Saturday, January 3, 2009

holiday photos

Christmas 08 at Granny's
Kyle, Uncle Mikey and Aunt Brenda

Granny and AJ



Flood Dec 08

This is just down the street about 3 blocks from our house. Luckily we are high enough to have a dry basement!!!!!



I spent last night going through our digital photos. Can you believe we have had our camera for almost 3 years and i have not printed one single photo yet?? Bad bad bad. In September (i know i am a procrastinator) we pre-purchased 300 photos at Blacks and they give you a really cool CD to order your prints with. Well - 456 photos later - hmmm not sure if they will be ready in an hour :) We don't have high speed here in small town ON so i think it took all night to down load. I hereby promise to be more vigilant with my photos!!!!! After i ordered the photos, i then spent the rest of the night organizing the photos i knew we had but weren't in a book - including the before shots of our house (we moved 3 1/2 years ago) and Brad and Val's wedding (they got married 5 years ago). Not sure that our baby will ever have a scrap book let alone photos in a book some where :) So, while i was at it i figured i should get some photos on here for Grandpa Chuck. I know he will appreciate seeing what we have been up to. For those who don't know -Mike's Dad lives in Burkina Faso and drills water wells there. This is the second Christmas we have missed together - but we look forward to his visit in the spring. We will have Christmas then!!!!!

7 comments:

Karen said...

What a miracle that your basement stayed dry!

By the way, I look forward to seeing the pictures of the crib and nursery when it is finished. This from a woman who still has to hang a border in the nursery and who hasn't posted any photos of it herself...

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year guys, thanks for the pics. Yup, it's a lot drier here and I think ....... probably warmer!!!! Looking forward to seeing you in May.

Natalie and Chris said...

Wow Brenda, I can't believe your home wasn't affected, I have never seen so much water and hope I only have to see it in pictures...lol Looks like you had a great holiday season, to bad you didn't feel so good. I look forward to seeing the progress in the babies room. So many of us will be working on that room this year...yeahhh.
Natalie

Anonymous said...

Hi you two. Chuck sent me your blog address. Amazing! Family pics are great. I'm so excited for you and your little one. We have a compassion child in Ethiopia who we have supported for the last 15 years. Her name is Lidia Gelan and she is 19. We love her and praise God that she is a believer.
May God continue to lead you and open up the doors for you and your baby.
Jane Taylor....Port Lambton

Cara said...

Wow, quite the pictures of the flood. Where in Ontario are you? We live in Milton. My parents are near Ayr and the downtown part was flooded. Hope to meet you at the event in Cambridge.

The Mannings said...

Hi Cara - we live in New Hamburg. yep - we are going to the gathering in Cambridge - meet you there!!
Brenda

The Mannings said...

hi Jane - glad you got our link! So cool that you have a child in Ethiopia!!