming!

Before...
We love this room because it's so sunny and it's so big! But it was definitely in need of a face lift. It was just a cream color with this one coffee-ish color wall.


Matt, the handyman, had to replace a part of our ceiling that had leaked a while ago. He did a great job!


The hardest part of that job was the sanding. Poor Matt!


The painting begins....

Be watching for the completed pictures to come in the next couple of days!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Here are some pictures from our Christmas and New Years!

Christmas Eve in Millerton



Over the New Year's weekend we had a few visitors. My mom and dad came to spend the weekend with us and we also got to dog-sit "Bubbles"! She is a chinese pug that was having her very first time away from home with us. She was so well-behaved and cuddly.

When I was growing up, we had a Chinese pug with us and this was a typical scene at our house.

We got to celebrate Christmas with my mom and dad that weekend too. We surprised my dad with an old chair that we had refinished for him. It used to sit in his mom's house and was in need of a facelift!

Some favorite presents -I'm holding a roasting pan and Matt's holding an Old Testament Commentary -can you see him drooling? :)

Making breakfast New Year's Day -what a good looking chef!

Pre-Christmas

Before I post all of our pictures from Christmas and New Year's, I wanted to make sure that I got these pictures in -Christmas pictures are on their way soon!

These were 2 more pictures that my mom just gave me on the weekend of Matt and I after the dedication service at church for Operation Christmas Child.

This one is from P.E.I. Matt had to go over for a day for business and I got to tag along. Matt had never been across the Confederation bridge (Over 13 km...approx 8 miles long) -an engineer's dream!

Back to Bethlehem

This past week and weekend, Matt and I got to play "Mary and Joseph" in the Christmas concert at our church. We got to do this last year too and always have a fun time. It's a great part -no lines, we just get to sit there during the concert looking "thoughtful" :0)

(More updates below...sorry I've been so out of touch lately everybody!)

Christmas in Bathurst

After enjoying "The Living Christmas Tree" with mom and dad in Moncton the last weekend of November, Matt and I headed to his mom's house in Bathurst for an early Christmas celebration. Barb and Roger have gone to Florida and will be there through the winter, so we had to bring Christmas to their house before they left! We had a great time celebrating with Roger's two sons and their families as well.

More Operation Christmas Child Pictures

Thanks for the pictures Tara! Here is our small group HARD at work during collection week!

Ann and Jodi had alot of fun making those "odd" sized boxes fit...