Brianna's found her match in swimming!

New friend Mateo (3 years old) and Brianna swam freely all around the pool the other day.
They jumped from the edge at the same time and "competed" to get to the other side faster!

Trying to impress each other, already

Little swimmers in action

What a fun playdate the kids and Mommies had! We need to do it again soon!

BREAKING NEWS: BABY #2 ON THE WAY!!!

We are THRILLED to introduce Baby #2 to you all! He or she is due to meet us face to face around April 11th, 2009. We're almost 7 weeks along and looking forward to enjoying this adventure all over again!

Brianna is really excited about a little sibling and kisses him/her goodnight every night before bedtime. She's already a little Mommy, soothing crying babies and talking about babies any chance she gets. We're sure she'll make an awesome big sister!

Thank you for allowing us to take you along in this great journey of expanding our family yet again!

An Amazing Weekend ...

What an exciting time for our church!! New Pastor Chad and wife Christina Stuart made their stellar debut this past Sabbath. The church was so packed it was standing room only! We personally felt so great about having a leader back in our congregation, someone we can glean wisdom from in spite of his young age, set some goals and charge the hill for Christ together!!
The youth organized a very powerful program to wrap up their "Living from the Inside Out" Week of Prayer and we were immensely blessed overall.

Brianna enjoying her favorite lentil soup (she's just a Daddy's girl ALL around!)

Working it all out playing gymnastics with Daddy

Fun loving girl!

Christopher turned 2 on Sunday!

Christopher, Brianna's friend from Sabbath School, turned 2 with a big "Nemo" themed party (complete with LIVE fish inside fish bowl favors, beautiful detailed decorations, amazing food, great people and lots of fun things for kids to do)
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1. Brianna trying to break the pinata
2. Chris ready to blow the candles
3. The jumper was just too much fun!
4. Norma and Jay ready to say the blessing
5. Chris' turn to get all the candy
6. Group picture of all the kids
7. Chris blowing his 2 candles
8. Cheese!
9. It was over 105 degrees so Bri held that water bottle really tight all afternoon!

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.