Pilgrims On The Way

mercredi, avril 26, 2006

I mean, really, how many does it take to start a hockey team?

Peanut #3 is...

... a boy!

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mardi, avril 25, 2006

A tribute to our first born: Zachariah

Handsome Cowboy!

Loving brother!

Macho dude!

Courageous adventurer!

Gentle wonderer!

Sleeping Miracle!

(yes, Spidey has taken the place of Thomas the Tank Engine as Zachy's fave!)

We love you Zach!

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vendredi, avril 21, 2006

Janzen Easter Gathering

We always want to have an updated family photo, but there always seems to be someone "hiding"- we've got everyone's face this time, except for Peanut #3! We'll have to update again in a few months!

The kids really enjoyed coloring easter eggs together.

They turned out so beautiful!! And then I hid them, along with FAR TOO MUCH other chocolate Easter eggs and such, for "the BIG HUNT" after Sunday lunch.

Uncle Tony found one too, and little did he know there was one hiding in his hair all along!
(silly siblings)

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mardi, avril 11, 2006

Party On!!... and on... and on....

After Ben's garden party bash, we headed over to G'ma and G'pa's for another combo party! Auntie Jerine, her boyfriend John and of course Benny all had their birthdays within a couple of weeks, so all three were celebrated together!!

Ben got some more great gifts, including new Robbies (sp?)slippers, a ball, a gift certificate and more clothes!

Still one party to go... next weekend at Oma and Opa's house!!

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---------------oOo--------------- 22 weeks/ 5 months and popping!!

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lundi, avril 10, 2006

Easter Birthday Bash!!

Saturday I had planned a birthday party for Ben at the park. As I handed out my invites, I was handed an invite to an Easter brunch for the same time and date, and for practically the exact same list of guests!! The hostess of the brunch and I decided that we could combine the two engagements, and make Ben the star of the show! It worked out well, and everyone had a good time.

This is the birthday cake I designed for Benny. It's a log cake, sitting on top of edible "dirt"

, with strawberry/chocolate ladybugs and candy worms, frogs and easter eggs hidden amongst the flowers. It was fun to invent and to make! (It was a hit at the garden party, by the way!)

The Easter brunch/Birthday party was with the two young families care groups

from our church, and was hosted in the back yard/patio of the hostesses in-laws. We had a big Easter egg hunt for all the kids, who are all age three and under. It's going to be fun seeing this group of kids (with 6 more babies on the way) grow up together. (I hope we stick around this church for years to come so that we actually can see these little ones grow up together!)

The boys were delighted with the day, and Benny was blessed with a heap of gifts: clothing, outdoor toys, balls etc. What a fun group of friends we are making!!

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vendredi, avril 07, 2006

Emotions...

I've been working on Ben's birthday cake for his party tomorrow. I love making creative cakes for my kids- photos will follow once the cake is all put together!

As I "played" around the kitchen, Zach making his own dirt cakes in the back yard, Ben napping, I felt peace, joy and contentment.

The phone rang just then. My good friend Jen was on the other end. She just had a baby girl 6 days ago: Ella Genevieve. Beautiful little one.
Her news was two-fold:
1) our other friend, Jen, who is expecting just weeks after my due date, just found out they will be having twins!! WOW! (they have one little girl already)
2) our friend, Marie, who's due date was set just weeks before mine, just found out this morning that both the twins have died. She and her husband, John, had just gone out to Vancouver Women's hospital to have some amniotic fluid drained from her uterus because she was filling up too fast, and the twins (being mono-amniotic) were swimming in the same over-full "Tank". Before the doctors could even remove some of the fluid, the two little baby girls had swam around and strangled each other with their umbilical cords. This was the couple's first pregnancy.

Jen and I cried together on the phone. It's not fare. It's terrible. Questions? No doubt.

Please pray for both these families, but especially John and Marie.
My nose is still running... must go.

Tanya

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---------------oOo--------------- Paska days are here again!!

I love to bake, and have learned alot of "tricks of the trade" from my precious Oma. Before she was admitted to the Menno Home late last year I would frequently phone her for a tip on mixing up a batch of anything Mennonite- from wereneki (perogies) to her famous peppermint cookies!!
Paska, for those of you who aren't aware, is a traditional Easter bread. I claim it as "mennonite", but I'm sure it originated somewhere back in Russia/Ukrain- my mother-in-law insists that it is indeed Ukrainian! (as she does with perogies and borscht and...) I suppose we mennonites have picked up a little of everything good along our route from Holland- back in our early formative years of culture and doctrine- through the Prussia/Russia/Ukrain days of persecution and hardship, and the mate` from Paraguay (for some of us) and on to our Canadian days of abundance and prosperity. Have you read the book "Chariots in the Smoke" by... I can't recall the author's name just now. Great historical novel on the journey of the Mennonite people.

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mardi, avril 04, 2006

My Baby turned ONE year old today!

I'm walkin', can't you see;
I'm talkin',
'bout

everything!

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lundi, avril 03, 2006

SATISFIED!!

"Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love,

that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days."

Ps. 90:14

Jesus has brought me such contentment and joy in my days.

My children are constantly delighting me with their antics and clever ways.

My husband lifts me up with his loving words and sharpens me- iron on iron- simultaneously.

Peanut #3 is kicking and growing eagerly within my womb.

My new-found friends are encouraging me and we're learning things together as young moms, eager-to-please wives and daughters of a REAL and Faithful God.

Songs, like "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning, new every morning- great is thy faithfulness O Lord, great is thy faithfulness!" spring into my mind on a regular basis.

His WORD is hidden in my heart, and new seeds of memory are being planted.

`Tis simultaneously a stretching time, and a joyous time.

The joy of the Lord surely is my strength!

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