The Secret Trip

Hello, everyone! It has been awhile since I last post. Been away a lot. I helped out at my church annual camp Y.E.S! for a week a half, come home for few days just so I can do the laundry, packed again and then off on a trip for my husband Martin's 40th birthday. Remember back in December I made a tag for him as a Christmas present? On it I wrote that he is going on a secret trip for his birthday. Well, last week we went on the secret trip. I didn't tell him what he is getting into until 12 mins before we arrived at our destination. It was a special meeting so I wanted him to be very surprise. I kept it from him for 8 months and it was not easy to do. So, what I did was I asked a pastor to play for Martin for an hour. Martin loves his style of music. The pastor agreed so we flew all the way to Connecticut to meet him. From the west coast to the east coast. Pastor Cary Schmidt is very nice, funny and easy to talk to. It was a privilege to meet him and his family. We had fun listening and watching him play and fellowship with him and his wife. Martin's heart is content now that he met Cary Schmidt. Cary Schmidt also writes many helpful and encouraging books that can be purchase at Striving Together Publications. You can also get his music there too. He has a blog that I love to visit and truly is an encouraging blog. It has help me a lot.

Thank you for stopping by! I will post some creative things for you to see soon.

Deanna

Vacation Pictures

Hello, stampers! I don't have any creative things to show you today but just a couple of pictures we took while on vacation last week. It was an anniversary/family/Mother's Day vacation. We went to Seaside, Oregon. We love that place and really had a good time. The picture above was taken on our 17th anniversary day. We invited one of our friend and her family on vacation with us. They watched ours kids so that we were able to go on a date on our anniversary. She is a wonderful friend. Not only did she watched our kids on our anniversary but also took care of our food bill while we were there. She was such a blessing! God is so good!

We made it a tradition to take special pictures by the beach while at Seaside. Above is one of the pictures of our kids. They are all grown up now from the last time we were at Seaside. You can see the pictures from 5 years ago here.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Deanna

Teen Week Camp YES!

Hello, everyone! Here are some pictures of the Teen Camp Y.E.S! Jarod was so happy he got to go to teen camp this year where all his friends are. Jarod and his friend buying candy from the Tuk Shop. It is place where the campers can buy candies.

Hope and her friend Grace. Her family is a missionary in Quesnel, BC. Their personality is so much alike.

 Kids getting their candies.

Faith and her friend Lindsay. They are junior campers but they are here at the camp because the parents are here helping. It is fun to get to enjoy camp for two weeks.

Game time.

Jarod cleans the washrooms.  I just had to take a picture of him doing something.

This was the camp speaker Al Stone. He's a hoot. This picture is of him as an announcer for the bucket ball game.

Bucket ball game. Kids got so vicious especially the girls.

 

Jarod's cabin friends. John-Marc was his counselor. The guy in sunglasses.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Deanna

My Family Annual Camping Trip

Hello, everyone! I'm back from my family annual camping trip. There were 24 of us camping together. We rented 4 sites and probably the noisiest bunch. lol We went to Shuswap lake up north/east about 5 hours drive from  Vancouver. It was a very nice campsite.

2 days before we left for our camping trip my oldest daughter asked me to make a camping book for her to write about her trip. Of course I can't just make 1 so I made 7 of these. I only made for the little ones this time since it was so last minute. Very simple book for her to track down what she did during camping.

 This was the section of the lake for dogs. You can let your dogs swim here.

 Picture of islands across the lake.

 Here a picture me sitting on a bench by the beach. Did you notice the level of water under me? 2 weeks before we were here it rained so much it flooded the lake and the inland. Lots of pools of still water on the inland so there were lots and lots of mosquito.  I got about 60 mosquito bites. I'm itchy all over.

Picture of the entrance.

Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of my camping trip. Thank you for stopping by!

Deanna

Happy Birthday Jarod!

13 years ago God blessed my husband and I with a baby boy. He was a tiny little one born at 5 lbs 1oz.  Now he is taller than me. The picture above was taken when he was 7 years old. He love boxes. Everytime I get an order of Stampin'Up! products he would say "Can I play with the box?" I let him of course and this was what he did. He sat in it and played his games. So cute! I just had to take a picture of him. I tried to get him to sit in the same size box for me to take a picture and he said "no". Teenager. Too embarrass now to do such thing.

This is him now. In Sept. he will be in the teen class at church. There is no one same age as him. Most of his friends are older than him so he can't wait to be in the same class and to go to the teen activities with them.

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."

 Psalm 127: 3

Deanna

Happy Valentine's Day

Hope you all are having a wonderful Valentine's Day.

My attempt at making a huge chocolate chip cookie heart today for my Valentine. It was so big that it couldn't fit onto the plate. I had to cut it down to fit it.

I've never done this for my husband before but this year I decided to decorate the table for Valentine's Day. My baby girl decorated the centre piece. I just gave her the stuff and she puts them together. The two older ones set up the table. My kids and I surprised their daddy when he got home for lunch. He was late and the kids got all hungry.

