Our trip to CHilliwack/Christmas

It is absolutely pathetic how many pictures I took while in Chilliwack. I am usually the queen of taking pictures.. and my kids know it.  We left for Chilliwack on Dec. 23rd, a Friday. John worked in the morning and we left right after lunch, arriving in Chilliwack around 6:00. We stayed at John's sister and bro-in-law Gord and Ev's house.  John's mom and dad came over that night yet to see us.  Saturday morning, we had buffet style breakfast (basically every morning we had several choices for breakfast: eggs, toast, yoghurt with granola and fruit, cereal, toast, rasin toast, etc).  Saturday was basically a lazy day, had a few of John's family visit.  Saturday night we went to the Christmas program at the Broadway Mennonite church.  This is the 3rd year in a row that we have gone... and it's a very nice program.

Sunday we went to church and had a delicious ham dinner at Tony and Marilyn's.  Throughout the week we were able to visit several different friends and family.  It was a very busy and enjoyable time.  I had mixed emotions about coming back to Quesnel. I think if we would have had our own house it wouldn't have been so bad.  I was glad to get back home to get away from the rain (John works outside and hasn't worked a day in the rain since he started in November!) It was really nice to be with family. It was nice to meet John's new neice, and getting to know Gord and Ev's kids better.  We haven't made too many friends here yet so the fellowship has been lacking.  So with all the visiting that we did, it was pretty lonely when we got back.  but now that we have gotten into the swing of things again, we are both quite busy and are ready to just sit back and relax at night.

Here's Emmy displaying a present that she got from Uncle Gord and Aunty Ev- a dressup set plus a traveling pillow

The shoes fit Caleb better than either of the girls.  I don't get why they can't make those shoes a bit bigger!

The cousins did a book exchange.  Both my girls got 3 books from the Animal Ark series about ponies and puppies!  Perfect for these animal lovers.  It's funny actually how Emmy talks.  "When we get our new house, and have animals, I can feed the horses and milk the cows and Kenna can collect the eggs."

Baby Emma.  She is sure cute.  She was 3 months old when I met her.  This is the negative thing about living away from family.  One of my nephews was 8 months old before I met him.  There is also another nephew whom I haven't met yet.  I don't know when he was born (me bad, my apologies) so I am not sure how old he is right now, but I am sure he is more than 6 months old.

This is at the RCNA church hall where JOhn's family had a get-to-gether.  We had a lovely meal of awesome appy's plus there were crafts and coloring for the kids.. We never really got to the craft part.  The kids were really good and having lots of fun together.

 There was yapping...

 and game playing..  2 of the girls actually put together a  game of Jeopardy.  We didn't get to finish it, but it was fun nonetheless.  It was guys against girls.. I can't remember who won ;)

So that was our Christmas in Chilliwack.  We got home about 5:30 on New Year's Eve.  We stopped by the Painted Chasm on our way home.  Will post pics of that next.. maybe on Thursday.