Our Adventures

Well, Chris was pretty disappointed in the lack of comments on his post but Jen and April you get major points. He's refusing to write another post now but I think he just needs to accept that sometimes there won't be as many comments and that doesn't make one post any worse than another. I'll get him to learn this one day. You'll see him again. But for now it's me. We had a pretty nice chillaxing weekend. We both had some school stuff to do so our mornings were filled with homework. On Saturday we went on a date with Chris' birthday money from his grandma. First we got to see a cross dresser! Yeah, what a perfect moment for a date. He was even carrying La Senza bags, I don't want to know if they were for him. So after the cross dresser we went for chinese food cause I was craving it and it was swell. It was pretty funny, the bus boy asked us if we wanted more water about 10 times and even when we were getting up and leaving and putting on our jackets he asked if we wanted more water. Does that make sense to anyone? Do you want more water? As we're about to leave. He was really keen on giving water. This is us on our date-o-rama.





When we got home from Chinese we bundled up and went for a walk by the river. We went up to the train bridge, which is a bridge that I walk across to get to school and it has a walking part right beside where the train goes across which is pretty freaky when a train is actually going across. It was a really nice night out. Usually when I walk across during the day it's really windy and that's the killer part about cold weather. It's a pretty nice view up there though.



And the view is especially good with us up there...



After my butt was too cold to be outside we came back and finished the night off with a good ol' game of settlers which I have to admit, I won without hesitation. Hence the loser sign (for him, not me).



So that was our big date night, the highlight of the weekend. Not much else happened. Watched football, did more homework, went to a wetland that I'm doing a research project about having to survey people and such, went to church, bought steak knives and desssert bowls. yup that's about all. 'Twas good. Until next time.

Well, Vicky is making me post my first blog on our blog site because she said she might have to change it's name if I never did any. So here I am. So I guess I'll tell ya'll about our weekend. On Friday I came home from Plenty to a house that smelled real good. Vicks had made beef dip, which is like one of my favorite meals, and I was starving so that was awesome. Then I realized that she had set the table for four so apparently someone was coming over for supper but I had no clue who. I thought it might be Andrew and Janette because she was in town for the weekend but she said no. Then I said it must be Kevin and Alysha and she wouldn't say so then I got thinking it might be someone else but I didn't know who. Anyways, in the end it was Kevin and Alysha which was swell. We had a superb supper, my wife makes a mean beef dip.Then I was surprised because they gave me birthday presents because my birthday is next tuesday. That was pretty cool. I hadn't realized that it was my birthday party. Yup, so I got this i trip thing for my ipod and a new Boston Red Sox hat from Vicks. Kev and Alysha got me a gift certificate to get a cd too so that was swell. After presents we had a rousing game of Settlers of Catan, Seafarers edition. I lost, which is extremely rare I have to say. After that we watched the end of the Riders game which they won! I was impressed with how they actually completed some clutch plays to get the game winning field goal. So that made it all around an awesome evening.



Here we are all eating supper! I think that was the largest meal we have had on our new table so far. It held up pretty good I'd say.



Awwwww. Look at them.



Thats me with my new hat and ipod toy.

So anyways, I think I'm dragging this on. Remember, I'm new at this. On Saturday we went to the town of Davidson because my Girls Volleyball team which I help coach in Plenty had a tournament there. I was so impressed with how our girls played. We were in the semi-finals against the first place team and were just two points away from beating them in the third game. Anyways I was proud of them. I love coaching stuff. It was great that Vicks could come watch too and see a bit of what I do in Plenty. I'm taking Kev's camera out there this week so maybe I'll put a blog up of what life is like out there for ya'll. If you care. After we got back to the city on Saturday we went out to Moxy's with Andrew and Janette, Kev and Alysha, and like a tonne more of A and J's friends. It was sort of an engagement party I guess. It was pretty fun but we didn't get any pictures to show ya'll. Maybe next time we have an engagement party for someone.

Well I guess all that is left is Sunday. It was pretty splendid. It was sort of a miserable day so we didn't get to go on the walk that I wanted to. Instead we went shopping because we had a few things we needed for our house, like a rolling pin, and I was checking out the Gap because Vicky's parents and her dog got me a Gap gift card. I got a shirt, I'll check again some other day for other stuff. When we got home we had a message on our phone to go to my uncle steve's for pizza with the gang, which is what he calls the whole Braun family. So that was fun and they all sang a rousing Braun version of Happy Birthday for me. Between the ping pong with A and J and the bug your neighbor with everyone the afternoon flew by. We stopped by at kev's for a bit to pick up his camera and then went to church. Church was really awesome tonight. The worship and the message just all meshed so well. It was about how we are free from the law and how it is so easy to slip back into looking at our lives based on right and wrong and not just on the fact that Jesus already did it all for us! Anyhoo I loved it. And that brings us to now basically. I need to get to bed because tomorrow is another week and I'm up at 5 to leave for Plenty. Nice talking to all of you.

Well, it's been a while and Chris keeps reminding me that I haven't updated "my" blog, which makes me consider renaming the blog. Anyways, not much has been going on around here these days. A typical day in my world consists of going to school, coming home, doing homework, doing some part-time work for my prof and watching t.v. Although this last week has been somewhat busier as I realize that I have essays and mid terms coming up...yippee.

This past weekend we headed out to the farm for Thanksgiving. It was a good time of relaxation and too much food. The boys had a fun time chasing cows and rechasing cows after they broke out and ran 3 miles back to their moms. That was the big moment of the weekend I guess. It was really nice the last day we were there so we went outside for a bit and I took some action shots of the boys playing football. Here's a little sample...



Kevin was much more photogenic than Chris on the action shots. I only got one good one of Chris because all the rest of them he just caught the ball normally and that's no fun to take a picture of.



Although the boys thought taking action shots was fun, I'd rather play with Jake, one of favorite dogs. I've never had a big dog like Jake before but I really like him, he's so friendly and always wants to play, plus he's really cute. He's quite the character too. He likes to chase balls and sticks but once he gets them he'll never give them up unless you trick him by getting another ball or stick and then he'll drop the one he has to get the new one. Here's some proof of just how cute Jakey is. He deserves two pictures...





A huge thing happened on the weekend that had nothing to do with us but it's exciting. My cousin in law, or chris' cousin got engaged! Andrew is the cousin and Jeanette in the fiancee and they've been dating long distance for who knows how long, ever since they went to Bible School together like 5 years ago. So about 5 years. Jeanette could only say one thing at our wedding..."I can't believe you beat us". Now it's finally her turn, I'm sure she has lots already planned out in her mind for the big day. It was funny how she would just flat out say that she was getting impatient waiting for Andrew to actually propose. This last couple months everyone's been suspicious about when he would do it. He told me that he would make it happen before we up and leave the country next year so I guess he sticks to his word. Here's a pic from their big moment when he visited her in calgary for the weekend. Congrats guys! I can't wait to have another newly married couple in the fam.



well, I guess that's all for now. Hope you've enjoyed my update.