This past weekend ...

This collage function in Picasa is AWESOME. Such a time saver! Please click anywhere on the collage to zoom in.

1. Pachi, Brianna and Mommy making homemade gnocchi ... yes, from scratch!
2. The finished product ... so yummy!
3. Daddy and Bri taking a brake from pruning the backyard. It's starting to look much better now!
4. New giraffe fixture in Amee's backyard
5. Jer & Bri enjoying cool soy drinks poolside
6. Jer LOVES a good pasta dish
7. Mommy drinking a fresh peach tea
8. Bri, una paisana de corazon
9. Pachi enjoying fun live music at the Wildflower

Celebrating friendship

The Veiss family FINALLY came back from their month and a half long Croatian vacation ... so we celebrated!

Lea and Bri ... so happy to be together again

Mermaid and Daddy in underwater action

Brianna is now trying her luck at the front crawl (not shown). Maybe we have a future Olympic swimmer in our hands!

The beautiful wedding of Laurel and Sheldon Teierle

Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Teierle
August 4, 2008
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

1. Jim LaLonde and son Alex 2. Alex, the Bible boy 3. Wedding guests 4. Our family 5. The beautiful LaLonde girls 6. Ampee & Amee, Ken & Crystal 7. Wedding ceremony 8. Now, pronounced husband and wife! 9. Ecstatic bride and groom

More family and friends ...

1. Jer and Brianna at the Capri Hotel during Sunday family brunch 2. Tio Ken & Bri playing in the swing 3. Tio Ken, a kid again 4. Family baseball game 5. Kim, Nick and Bri cheering everybody on 6. Great BBQ following game at the Sankey's 7. Nick going down the slide 8. The "kid's" table during Sunday brunch 9.Bibi at the gorgeous property where Laurel's shower was held on Saturday night

Canada Collage

Fun times with cousins and relatives, at the farm and at church
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1. Brianna at the Calgary Intl Airport 2. The cousins watching a movie 3. Brianna feeding a goat 4. Laying down new sod on the wedding site 5. Sabbath School 6. Ken & Crystal giving Missions presentation at Church 7. The Letniaks 8. More Letniak pics 9. Crystal and Landen

Oh, Canada!

We just came back from a great Canadian vacation! The main reason for our visit was the wedding of Laurel Tym and Sheldon Teierle

It was an absolute beautiful wedding and here is the beaming new couple.

Tricycle Rider

For two months now, Bri's been honing her tricycle riding skills

She can now go very fast up and down the street and she steers really well.
A little pink bike with training wheels may very well be her Christmas gift this year!

Precious girls!

Garden snapshots

Pachi and Bri

Beautiful princess

Tessa and Bri

13 years ago .... when it all started

Poem
From Jeremy to Bibi


They come like flies around a stinking carcass,
They believe all the lines about their beauty,
They fall for my fake interest,
They are blind with infatuation.
But what about you?
Am I not sweet to your taste?
Am I not the right type of honey to make you fly my way?
Why does it seem like everyone, except you, is interested in me?

If I were a flower, just your look would make me bloom
If I were paper, only a word from you would start me on fire
How can I have a passion unlimited and you hardly know I exist?
When you walk into the room I watch where you walk,
where you sit,
who you talk to
When you smile, it warms my heart like an ice cube melting in front of a furnace.

Oh! Just to talk to you is what makes me happy all day
The normal kiss on the cheek, to me, is a lifetime lived in a moment
If you look my way, my day can't go wrong
If I see you across the campus, just watching you walk
revives me like twelve hours of deep sleep.

There are no words to explain completely what you do to me
Am I the only one that feels this way?
Is there not even a spark in your heart for me?
If there is, let me be the kindling
If there's a coal, let me be the fan
If there's a small flame that you hide, let me be the crane that lifts the shield

Give me a chance to show you my passion
Give me a chance to show you I care
If you see me with another woman, please know that I'm thinking of you
If you see me laughing with someone else, please know that my laughter and joy grows from you
Everyone around me fades away when you're near me,
All the flies around me just bother me
Why can't I change myself from a carcass that draws flies,
to a flower that will draw you to my nectar?
..............
December 10, 2005
The day we started going out