Family Picture

(clockwise) Mom Carla, Dad Pieter, Me, Ben, Sister-in-Law Erika (with baby on board), Brother Bastian with Ivan, Dennis, and Sister Liselotte.

Wood floor is done!

Yay! The wood floor is done! It looks so nice! (no pictures yet of the completed floor..I'm always lagging a day or 3 on pictures). Its smoothness and has already been tested by some twirling ballerina-like swirls, and spinning breakdance- like moves by little Tyler Ennist, and Alex and I. We couldn't have done it (so fast) without all our friends who have been helping! One of them, the wood-floor laying expert, as a surprise, actually broke into our house one afternoon and worked on our floor for us while we were still at work! You could image the look on our faces to come home to such a surprise! Painting is also almost done. We've had one tiny hickup there in that one tub of paint was tinted wrong, so I have to go back, and convince ACE to mix me a free new one. We're saving the rest of painting till after the weekend though, because this weekend we will be moving in (into the garage and living room that is)! The plan for tonight is to pack up our appartment (thanks to an awesome "treasure cove of moving boxes" experience (*))!

(*) ask me if you're confused/interested :)

More pics from wedding

Some more pictures shot at the wedding...

- Grandma Bryan looking out from the balcony

- Tyler, Leanne (and baby!!), and Isaiah

- a few of Ben and I

- Ben and his cousins (???...yeah)

- cousin Emily and I

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson!

What a STUNNING bride!!! Such a beautiful wedding! (Sorry, no pics yet of the groom, or of bride and groom together.)

The bride Jennifer and her brother Tyler

Work over the weekend

See our nice garage-used-as kitchen/dining/storage/living - room? Over the weekend I (with help from Debbie!) finished painting the living room and kitchen, and the first coat of paint in all the rooms upstairs. Ben got started on the hardwood floor sunday afternoon with help from a whole bunch of guys! Thanks so much everyone! And thanks Debbie and Kristen for cooking all of us such a fabulous dinner sunday evening!! What a treat!

Quick pic of the crime scene

Even the doctor was impressed by the hole in Ben's finger. It's healing pretty well though now :)

Roarrr

For two reasons:
1) Ben and I killed another bear last night - Ben finished texturing the ceilings upstairs, and we finished painting the ceilings in the living room and family room downstairs. I love how our new ceilings look! Nice and smoothly textured, with no popcorn (and blue sparklies) in sight. Yay!
2) If you live anywhere in the vicinity of Laramie you know what I'm talking about: we had the most awesome lightshow last night - a HUGE thunderstorm! After we finished working on the house for the evening we took our camping chairs, opened the garage door, turned off all the lights and watched how the thundering bolts shook the ground. It was fantastic.

(P.S. Crazy thought: last year Today I left for Antarctica....couldn't imagine doing that again without Ben going with me!)