Medieval Wedding

The lovely couple cutting, er...slashing the cake made by Paula K.
The king and queen of the groom (knight)

The Minstral (Gabe) playing for the couple

Mr. and Mrs. Greek after they were announced

thelang6 dressed for the occasion

This was a fun wedding! It was the first wedding we have gone to in a while, and it was the first wedding that was our friends kid. I guess we are hitting that age where most of our friends are already married, and now the children of said friends are getting married. It was also weird going to a wedding and only having to bring a gift, show up in costume, eat and leave!

The wedding was held at Campbell Valley Park, and it was a gorgeous day for sure! We saw a lot of people we haven't seen in a long time, I love that about weddings!

My dessert last night....

Jenn made us this applecrumbley, caramel icecream goodness last night

from scratch (of course!)...

thats all I have to say about that!

Our Alaska Hwy Epic

This picture was actually taken half way through our journey. We flew from Vancouver to Whitehorse a few days before this to help my brother Aaron move his lovely little family down to the coast (thats what they call where we live!). Funny thing in Dawson Creek, we met our good friend Ray Spence here, quite by chance. I mean how does one bump into a friend 800 miles from home?

The nephews did VERY well. But occasionally as shown above, they got car sick...We named Aarons car the vomit comet... It smelled so baaad.

Jenn and I at the Continental Divide. The rivers all flow to either the Arctic Ocean, or The Bering Sea from here. We were THAT far north, but a VERY gorgeous spot on the map.

The Alaska Highway was FULL of beautiful things to see. In this case a herd of wild buffalo greeted us ON the highway. I asked my brother what we should do, he said "Wait for them to move, they won't move unless they feel like it!". (Kinda the same attitude as some of my tenants!)

We are headed off on an adventure, no we're NOT moving!
Well... we're not moving US!

Finally, 4 kids in school!

As a lot of people do, we take a 1st day of school picture, this year is our first one that ALL four kids are going to school. Gabe is going into grade 11, Josh is going into grade 7, Ethan into grade 3 and Emily is in Kindergarten.





The funny thing about having this many children this far apart is that we will have something like 23 years of getting kids ready for school by the time Emily graduates. We again have 3 different schools to get kids to this year so we are bussing again this year. Bussing is good!

Coming Back...tomorrow!

There will be a new post here tomorrow, promise! I'm already working on a simple post for the first day of school.