Where did the month go?

Since moving from Moncton I feel like the days and weeks are flying by and I can't stop them.  We have been very busy doing nothing if you now what I mean. We have taken some trips back to our home that we are selling. 

The kids and I spent a couple of days in Moncton with our friends and got to go apple picking with some of our friends from Mothers club.  It was so nice to see everyone again. 

We also went and spent a week with my mom, which was a lot of fun.  One of those days we headed to the aquarium to play in the touch tank and feed the seals. 

We had a very hot Thanksgiving this year.  It was so hot it felt like summer.  After our very large turkey meal with my (Katie) family we headed outside to play a game called pumpkin push.  This game was so much fun and a great way to work off some of the meal we just ate...you know to make room for dessert.

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The next day was just as warm and we had another meal with the Peterson clan.  This year I got to help out with the decorations which was fun to do.

We always have lots of friends and family to share this meal with so this year there were 30 of us.  Here is Jaelyn with her oldest cousin Emma and one of our good friends.

 But when big things aren't happening around here the kids and I have been spending the mornings outside on nature walks and enjoying the lake.

And lets not forget some photo shoots!

                  

Its hard to get a good picture of these two together but I love Jaelyn's expression in this picture.  Its like brother pay attention to me. 

Just this past week we got to travel to Halifax as a family.  It was so much fun visiting great friends and staying in a hotel with the kids.  They really loved playing on the luggage trolly. 

Because we were there with Micah's work we packed lots of food for picnics in the hotel.  Here we are eating our cereal before we headed out to explore the city.

The pool in the hotel was great.  I have never seen a kiddie pool as well as a big pool so it was very nice to have a shallow pool to take the kids in when I was buy myself.

And of course they loved swimming and jumping in.

So there is our month in a nut shell.  I will try to be better at posting so I don't have to do these large blogs.  Thanks for praying with us for our house to sell.  Hopefully soon we can be writing about some new adventures in house hunting. 

Harvest

 It has been so much fun staying with my in laws this past month.  One of the things we have really enjoyed here is being part of the community garden they have here.   It was during the month of Aug that David got his bus license and was able to bring the gardeners out in one trip!

 It was so fun to watch them get off the bus and get right to work.

Each gardener had a great harvest this year.  I am sure for the past month everyone has been going home with 1-2 bags full of fresh produce.  Here is Sera picking some of her harvest.

Sera seeded this broccoli her self and had a great harvest of them.  They were delicious.

Some of the other gardeners working hard getting their produce.

Here is a very baby carrot!  I think this one was for Jaelyn.

Everyone leaving with their bags full of produce.  Thank you God for such a great harvest.

Here is what we have been doing with some of the produce.  I learned how to make dill pickles.

 Just last week when the gardeners came they harvested the big potato plot.  There were so many potatoes that each family got to go home with 2 large bags of them.  I am sure each bag was 15-20 lb of potatoes.

Eben and Daddy even got to help out by digging up the potato plants.

Jaelyn also tried to help with the potato harvest but the ground was so uneven it was hard for her to keep her balance and she went face first into the dirt. I think she is a cute gardener!

Now our garden back in Moncton is doing great.  We have some great friends picking it for us and getting to eat our delicious tomatoes.  We did go up this past weekend to harvest our potatoes! 

Vacation

The Peterson Stewart vacation started on Friday Aug 26th as we packed up the truck and the mini van and headed down to Rockport maine for the weekend.  What an awesome time we had down there.  We arrived just in time to grab a light lunch of fish and chips of course and then head over to a mini golf place.  It was the funnest mini golf course we have been to.  I am sure with all the video footage Micah took there will be a video to come.  

After our 18 holes we headed back to our motel where we were staying to go for a dip in the pool before mama BBQ'd some red franks for supper

The next day we packed up the family for a fun morning adventure; since the wedding wasn't until later that afternoon.  We took the kids down and walked the break water. 

The guys decided that they would take care of lunch for us so this is what we ended up with.  Eben usually doesn't eat anything not even chicken nuggets (which for a Dietitian isn't a bad thing) but him and Jaelyn sure LOVED popcorn chicken.  I think it was because he loves dips and Micah happened to get 5 different ones. 

Oh and did I mention the wedding was on our anniversary.  We were celebrating 6 years.  So here we are with our wedding picture.

The wedding was in a beautiful outdoor ampitherater and the weather was just prefect for the event.  Here we are in front of the stairs that the bride made her way down.

And here is the little family

OH and this is where the planking started.  We saw some people doing it down by the harbor after the wedding so Micah decided he would start his own planking career.

Bye Bye Byng Crt

This summer has been our busiest summer so far.  It seems like we have been non stop for the past 3 months.  So when August rolled around we were looking forward to weddings and family time.  Little did we know that those times of "family time" would be spend packing, moving, fixing up our first home and moving to a new city. 

The middle of the month brought new change for us as Micah excepted a new job in Saint John with a new company.  With only 3 weeks to get our things in order we packed up and moved to Saint John. We were so blessed to be moving when all our family was home visiting and that they were willing to come and help us fix the place up to be ready for the market. 

Here is Shiloh who was on detail duty!  She did such a wonderful job making sure all floors and windows were cleaned. 

The rest of the gang gave the living room and the kitchen a fresh coat of paint.

The girls staying up really late finishing up the kitchen

So after all the hard work here is Micah and I (in our awesome matching work shirts) with the for sale sign.

And welcome to the new living room (even the fire place got a face lift; thanks to Elisabeth)

 And the white kitchen!

Its only been on the market 1 week so we are still praying that a family comes and LOVES it so much that they make us an offer so we can begin to look for a new place here in Saint John.