60th and 40th all in one weekend!

This weekend we celebrated a life and a marriage. My father-in-law, Steve May turned 60 back on May 18th. We celebrated his b-day as well as His marriage to Phyllis this weekend.

We threw a surprise party for Steve on Saturday at Grove Park Home in Barrie that his friend, Terry Codling directs.

We had a great time, filled with lots of happy tears. We kids got together and gave them a trip to Newfoundland and Labrador where they lived for a while earlier in their marriage.

We love them, and are happy that they have had such a successful marriage.

Thanks mom and dad for your guidance, wisdom and love.......even for what I have received in the two short years that I have known you.

Thanks Dad

This is a public note to let people know of the nice thing my dad has done for us. We are heading down to Michigan for a friend's wedding...we will be staying at a B&B for three nights making it a bit of a getaway for us too. My dad has paid for the first two nights for us.

Thanks again dad, it will make our time away together even better.

Headin' to Centreville, MI

This weekend my lovely wife and I are heading to her friend's (I guess she would be my friend too) wedding. It is kind of out of town.......so I'm expecting it to be really nice, and in a quiet area.

Heather and I are taking advantage of this time away. We are booked into the Mendon Country Inn where Stephanie and Craig are having their rehearsal dinner. It looks like a really nice place. We are pretty excited about the time away, and the times that we will have, just the 2 of us.

By the way, if anyone reading this has a recommendation on what is the best way to cross over to Michigan...please let me know. I got directions online, and because of the area in MI where we are heading, the Sarnia and Windsor crossing are almost the same distance to drive. So, which one is better for scenery, or road conditions, etc. I know the roads are bad in Detroit, so maybe we won't go that way.

ALGONQUIN...you've gotta try it!

So, here are of the few shots we took on our trip. We had a really great time...and we even kinda got spoiled with some nice weather. I think the May's would even admit it. Heather always tells me that there is a May curse or something...when they go camping it's not usually very good weather. Last year we had a couple of really bad days, and maybe only one good day, and then a couple of not bad days. This year we had three days of great weather.

The weather, I must admit made this trip easier on me than last year...and I guess that we didn't do as much moving as last year.


Although this year we did a
3200m portage...last year our largest was 2345m. The biggest one this year was listed on the Park map as 2800m, but we thought it seemed longer than that...sure enough in a book about a lady who had been traveling the Park for 70 some years said that it was actually 3200m...so we felt better after having read that.






Anyway, it was such a great time...but at the end it was good to get home and start recovering. I am already looking forward to next year. I don't think I'm ready for more than one of those trips per year yet.

Thanks to the rest of the people who were along with us. It was a really great week. Thanks to our Lord for his beautiful creation that we enjoyed first hand for 6 days.......we really do take it for granted I think.

Nice House!!!!!

Well, we just got back, and we didn't take any pictures......but you've got to believe me....we saw a great house tonight. It has been completely re-done inside and out. New siding and roof on the outside, and new everything on the inside, even an addition on the back.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pray with us and for us. We really liked it, but if it is not for us it won't be there when we are ready. The guy wants to sell it by the end of the month, and will pay the mortgage for June and July if it sells by the end of may, so then we would start paying in Aug, which would work because we have already paid our last month at our current location, so we would have money to start paying. We are also looking into a no down payment mortgage, which would help us even more to get started. Please just pray with us and for us.

Thanks a lot everyone!

Yippie.........I can go to church Sunday Mornings again.........it's been so long.

Yes, the title is true. I got a posting I applied for at work. I will be going from the perishable department ( 32F - 0C) into the freezer (0F - -18C) and I will have sun-mon off. I am so excited because for the first time in 5 years (except when I was recovering from my arm surgery) I will be able to attend morning church, and Sunday school class.

This will give heather and I a real opportunity to find a good church and get involved in it.

Thank you Lord!