Here is a picture of how big the cookie was even after it is trimmed. My husband is going to have fun eating it.

Thank you for stopping by today!

"How deep the Father's Love for us. How vast beyond all measure!"

Deanna

Merry Chrismtas!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours. 

Wishing you the best this holiday season. 

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:6

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ Jesus the Lord."
 Luke 2:11
  

Deanna

Christmas Musical

I just want to invite those who live around the Greater Vancouver area to a Christmas Musical at my church this Sunday. Join us for a moving Christmas story with familiar Christmas songs, an encouraging drama and special message from Pastor Conner.

Here is the address to the church: 4440 Victoria Drive in Vancouver.

Hope to see you there.

Deanna

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just want to say Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadian readers. Have a blessed day.

I want to thank God for his loving kindness and all the blessings he has given to my family this year. But most of all I like to thank God for who he is.

Psalm 136 
"O, give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever." KJV

I want to leave you with a link to this blog that you can read of a thankful heart. This person went through a tough time fighting cancer but yet he still praise God for his trial. I get encourage every time I read his posts. Please take time and read his blog. Start from the beginning. You'll be greatly encouraged.

Camping Trip Album

 

Hello, everyone! Here is an album I made 2 years ago. I looked and looked for these pictures forever and finally found it. It was actually on my husband's computer file. I thought I deleted it. I never made one for myself. I gave them all away to my family. They all loved it of course. I made 5 of these albums and it took a long time to sponge every single pages.

Here  are few inside pages of the album. I didn't add pictures to all the pages. I left some pages for them to add their own pictures to it.

Here is a top view of all the pages.

My family are waiting for me to make the 2010 and 2011 camping trip albums. Yikes! I'm so behind! That's a total of 12 albums to make.

Thank you for stopping by today! Hope you enjoyed looking at the album!


Happy Stamping!

Deanna

Britannia Mine Museum

 Here are some pictures of the Britannia Mine Museum we went to at the end of July. Enjoy!

 Mine building built on the side of the mountain.

 Huge Mine Truck!

 DH being silly.

 Gold Panning area. It was fun panning for gold even though I didn't find any real gold.

 Wearing hard hats. Getting ready to ride a train to underground mine.

Train ride. It was dark in the mine tunnel so didn't have any good pictures of the inside of the mine. Also my camera battery died so no pictures after the mine tunnel. ( insert sad face)

Well, hope you all enjoyed some of the mine pictures and maybe visit the museum when ever you are in British Columbia.

I'm Back!

Hello everyone! I'm back from vacation but not really back to creating. Since I have not make anything yet I'll tell you about my vacation.

First, I want to say I'm happy for my daughter, Faith, who follow in believer's baptism on July  17, 2011. It took her 2 years to do it but she finally did it. She got baptized with her 4 friends and a boy at our church.

The next day I went to Junior Camp Y.E.S! for a week (5 days) to help out in the kitchen. It was Faith first year at Camp YES! and Jarod's 3rd year. They both had a great time and already talking about next year's camp. I couldn't help out at the Teen camp the week after. I had a camping trip of our own with my side of family.

Camp YES! Jarod's cabin.

Camp YES! Faith's cabin.


We went to Paradise Valley Campground in Squamish. There were 24 of us and a noisy bunch but we all had fun. My family is thinking about camping 2 different times next year. We'll see. Right after our family camping, just my immediate family, went to the Britannia Mine Museum. We went on a train ride to an underground mine and did some gold penning afterward. My kids enjoyed penning for real and fools gold. Jarod found a little piece of real gold and my girls just found fools gold. They didn't care cause they love rocks in any size, shape and colour.
That's it for today. I'll post pictures of the family camping trip and the mine museum in the next post. I still need to upload the pictures onto my computer.

Well, thank you for stopping by and wish you are having a wonderful summer so far. Have a good day!

Deanna

NSR: King James Bible Conference

Big sign by the staircase of our church.

Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday!

I want to show you some pictures of the King James Bible Conference that was held by our church GVBC this past Monday and Tuesday. These are pictures of the Bibles display. It was a wonderful conference and lots of things I've learned. Most of them I probably have forgotten. Good thing that all the sermons of the conference were recorded and will be available to watch soon. For now enjoy the pictures.


KJV Bible and a picture of King James. This is the English Bible that made it possible for us to read the inspired Word of God.


This Bible has a lock on it. Back in the old days Bibles were only available in the church. People had to go to the church to read the Bible which means the church had to stay open all the time. Because of this Bibles went missing so they decided to lock it up.


Spanish Bible. These letter openers and the magnifying glass are so pretty.




Pens used to write the Word of God.


Very thick Bibles with a pretty clasp on it.


More Bibles with pretty clasps. I love these ones with the engraving on them.


Cool little Bible scrolls.


Not sure what this is but my guess it is a mini printing press? Didn't have time to ask questions about all these Bibles and stuff on display. Busy tending to my kids and just enough time to take these pictures for you to see.

Well, this is a really long post but I hope you enjoy these wonderful pictures of the Bible display.