DON'T FORGET

Hey, guess what! It's time to "spring forward"! Yes, that's right...another whole hour of daylight in the evening! So turn your clocks forward one hour tonight, or if you're politically correct, get up at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning and do it.

WOWZERS!!!

Did you hug your kids today?

Did you go outside today?

Did you have a nice big bowl of ice cream today?

Well, I didn't hug my kids today...I couldn't find them anywhere! I did hug my girlfriend though :) Hey, today was three months! Yup, and I even remembered! Here's a tip from a guy who has the most brutal memory ever...if you're gonna do something significant that you don't want to forget, do it on a very easy-to-remember day...like New Year's day.

I went outside today, and boy was it beautiful. Liane and I went for a walk to the park this morning and did a little sun tanning! Well I guess it's not really sun tanning if you're wearing pants and a jacket, but the sun was sooo warm :) Liane showed me some pictures of her niece and nephew that her brother Daniel had emailed, and wow are they cute kids! Can't wait 'til I get to meet them.

It was so nice I decided to eat lunch on the deck. I really wanted to bbq, but my bbq is still at mom and dad's place, so I had to fry the smokies. Just not the same :)

Work is crazy busy right now. My day consists of three things...selling bikes, building bikes, and repairing bikes. It's great being able to doing something I enjoy so much for a living! Today was really fun at work...everyone seemed to be in a slightly crazy mood - especially Harry. It's amazing what a little sunshine will do to people's moods!

Well, I just polished off a big bowl of ice cream, complete with a nice soft Hamburger cookie. Liane and I made some cookies last night...late last night...I think we finished 'em at like 12:30. Good times. We went for a little walk last night too and dropped in at Grandpa T's place for a while...Uncle Ken, Auntie Sheila, and the boys were there too. Sounds like Grandpa's got a bit of a cold coming on...not fun! I'm glad my cold didn't last too long, and it was gone by the time the nice weather started. Still have a bit of a linger cough though.

Well, gonna hit the sack early tonight I think...we've got men's prayer breakfast at the church tomorrow morning @ 8:00, and then I work 'til 6. Should be fun!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend :)

Verse Of The Day

Psalm 145

I will exalt you, my God the King;
I will praise your name for ever and ever
Every dai I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.
Great is the Lord and most worthy of priase;
his greatness no one can fathom.
One generation will commend your works to another;
they will tell of your mighty acts.
They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty,
and I will meditate on your wonderful works.
They will tell of the power of your awesome works,
and I will proclaim your great deeds.
They will celebrate your abundant goodness
and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in love.
The Lord is good to all;
he has compassion on all he has made.
All you have made will praise you, O Lord;
your saints will extol you.
They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might,
so that all men may know of your mighty acts
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures through all generations.

The Lord is faithful to all his promises
and loving toward all he has made.
The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all those who are bowerd down.
The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food at the proper time.
You open your hand
and saisfy the desires of every living thing.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and loving towerd all he has made.
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desires of those who fear himl
he hears their cry and saves them.
The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.

My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord.
Let every creature praise his holy name
for ever and ever.

I love the part where it talks about generations proclaiming God's goodness to the next generation. I may not have a next generation to pass it on to yet, but do I have the kind of enthusiasm that David has here? Am I bursting at the seams? Do I keep it all inside because I'm afraid of what people will see if the seams burst?

Hope you guys enjoy the Psalm...read it a couple of times if you have to...pretty powerful stuff.

The other day I mentioned I'd email the hiking clips to anyone who wanted them...turns out the clips are anywhere from 10 to 20mb, so I can't email (10mb limit) so if you've got a hotmail or yahoo address, send it to me and I'll add you to my instant messenger, so I can send it to you that way. Have and awesome day! Enjoy the beautiful weather!

Perma-grin :)

Wow, what a great weekend! So many things that I wanted to post on here, but I've been too busy creating memories to bother trying to write them down here. Here's a little recap of a few highlights.

Sunday afternoon I went with Liane to a birthday party for David. It was my first big gathering with her family. I must admit I was a little nervous beforehand...not that I'm not good friends with them already, but it was kinda weird being the only non-German person there. But it was no big deal...in fact, I had an awesome time! Watching David open his gifts was hilarious! Someone gave him a flashlight, and he didn't really notice the flashlight, he was totally pumped about the batteries that came with it though...he even started singing about them :) The coolest part was when they got out some books, and we had a time of praise and worship. Never experienced that at a gathering before, but it was pretty awesome! I didn't know a lot of the songs, but I sang 'em anyway :) We sang a few english ones too.

