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I'm trying to post a picture link again for new pics. Apparently it didn't work last time, so try those again too.

Halloween Pictures

Random Stuff and Ultrasound

Life Recently

Hope it works!

Cute idea

Ok, please don't think less of me, but.... today I watched the Martha Stewart show. It's true, but I can honestly say it was the only channel we had, the only other one we have was for some reason not working, and it's the View which isn't much better I agree. So why did I turn the T.V. on? I don't know, but I found a really cute idea, so cute it needs to be shared. I know Shari will love it 'cause we're crazy knitters. They use a knitting machine (cheaters) and then felt it in the washer, I didn't even know you could do that, so cool!


She makes lots of different animals into backpacks or pillows, so cute! She knits them using wool yard and then turns them into felt and adds the little finishing touches. They have the template on Marthas site, but I couldn't get it to come up. I also went to the original site to look at what else they have. Enjoy, I did. Ciao

touque or thong?

Oh Linds, you'll love this. I'm looking for a touque pattern for my bro and found this instead!



Does that beat the old patterns you found at your parents? Hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing!

This is a true test to see who still reads this blog. Is it indeed just Linds as I had thought, or will I get comments from Grandma and Mom-in-law, yipee! Love you all!

The Best Thing Ever
FOUND by Sam in New York, New York
It was the first nice day of spring so I decided to go to Central Park. I found a nice plot of grass to lay down on and eventually fell asleep. When I awoke this was folded up behind my head.

Linds you totally got me addicted to the found web site I saw this on there today, it was SO SWEET!

For the non facebookers

New Pictures
My froggy

theres some links for some updated photos, I hope it works! I feel bad neglecting the people who don't have facebook! Sorry guys!

I kinda updated on our life last time, it was a sorry excuse for an update. But really things are just in a nice groove and theres not much to talk about. I still feel like I want to hibernate. I'm just holding back from getting the Christmas decorations out. I'll wait a couple more weeks. I am using my Christmas mug already (eggnog in the coffee every morning) Oh and don't judge me for drinking coffee while I'm pregnant 'cause I refuse to be judged on that. I tried, I really did. I choose to believe that it's good for the baby. And of course listening to Christmas music:-) Oh and my Christmas list is complete and reveiwed and edited and expanded and revised. I'm ready. Except for the cards. I've been working all week trying to find a simple layout for nice Christmas cards and I just don't like anything I do. I have a friend who throws stuff together in a few minutes that always looks so amazing. I should break into her house and steal her cards for ideas, or maybe I could just ask. Or maybe we could trade brains for awhile.
Ok, that's enough rambling for one day. I'm getting a bump, I have no clothes that fit, it's more frustrating than it seems it should be. Even my sweat pants are tight, what the heck, it's my tummy that's supposed to grow not my butt! Waahhh!!!

I took these last week. I gave her a haircut on Corryns request, hee he. I've been trying to put pics on facebook, but it's not working for some reason. I've been wanting to just write an update on life lately, I guess it's that time again. Life is moving into winter and it certainly feels like it. I feel like we're getting ready to hibernate. Getting canning, cleaning, cooking done. I love the feeling of getting lots done, and I've been getting LOTS done the past few weeks. I love winter. It's so cozy. I love eggnog, and Christmas and soup and pumpkins and mittens, and ice skating, and sleds. Not to say we have all of that already, but I'm looking forward to it, and I've been having fun prepping for it all.
I've been reading good books lately too. Right now I'm reading "The Omnivours Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. I highly recommend anyone to read it. I learned more in 50 pages than I learned in three years of high school. I know I wasn't the best student, but what I'm saying is, he writes in such a clear way, even I can understand.
I don't know what else is up, just life, and it's good. I actually really don't like writing without knowing who is reading. The fact that this gets imported onto facebook means LOTS of people could be reading. I just don't want to sound superficial. Does that make sense? Kinda sad I guess. But it's been nice connecting to people lately, and I guess I'll just leave it at that.

