Since we got over a foot a snow at the beginning of the week and today most of it is already gone, there has been a ton of flooding around the farm areas here. Not only the snow that melted but the 100+mm of rain that fell in a few days didn't help the problem. We know some people who have a foot of water in their living room and some people have even been evacuated. That would not be fun. So hopefully the water will start to soak into the ground or do whatever it needs to do so people can get back in their homes. What a mess. Well, I guess I don't have much else to say. I will be entering the busiest time of my life in exactly one and a half days so we'll see how much I update this during that time. Enjoy the new year everyone!
Things are getting back into to the swing again for us. Monday I start my long practicum. I have two weeks to ease my way in to being the "full-time" teacher for 6 weeks. Kind of scary. I'm just to the point where I want to get into the class and get to know the kids and then I think it'll be fine. I've had to long to think about what I could do with them that I need to actually start doing some of those things. We had an interesting week this week. Monday and Tuesday there was no school for me because of the snow that piled up to at least a foot. Chris had school on Tuesday but I didn't. Wednesday Chris stayed home from school because he had some sort of stomach flu or food poisoning. Whatever it was, it did not make for a pretty sight the night before. So we both lazed around on that day and watched a movie in the middle of the day. Thursday we were both back at school, I was at module learning things like what to do with bratty kids who talk back to you and stuff like that. Yesterday we went over to Jon and Bonnie's for the first time in a long time. The first time since they've been pregnant and that's been 16 weeks so it had been quite a while. We had a good time eating some pizza and playing games. Hopefully we can see them more than we have been. I've met with two new couples this week to book weddings also, so it's been quite busy. So far I have 9 weddings for this year. Looks like this little business of mine is taking off. I finished editing the photos that I took in the freezing cold in December so here's a little slideshow of some of those.
Since we got over a foot a snow at the beginning of the week and today most of it is already gone, there has been a ton of flooding around the farm areas here. Not only the snow that melted but the 100+mm of rain that fell in a few days didn't help the problem. We know some people who have a foot of water in their living room and some people have even been evacuated. That would not be fun. So hopefully the water will start to soak into the ground or do whatever it needs to do so people can get back in their homes. What a mess. Well, I guess I don't have much else to say. I will be entering the busiest time of my life in exactly one and a half days so we'll see how much I update this during that time. Enjoy the new year everyone!
Since we got over a foot a snow at the beginning of the week and today most of it is already gone, there has been a ton of flooding around the farm areas here. Not only the snow that melted but the 100+mm of rain that fell in a few days didn't help the problem. We know some people who have a foot of water in their living room and some people have even been evacuated. That would not be fun. So hopefully the water will start to soak into the ground or do whatever it needs to do so people can get back in their homes. What a mess. Well, I guess I don't have much else to say. I will be entering the busiest time of my life in exactly one and a half days so we'll see how much I update this during that time. Enjoy the new year everyone!
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We made it back safe and sound from our trip out to Saskatchewan. Let's start from the beginning. Chris ended school on the 19th, then on the 20th I had a wedding shoot in probably one of the lowest temperatures we've had all winter. But I got on the front page of the local newspaper because of it so that was pretty cool. On the 21st we went to my parents and had Christmas with them and my brother. Chris got a new camera which he was very pleased with and I got a bunch of new teacher clothes. On the 22nd my brother drove us into Vancouver for our flight. It had snowed the night before and we saw about 10 cars in the ditch on the way there. The airport was nuts, we stood in a mile long line to get our bags checked and had to wait 6 hours before our plane actually left. We were lucky that our flight didn't get cancelled because probably every other flight did. Some people had already been waiting in the airport for two days. Once we got to Edmonton we were stranded. We had missed our connection to Regina and there wasn't another flight until 5:30pm the next day which we might have had a chance of getting on with stand-by but it looked doubtful. We decided to rent a car and drive to Calgary and stay the night with our friends Dustin and Rebekah. Then we drove to Medicine Hat the next day where Chris' dad picked us up and drove us home. So we made it home one day late but we got there a lot earlier than we would've if we had stayed at the airport. We had a good time at the farm, playing lots of Wii, cross-country skiing, me doing puzzles and Chris branding cows. We had the Braun gathering on the 27th and 28th which involved hours of basketball for the guys and lots of games and food for the rest of us. It was great to see everybody again. We even got to see Colin and Andrew even though they were in Hawaii. They texted Ryan and told us to look up this website that showed a webcam in Hawaii and we got to watch them on the streets of Honolulu, it was pretty funny. Our trip home was much smoother; no delays, no connections and no snow. Since we've been home we cleaned up all our Christmas stuff, bought a new 40" Samsung TV, had a new year's party at Mike and Sarah's and used one of our movie passes to see the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We both start school this monday and then it's back to the grind. It's going to be a very busy next couple months with Chris still coaching and with me doing my long practicum. I don't know if I'm quite ready for it but I guess I'll find out pretty soon.
On the front page of the Chilliwack Times
Christmas Happenings
Colin and Andrew in Hawaii
Wii Boxing
Extreme Cross-Country
Chris' new baby
New Year's Party
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