After David's party, Liane and I went to my Grandma & Grandpa Wolfe's place for an easter gathering. But everyone except for my parents and my uncle John had left a few minutes before we did. We stayed to visit with Grandma for a while, but it was also her 75th birthday, so she kept getting phone call after phone call and we hardly got to talk. It was kinda funny.

Then we went to Heinrich and Irene's place for a while. Kian and Lea, and Irene were all still kinda sick, but we had a great time anyway. We had a little bonus excitement when someone must have tried to get into Liane's car, 'cause the alarm went off. We ran outside, but it was really dark and we couldn't see anyone, but I'm pretty sure I heard someone laughing. After that Heinrich told us a sweet story about a time him and some guys set up a stakeout and almost foiled a robbery.

Yesterday (monday) was a ton-o-fun too. In the morning Liane and I went to Wpg to pick up what was left of my camera. The camera body, two lenses, and my cell phone are all done...destroyed...beyond repair I think. After lunch we went to make an insurance claim, and then went with Tim, Beth, and Ash to the lake trail in Morden. It was absolutely hilarious. There was some significant melting going on, so things were real muddy, but there was still enough snow/ice around to go island hopping down the trail. It was a super slippery, wet, muddy experience. And I'm not sure why, but everyone except me must have figured since it wasn't minus 30 outside that they wouldn't need boots. Wrong! Everyone had soaked feet pretty early on, but to their credit, no one wanted to turn back :) Maybe because we could tell we were in for a real good time with Ash falling all over the place. Beth has got a pretty good post on the afternoon's events, and to keep from being redundant, I'll leave it at that, and you can read her post here. One small note though...she doesn't really mention how high and steep Ash's fall was...it was pretty big. I thought there was no way she was going to come away from it without at least one broken bone. And at the same time, it was one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen! I was exactly like in the movies where the guy goes crashing through the jungle, or rolling down a mountain. I'm not sure how to post video clips on here, but if you send me an email, I'll send you some clips from the hiking trip that'll be sure to make you bust a gut!

Ok, that's enough for now! Oh yeah...yesterday at worship team practice I mentioned to Tim, Beth, Bruce, Heath, Liane, and whoever else was there that I should start carrying a notebook to write down all the hilarious stuff that gets said. Here was Tim's quote of the day (I can't remember the context around it, but it was really funny. He said, in a very matter of fact voice when everything was quiet "well I'm the only one here with a real personality!". So I'll leave it at that :)

photo by Warren Thiessen Copyright 2005

photo by Warren Thiessen Copyright 2005

The Afterburn

Well, I slept like a baby last night. Actually, why does the saying "slept like a baby" refer to a really good sleep? Aren't babies often up during the night? Whatever. Everything feels surprisingly good this morning, with the exception of my shoulders and the sunburn on my neck and face. Yes, that's right...sunburn! Yeeeeehaw. I was going to bring my camping hat along which has a nice wide brim all around, but I thought it would be too cold and I'd have my toque on the whole time. Boy, was I ever wrong. It was sooo warm. It literally felt like 15 to 18 degrees. No jackets. No toques. No gloves. It was great.

The most difficult part of the hike was the snow conditions. They had four to six inches of fresh snow a few days before, but it had settled and started to melt. It was too deep to walk on properly, and two wet and sticky to ski or snowshoe properly. Mark tried to use his snowshoes, but snow kept balling up under the crampons. Every stride we took was a battle. First the snow was very unstable, so your ankle would roll one way or the other, and then when you tried to push off and go forward, the snow just gave way. It was very slow going. I was probably the most fortunate because I brought my trekking poles which helped immensly for balance, especially with the 30 pounds on our backs.

Oh our backs. Yikes. I had no idea my shoulders could get so sore. I have a decent backpack, and it fits properly, so I'm not sure what the problem was. I sure hope I can build them up though, or there's no way I'll be able to do the Maah Daah Hey, 'cause we'll be carrying way more weight.

Anywhoos, gotta run...worship team practice in half and hour.