12 years and counting!

Hard to believe that I've been in the Nieuwhof clan for 12 years now. We celebrated our 12th anniversary on January 13th. We had a wonderful family day together. I had been teasing Marten that I would love another trip (we had taken a cruise for our 10th anniverary). We had never been to the east end of the island so Marten suggested a road trip. It was really nice. We took the long way there. We checked out Wood Islands, then Montague, through Souris and finally arrived at the East Point Lighthouse. The kids were grateful to get out of the car but it didn't last long. It was so cold. We rushed back to the car to warm up. I did manage to get these pictures but I'm shooting myself that I didn't give the camera to Nicolle to get a shot of Marten and myself. Oh well. The sight of the windmills was impressive. The picture does NOT show how BIG they are. As we were driving home, we were driving into the sunset. Awwww... how romantic. There was a cloud that looked like a sideways heart. It had a line through it like an arrow (I think it was from a plane.) I regret not getting a picture of that as well. I teased Marten that he was so romantic to put that in the sky for our anniversary. He laughingly said that he had prayed for two hours for that one. :) We arrived back in Charlottetown at supper time so Marten took us all to East Side Mario's (notice the 'east' theme for the day, hee hee). The kids were exhausted from the 'big' trip and went to bed as soon as we got home. And even though they weren't too thrilled with being in the car all day, we really enjoyed the trip and spending time together.


Love to all, Karen

A note to my nieces: we have had our fireplace for 2 years now. It was tucked in the corner between the two couches. We bought it for extra heating because I was always cold in our livingroom. Even though the heat was nice, you could never see the fire when you were seated. I'm glad that it's in a place where we can see it now.