Summer Update

I really want to put summer pictures on here but our internet never works, so you'll all have to be patient. We've had a fun summer though. Lots of good weekend trips, picking berries etc. The last two weeks we spent, oh just about everywhere. We were in Oregon for a week. A couple of days were spent at the beach with all of Matthews siblings and families. It was just wonderful to see everyone again and get all these little cousins together! Then we were in B.C for a week just relaxing, hiking, and baking in the sun. It was so good to see good friends again and some family. The pictures are coming soon and are a lot more exciting, just thought I'd let you know we're still here, just kinda boring I guess. Actually not boring enough which is why I haven't been on the computer at all. I'm working again which gives me some computer time, but still no pictures. Ciao

More on Walking

Just a quick note to say that there is a youtube video of some of Katelyns first steps. Just go to www.youtube.com and search for Walking Wonder or Katelyn Hildebrant and it should come up in the list. I was talking to my mom on the phone while recording, fun times. This was just the funniest thing in the world to me and I realized that that is just part of being a parent. Enjoy!

Walking Wonder

Our little girl took her first official steps today! Don't make fun of how many pictures I posted, I'm a first time mom and this is seriously the hight light of my life! We knew it was coming, she's been very steady standing up for awhile, and could lunge towards us for a few days. Today she just woke up from her nap, stood up on the deck and walked towards nothing. Then she kept doing it! So exciting! I love that as a mom these things truly are the most amazing things in the world! She also dumped an entire box of crackers upside down, and of course this was thee most hilarious thing I'd ever seen. I love that about being a parent. It's 1am and I just can't sleep! It's frustrating. My mind is just racing. I'm getting the going back to work jitters. I'm analyzing everything. Trying to imagine exactly what it will be like and just how terrible it will be. But if I think like that then of course it will be terrible. But like everything else I have to remember that God is in control and that's why anything is possible. If I did it on my strength alone I would be a weepy mess in the corner. It's a miracle!
I'm gonna try to fall asleep again, I'm pretty sure I had regular coffee tonight thinking it was decaf, oh well at least I got this done!

Happy Birthday Katelyn!

So it finally came. My baby is one! She's still my baby until she can say otherwise though. She's my little snuggler, and still wants love when she falls. I just can't get enough of this kid! I honestly didn't want to put her to bed tonight. We were having so much fun and I just wanted to nibble her all up! She got so many sweet presents for her big day, what a blast! Check out some pictures here. We love you all tons, and you should all really get facebook, it's so wonderful to get connected with people from so long ago. And it would simplify my life.... I'm not selfish nope!

Links to pictures for non facebookers

You can check out pictures of us on facebook even if you aren't a facebooker I don't think the "May Long" one works, but once you're in one album you should be able to look at that one too.

May Long

This 'n That

Wedding

Katelyn Cutness

Need I say more?

This is today, this picture could never depict how cold and depressing it is out there. I'm making soup, nuff said.

This picture was yesterday, building the deck, playing with the idea of putting the garden in, waaaa!

I just took these pictures today. If anyone knows how to flip these pictures on blogger, let me know. Do I have to do it before I upload them, how annoying! Matthew is almost finished our deck, yay! I have big dreams for our yard this summer. I started some veggies in peat pots and the beans are already almost 2 feet tall! I really need to get them in the ground, I'm scared about how cold it still is though. Ok this picture of Katelyn, so FUNNY! She fell asleep sitting up in her crib. She's done it before but this time I remembered to grab the camera. Last time she had crib rail marks on her little forehead, poor girl! She's so funny. I can't figure out how to turn it sorry. Enjoy, talk to you soon!

