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Josh getting ready to do some home renovations. Why the googles and mask, I'm not too sure...But it made for some fun pictures :)

Even Emmett wanted to try...well ok, he didn't like it too much but he's still pretty cute :)

Our house is still coming along, if anyone is wondering why I haven't posted pictures yet. It's still in the "in between" stage so I'll post pictures when it's all finished. It's been a slow process, and I can't wait till I have my own kitchen again. Maybe now that the weather is getting a little cooler, we'll be forced to stay inside. :)

Our Long Weekend

Josh and I had a very memorable long weekend. We spent Saturday to Monday out at our church's family camp, playing fun games, and enjoying great fellowship with everyone . The highlight was on Sunday when Josh and 5 other people were baptized in the lake. It is always so encouraging to see fellow believers take a step in their walk with God, and declare to everyone how they want to live for Him. The service was amazing and it was great that many of Josh's family were there to share in the joyous occasion.

Josh being baptized by his grandpa.

A couple of our youth also got baptized which was very exciting. One of the girls requested we sing Brian Doerksen's, "The River" as she walked out into the water. It was a very emotional moment.

Ephesians 3: 16-21

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

For Jason and Darcie

Emmett has been our dog for a couple months and it's been so much fun! Here are some pictures and stories to show his funny personality.

When we first got Emmett, we brought him home from Vernon to find that we also had a momma cat with her kittens living under our shed. Emmett didn't have a very friendly greeting from the momma cat one day, and was freaked out of our shed for the next few weeks. Here is Josh trying to get the kitties to come close, but Emmett wouldn't go any further.

We have also found that Emmett loves to chew things when he is left alone for the day. Thankfully we haven't had anything too important that's been wrecked, well Josh might disagree. The other day we opened up the garage to find Josh's childhood cabbage patch kid, Sammy, was torn to pieces. I was actually quite happy with Emmett because no joke, this doll freaked me out. It looked like a doll in a horror movie. I guess Emmett agreed :)
Here's Josh when he was little and if you look behind him you'll see Sammy, the one with the scary eyes... :)

No more Sammy.....muhahahahah. (my evil laugh)

We were out with our College and Career Group at Josh's grandparents cabin last week. We brought Emmett out to run around and Josh found this frog. We let Emmett play with him for a while and then Rachel got this picture. I'm pretty sure Emmett was more scared of the frog then the frog was of him. No surprise there, Emmett is definitely a wimp :)

Overall, Emmett has been a lot of fun and brings many laughs to our house. Thanks Jason and Darcie for letting us have him while your away in Toronto. We miss you guys and hope the move went well!!

Happy Birthday Rachel

Rachel is leaving for Germany today for another year so we had a little early birthday celebration last night.

Showing off her gifts. (sorry for Josh. If only I knew how to crop a picture :)

We're going to miss you Rachel!

Birthday Fun and Happiness

It was our good friend's Jesseca's birthday last Saturday so we had a surprise party for her on Wednesday night.

Lillian made her an amazing Freightliner cake!

Good Times!

Also this week, Josh and I and 2 other couples from our biblestudy group have taken on the challenge to not be negative. Apparently there is a church that is fasting for 40 days from negativity, and so we thought we start off slow and try for 1 week to see how it goes. This means no negative thoughts, actions, or words from this Monday to next. It's crazy to realize how often we're actually negative. It's so easy to think negatively towards a bad driver, or get caught up with the gossip at work. Or even to be anxious and worry...all of these things are negative even if their just in our thoughts! It's definitely been a challenge, but a good one!

No Negativity coming from this couple :) I hope you all have a fabulouse weekend!

Camp-Out

This past Friday, Josh and I spent a night out camping with friends from our couples biblestudy group. It's been so great having other Christian couples that we can fellowship with every week! It was also nice to get away for a relaxing night, visiting by the campfire, and taking advantage of the nice weather on the lake.

All the boys showing us their wakeboarding moves. This was Josh's first time ever wakeboarding and he got up right away!

This is Tim. He's a proffessional :)

Here's Naomi showing the boys how it's done :)

I've only gone wakeboarding a couple times, but I think I'm addicted :)

Heather and Dan. Heather is having a baby, due at the end of September, so I think she was pretty content just sitting in the boat.

We only stayed one night, so it all went by so fast. We'll definitely have to do it again, but next time we'll stay for the weekend!

