A Gift for Mom

To celebrate Mother's Day, my Mom and I played a friendly game of tennis this afternoon. It was the first time in a number of years that we were in the same province for the occasion. When I was leading 3 games to 1, I casually yelled across the net as I was serving for her not to give the game to me, at which point she exclaimed, "I'm not!" and began her underdog journey, eventually tying it up at 6 games each. You can't really tell from our expressions below, after our game, who won or lost. But for the record (that nobody's keeping), I won! But really, I had nothing to lose anyhow. If she had won, I would have just admitted that it was a Mother’s Day gift. In any case, it's a blast to have my parents visiting this week. Mom to play tennis and shop with, Dad to wash the dishes and oragnize Scrabble games... C'est la vie!


Here are some pictures with my grandmother, parents and Jeff at our supper with my uncle, aunt and cousins today.

Springish Activities

Finally the weather has warmed up enough for outdoor excursions. We've played catch and frisbee until our right arms hurt too much to go on. We've also become expert picnickers over the last few weeks. We don't have a BBQ, so we just pack the food, find a park, and fire up our signle-element Coleman stove. Sometimes we're extravagant (note the steaks below); other days, we opt for the simple and cheap (i.e., Kraft Dinner). I also forgot to pack our spoons for the KD...



Here are our friends, Quick and Quack. They always come visit us for a little snack at this park.


We also celebrated Jeff's 28th birthday recently.



Last weekend, I went to New Brunswick Bible Institute for the graduation and conference. It was a delightful road trip with Lydia and Ruth, and a very refreshing time at NBBI. Plus, I got some insight into Jeff's life, as he spent three highly eventful years there.

This past Saturday night we saw Robin Mark, an exceptional worshp leader from Northern Ireland. www.robinmark.com