May Long Weekend

I posted a bunch of new pics of our WONDERFUL weekend on facebook (for those that still just read my blog you should sign up for facebook so you can see my pictures) This past weekend my cousin Curtis got married. All the cousins and everyone was here, it was so amazing. My grandma also turns 80 today so we were also celebrating that. It was better than I could have ever wanted. It was just so nice for us to all laugh and be dumb together. Most of them are gone already, boo. I'm so distracted and need to feed my little girl some lunch so I'll talk to you all lates! Ciao

Hello hello faithful blog readers. Our internet has been down a lot lately so I figure I should take advantage now while I can. Between entertaining friends, being a mom, running fun errands, and starting the building of our next two houses, it's been a busy week. We've had a lot of people over lately, I love it! Our bestest friends from here just moved away this week, I'm more devastated than I was prepared for. We've been friends and neighbours for what feels like our whole lives (in reality it wasn't even three years!) They stayed with us their last two days here, it made it feel like they were just on a trip visiting and it was normal. But driving by their old house all weekend is a painful reminder of their absence. They will be dearly missed. We build houses with my dad for a living and we started another two last week. Matthews dad is coming up tomorrow to help out. It's always SO nice to have him, we just wish his Mamma could be here to. Besides the fact that he brings us wonderful treats from the States, its just nice to spend time with him and use his help. At the end of this month my whole family is staying with us for a big family weekend, I'm so excited. I've been thinking about it constantly for months already, it can't get here fast enough. My bro hasn't even seen our house! My cous is getting married and my Grandma is having a big 80th birthday party. All the cousins etc. will be here, I LOVE my family so much. Life is great. Katelyn is growing, and is cuter everyday. I really like facebood lately (this blog gets imported into facebook so you can read it there too). I love finding people I haven't talked to in awhile. At the same time it's weird wondering who is reading about me and seeing my pictures. I started this blog so long ago and thought only my fam was reading it. Now I have troubles just blocking out the thought of so many people and just writing. Anyways, thats all for today. I have to get some sleep my body is feeling worn down. Oh and I didn't have any new pictures, but I like posting pictures, so here is the highchair that I want. I really like the one we have, it's very vintage but it's also falling apart. Ciao

Tupperware

Yipeee I just won an intense bid for Tupperware on eBay, I'm so excited. Yes it's true, my life is about plastic food containers, woo. This would have cost 250.00 new. It's barely used and I paid 39.00. This chick tried to outbid me in the last seconds, but I was too speedy. That was my first close call, it was so much fun! I gotta go feed my baby night night milk, ciao!

This picture is our lake about a month ago. Now our lake is filling up with water. The lake was dug behind our house much to our surprise and delight. Everything is melting so much, spring is in the air. I love it! We played outside today and the BBQ is broken in. Tim and Aria came over for delicious steak tonight and we tried Fat Bastard Shiraz. It was alright, pretty much like any other wine, but I'm pretty picky so other people might really like it. I'm spoiled 'cause Matthews bro and sis-in-law gave us such good wine when we were down there last, nothing can compare. An update on our friend that I mentioned in my last blog.... they're still doing great, I don't know if I said that last time. They are so filled with peace it can only be from God. Keep praying, and pray for their family and friends too, it's really hard. She's still in the hospital, hopefully home tomorrow. I got to talk to her for a bit today. I made her a basket with stuff to fill her time and focus her mind. I've been really emotional all week, but am feeling a lot better now. Thats it for today, I love facebook and am so addicted. Our internet has been really sketchy, which is a blessing in disguse, otherwise I wouldn't get anything else done. Ciao

Facebook

We were in Calgary last week for Easter. Katelyn did her share of the driving, helpful little tyke. It was so unbelivably cold while we were there. Other than that it was really good. Trav and Laur were in town which is the main reason we went. It was so fun to hang with the friends again, and to see the fam. It's good to be home, but hard too. We got home to find out our best friends here lost their baby. She was about 20 weeks pregnant (halfway) and they found out they were having twins but both had died. I'm feeling pretty weighed down and sad right now. They are doing so well. Please pray for them and the people around them. They need the support right now. God is really covering them in peace right now, and we are reminded that this is not hopeless. We live a life with hope, praise God!
I'm trying out facebook to see if I'll like it and stick with it. So if you wanna check that out in the next few weeks I'll post pics 'n stuff. You'll also be able to access this blog from there. I don't what the link is for it. You can just search my name on facebook.com and it should come up. Thats all for now. Cheers
Holls

Long Time!