Kittens for Sale

The other morning, we let our dog Emmett out while we were getting ready for work. All of a sudden, I heard a yelp from Emmett and looked outside to see him being scratched by a cat. The cat then went to hide under our shed, while Emmett followed to sniff around. He had his nose under the shed, when the cat took another big swipe at him. We found out a couple days later that this cat was actually a mama protecting her 3 kittens that have made a home under our shed!!
We're waiting to see if any of our neighbors come looking for their missing cat, otherwise we have no idea what we're going to do with them. Neither of us our big cat fans, and considering Emmett is now scared of them, I don't think it would work too well having them as our pets :)
The kittens are pretty cute though...

Our Holidays

We are home from our wonderful holidays spent in the beautiful Okanagan. It was great to see and visit with all of our family and friends.
We left Friday, and got to Edmonton and grabbed some lunch and started to head out. We didn't get far, when all of a sudden we noticed our tire was feeling weird and we pulled over to find that a huge round piece of wood had made a hole in our tire. Thankfully, there was a Kal Tire exactly where this all happened, so we gave a call to Brad (who works at the main Kal Tire in Vernon) and he got our car worked on right away. Thanks Brad :) After getting all patched up we headed out again onto the open road. I love road trips...

The hightlight of our holiday was of course the wedding of my brother Jason to my new sister Darcie. They both looked so happy and Darcie looked gorgeouse. To celebrate their wedding, we took Darcie out for a bachlorette party on the Thursday before the wedding.

And onto the wedding....It was a beautiful day and I am so happy to have a new sister. Here's a picture of all the Weglo sisters...

Cutting the Cake

The week had a bittersweet ending. We had to say good-bye to Jason and Darcie who will be living in Toronto for the next four years. But the exciting thing is that Josh and I gained a new member to our family. Jason and Darcie couldn't bring their dog Emmett to Toronto with them, so let us watch him for the new few years. So meet Emmett, who is such a great dog, and will definitely be keeping us in good shape :)
He was so good on our long drive home. The poor guy was cramed in our small little car, so was very excited any chance to got to get out and run around.

We stopped at Mount Robson park for lunch. I think Emmett was pretty excited to stretch his legs.

Now were back at home, continuing the big job of renovating our house. There is still so much to do, but it's slowly coming along. I promise to post some pictures soon!

I'm finding myself waking up every morning these days saying, "ok, tonight I have to go to bed earlier!" But every night it's always as late as the night before, if not later.... We've been quite busy with working on our house, and visiting with friends and family, that the days don't seem long enough!

Josh is finishing up his last week in his 2nd year apprenticeship program. As soon as his exams are done on Friday, we're packing up our car and heading to Vernon for my brother's wedding. I'm so excited to have a week off, and I get to spend it in the beautiful Okanagan! We're really looking forward to seeing everyone again, and celebrating my brother's wedding.

Onto other exciting news, Josh's sister Rachel got home on Monday from being in Germany for a year. She's home for awhile and then heads back to Germany again for another year in August. She landed late Monday night, got hardly any sleep, then was leading worship for a ladies night at the church on Tuesday night. What a crazy girl. We could start to see her jetlag catching up to her early on in the evening, when she joined Jesseca and I making cookies at the church. Here are some pictures from the evening. Can you tell all of us were pretty tired, and giddy :)

So here we are, just mixing along. Jesseca and I were a team, trying to make better cookies then Rachel. If you look closely, you'll notice Rachel's dough is looking a little funny.

Jesseca and I start to realize that our cookie batter looks so much better and therefore, we'll have the better cookies.

Goofing around

We started to notice Rachel's cookies looking a little FLAT! I knew the batter looked a little funny :)

We'll blame it on the jetlag Rachel. We love ya and we're happy you're home!

This past weekend, Josh and I made another trip into Edmonton for our good friends Josh and Jessica's wedding. We also got to see my sister and her husband Brad who flew in on Friday night for the wedding. You know it's a good weekend when it's filled with lots of shopping, krispy kream donuts, visiting with friends, some good dancing (none from Josh of course), and not too much sleep :) It was great to hang out with Brad and Sarah again, and see so many friends from Vernon. What a great weekend!

Sarah and I getting ready to leave for the wedding

The Beautiful Bride and Groom.

I got to see my friend Carey, who I hadn't seen since her wedding last August!

Jessica and Josh

June 2, 2007