Pake and Beppe - Misc 2

Some more random Pake and Beppe photos :).

Beppe and Grace at a local park

Grace playing hide and seek at a local playground

Kate hiding

Pake homeschooling Zara and Kate.
He read the Read Aloud in different voices, very funny!

Grace with her birthday cake that she made

Family Photo in front of seminary

Albert and Pake

Our Family

Pake and Beppe - Misc 1

Phew finally got my favorite web browser back also :). Explorer didn't really like blogger so I gave up and asked Albert nicely to upload Chrome, pleeeease? He is a good man and did what I asked :). 

Enjoy these family photos of Albert's parents visit. 

Dinner at Ikea. (free dinner for kids on Tuesdays!!)
 Albert's parents had never been!

Sewing lessons!

Pake playing Dutch Biltz

Summer photo at Lake Michigan 

We took one in Winter at exactly the same spot!

Michaela at the Bass Pro shop

Grace

Kate

Zara

Dinner with all Kiwis!
(Vooys', Flinns, a Holtslag, Couperus Senior and us!)

Pompton Plains

We had the privilege to be able to make a detour home from Wellandport to visit Pompton Plains where we served last summer. When we left Pompton Plains we didn't think we were going to see these lovely people again this side of heaven but God is good and planned our summer in such a way that we were able to! We stayed with the Rossis. They were a Mid America Student family. Roberto is now the associate Pastor at Pompton Plains. We were so blessed by the Rossi's generosity and willingness to host us. We were able to relax and spend time catching up with old friends. I was also able to meet a 'new' friend Franci. I had heard of her and read her blog but I had never met her. So since I was kind of in the same part of the country as her, I asked her if I could visit. What a lovely visit it was. It was great to put a 'face' to a name! Driving to her house after living in the country for 11 weeks was a bit of a challenge! Franci also told me to drive to the river where you can get an awesome skyline view of NY, unfortunately (arrgg) I had not only left my camera behind but also my ipad so no photos :(. I did look at it was well worth it!

  

New Jersey!

 

At the playground with the Rossis

 

Dinner with some special people.
(Grace's special friends)

 

Visiting another special couple.
We spent a lot of time last summer at their pool!

After looking through my photos from last summer
I realised that I didn't take any photos of this pool. So here it is!

The girls are having races in their tubes!

More races

Kate

Me on lifeguard duty.

Zara, look at me I did it!
(she retrieved the rings from the bottom of the pool)

Michaela showing off her flips

Girls with the special couple!

Atlantic Ocean!

It's been a looooong time since I've been in/seen the Atlantic Ocean! Some of the church people at Pompton Plains organised a day at The Shore to which we were invited. What a great time to catch up with people we thought we would never see again! Thanks so much for organising this! The girls LOVED the beach very much. They loved the waves, the sand, and the fellowship. Albert (although being one of the few men) enjoyed himself very much also. He also had a go on one of the boogie boards. I was surprised that he actually went for a swim in the ocean since he is not much of a swimmer at all. Thanks Aaron for being there, I'm sure that helped! (The Warner's did their summer internship at Pompton Plains this summer so we caught up briefly and met their new daughter for the first time! Abiel was born after we left for Canada).

 

On that Friday we left again for Chicago. We are grateful that we were able to catch for a few days with some of the people from our last internship. We were encouraged by the work the Lord is doing in Pompton Plains and also in our friends and graduate of Mid America, the Rossis. Unfortunately I don't have any photo's of our time with the Rossis, we were probably too busy having fun/catching up!

 

So here ends our summer internship. We enjoyed it but after being on the 'road' for 12 weeks we were ready to go home and relax. It had been a full/packed but extremely joyful 12 weeks. We had about two weeks before classes started again. We were ready to spend some family time! Our long drive home was uneventful, only stopping for gas. Thankful for cruise control! We arrived home before Albert's parents and the Bumas and so had some time to unpack before they arrived. So here starts the next instalment of blog posts. The visit of Albert's parents!

 

Kate in the white top

Our group

Michaela

Aaron left and Albert on the right

Kate

Zara

Boys pose

Semi serious

Bye Bye Canada!

We left early on Monday morning for Pompton Plains. NJ. Albert's parents were staying in Canada and we were meeting again in Chicago late on Friday. Here are some lasts for the summer.

 

The girls ready for the trip!
(Phew, got all the special teddies!)

We LOVED living here, cute little house!

Lasts

We took the rainbow bridge for the last time
to get one more glimpse of the Falls!

Here they are! I never tire of that view!

USA!

Packing Up!

Our last Sunday...

 

It was always going to be a short visit and we knew that we were here only temporarily but what a great 11 weeks we had. Thank you doesn't it really do it justice to thank the people of Wellandport URC to make us feel welcome and VERY loved while we were there! We were VERY well looked after. I keep saying this but it is always a privileged to be involved in people's lives. Wellandport URC had a nice morning tea with special cake for us which the girls enjoyed. (The girls didn't enjoy the goodbyes so much :( ) So while saying our "goodbye" for now was hard, there was a fun time waiting for us. Spending time with Albert's parents whom we had not seen for two years. Here are some of our leaving photos.

 

 

'Formal' photo, very nice I say!

Kate with her special friend
(they share the same birthday
which Kate thought was VERY cool!)

Our final meal in Wellandport. The Bumas supplied most of dinner
 (and cooked it for us) How cool is that?

Not only did they cook us dinner
but also took quite a bit of stuff back for us!

Thank you!

We took more than that but we didn't need
to use our roof top bag which was very nice