I feel like it's been forever since I've written! I've been yearning and longing to be here and talking to you all. Our internet is TERRIBLE! I want to cry when we don't have net access. I actually did cry one of the first days whilst on the phone with the repair company. A lotta good that did us. It's completly a fluke that we have access now and I'm praying I'll still have it when I'm done writting this. Ok, I may be a little dramatic, but I have missed my computer the past couple weeks.
The weather here is goregous! I am fully infected with the most wonderful spring fever. I didn't realize how much I missed the fresh air and sun. I mean I've been outside this winter but it just feels so much different in the spring. We still have 10 foot snow banks in our front yard. BUT, I was able to take the stroller out today because some of the roads are pretty dry, yipee! I love outside.
My biggest most excited new news is that I got to milk a cow this weekend!!! It was so much fun. Ok actually really weird, but the whole farm experience was amazing. One of my biggest dreams is to have a small farm. I want to be as self sufficient as possible. It has a lot to do with health, but also just the experience and work and all that. I want chickens, a cow, a goat, some horses, some sters, dogs of course and we'll see what else. Oh and I want a huge red barn and a beautiful house with an indoor pool and a massive veggie garden and green house. Oh man fun times. I'm so excited to start my garden this summer. I'm gonna get my seeds this week and start some of them inside since our growing season is pretty short.
We had Matthews soccer team over for dessert tonight. It was a bit busy, but really nice to have them over. We invited the team and wives/girls etc. I WAS THE ONLY GIRL WAAAA!!! It was ok though. I made peach and blackberry cobbler and that super easy and delicious chocolate pudding cake thing. They ate every drop and would have had twice as much I'm sure. I used 8 cups of peaches, I mean this thing was MASSIVE. Anyhoo.
We've actually been having so much fun lately. Hanging out with so many amazing people. I feel so good lately. I'm really emotional right now, but I also feel really open to loving people. I've had so many amazing talking with people lately. I don't even know how it happens, God just meets us and gets us going, it's great. Some guys are still here and Katelyns having a hard time staying asleep. We need to have more kids so theres more noise in our house and she becomes a heavier sleeper. Well I guess theres more reasons to have more kids. I'm reading A Clockwork Orange right now. I love it, the language is just hilarious. I'm so into it now I natually want to use his quirky words (slovos). I'll spare you, but read the book. Be prepared though, it's sad and disturbing.
I don't have much more to say. We're going to Calgary for Easter (the motivation was actually to see you guys T&L, don't be offended anyone else but you're always there and we love you all tons). My motivation is also to shop for super cute rubber boots. For me, not Katelyn as you may have thought. It's gonna be a very muddy spring. I guess that's it for now, hope you're all doing great. Love you all

For Auntie Felicia

This post is for Auntie Felicia, however feel free to enjoy even if you're not Felicia. I've been neglecting her lately. She needs pics of her niece! It was also her birthday last week yipee!

All this picture taking makes a girl tired, I'll just suck my fingers for awhile, that always makes me feel better.

Wanna a piece of nanna? I'm wearing this cute dress from Auntie Jos today even though it's COLD outside. Daddy put little jean capris from Auntie Laura with it, so adorable!!

Yea, like I said, it's COLD here! I took this picture last week. To shovel our drive way you honestly have to throw the snow onto a 10 foot snowbank, it's so tiring!!

Awww I love you too sweetie. She was so grumpy while taking these sunny pics, just needed some lovin'.

Gotta love those pretty blues.

We love you Auntie Flee, hope you are having a great day! Oh and even though I've told you this story I'll tell it again for everyone else. Last night I put Katelyn to bed at 8ish and she just played for a bit in her crib like usual and then went to sleep. When I checked on her around 10 she had fallen asleep sitting up with her forehead leaning against the crib rails and her little feet poking through the rails. She had brutal lines on her head when I laid her down, and she just sucked her fingers through the whole thing, so cute. Ciao everyone!