Daniel goes to High School

Daniels class, 8th grade were recognized as having successfully completed middle school and able to enter high school. Daniel had pretty good achievements for the year, he had "A" average over all and achieved the highest grade in maths.

Timothy finishes 5th Grade

For those of you reading this who are non-American, 5th grade is the last grade in elementary (primary), after which the student goes into middle school, which is 6th - 8th grade. Well Timothy has finished elementary and next year will be in middle school. So in recognition of the fifth grades moving up to middle school they have a 5th grade promotion celebration.

This is Mr Hays the 5th grade teacher acknowledging how Timothy has done during the year, sharing about his character and giving him advice and encouragement for the future. In 5th grade Mr Hays gives all the students nicknames that suite their character, Tmothy's was T3, at home we have always called him TT, this was primarily because of all the Ts in his name, in 5th grade T3 came from him being given the nick name "Tenacious Timothy Tutty"
The 5th Grade Class

Timothy with Mr Hays. We consider ourselves to have been greatly blessed to have had Mr Hays teach our children. Having taught Daniel and Sonja, Timothy is the third of our four children he has now taught. We are so thankful for Mr Hays, not only is he is a wonderful teacher, he has a deep love for the Lord, a strong desire to live for the Lord and as such he not only want to teach the kids but he also want to encourage them to love Jesus and to live for Him. Our kids have really loved having him as a teacher and we are so grateful for his input it their lives. (this in no way takes away from all the other teachers who have had a part in our children's live or how much they enjoy and like all their teachers and how much we appreciate them) We hope that Mr Hay and his wife will still be here when Karina enters 5th Grade!

Our Garden

Our little garden is starting to take over our balcony. Have transplanted the seedlings into bigger pots we have far more plants then we need or can keep, so we are starting to give some to our friends.

Karina arrives home from school one day with two tiny seedlings and what they were we had no idea, so I put them in two pots (the two on either side) and they quickly started to grow and produce big leaves. Shortly afterwards Karina said to her mother, "Once my plants grow you won't need to buy cucumbers anymore"! (Bless her little heart) Yes they are cucumber plants.

How does you garden grow?

Just to up date you on how our garden is going, not sure what we are going to do with all these tomata & pepper plants, if you would like some give me a call.

NO SNOW! - Finally

At last the snow is gone and we are having some warm weather. Today it was 21 -22c

Done Well

Both Sonja and Daniel did really well in basketball this year, dispite this being only Sonja's first year and Daniel's second year playing. Here they are recieving their achivement awards from their coaches.

Spring is here-ish

It is meant to be spring time, usually by the beginning of April the snow is gone and the weather warming up with the trees and flowers beginning to bud and the grass getting greener. Well it is the middle of April we still have some snow laying around the temperture is not all that warm, we still have nights where it goes below 0c.

As spring was approching we decided this year to try and have a little indoors garden. This is the humble beginning, some herbs, cherry & regluar tomato, hot and sweet peppers. Not sure how we are going to manage them all on our balcony. We will keep you up to date on how the gardning is going.
With the so called return of spring we are also see the return of some of the wiser creatures who flow to warmer parts for winter. We were amused to see these ducks swimming in a poddle left by the melting snow on the grass verge in the middle of the road. All the bigger pond and lakes are still frozen so I guess that they had to settle for whatever they could find.

The day after taking the photo of the ducks, it again snowed, in fact it snowed real heavy, overnight we had 15cm/6inchs of snow.

The day after it snowed, I was driving by the ducks again and this time saw them swimming around in snowy sluchy water. Poor guys were probably thinking we should have stayed where it was warm. We also planted some sunflowers, not sure what we will do with them if they reach their protential hight of 1.5 metres.