Hobenshield

2010-03-19T16:05:00.001-07:00

Kate getting ready for her first trip to the pool! She had a blast!

2010-03-17T13:29:00.001-07:00

Kate helping dad make pizza dough!

2010-02-07T21:14:00.002-08:00

A little bit of what we have been up to lately. Bought a cross country ski package for the chariot stroller and tried it out, works awesome! Went on our first run of the year outside with both of us, Kate in the chariot and both dogs, was great!

2009-12-26T17:59:00.002-08:00

Poor Kate, we stuffed her in her stocking! She didn't seem to mind too much though, once she was in she just fell asleep...

2009-12-23T17:42:00.001-08:00

Kate sunning herself... and with Grandma St.

2009-12-23T17:33:00.002-08:00

Our best Christmas present yet!

Hanging in the crib... kinda blends in.
Buddy and Briela check her out, Buddy brought her his bone for her to throw and Briela sniffed her a few times and then just wanted to be pet!

2009-12-23T17:24:00.001-08:00

last ones at the hospital, finally home!

2009-12-23T17:16:00.001-08:00

Kate with "Uncle" Conrad and having her first bath...

2009-12-23T17:09:00.000-08:00

More of Kate...

2009-12-23T16:51:00.002-08:00

Kate Dorothy Hobenshield born December 21st at 659pm. Weighing 6lbs 4oz, 19 3/4 inches long.

2009-12-19T11:16:00.000-08:00

Christmas Tree decorating!

2009-12-19T11:06:00.002-08:00

A few more pictures from around the house, Hal baking and cooking with Conrad, Buddy smiling! he looks mean but he is just excited to have his picture taken!

Conrad and Hal working on the garage... Hal is having too much fun!

2009-12-19T10:52:00.001-08:00

A few more at 36 weeks then a couple from the hospital at 37 weeks! By the end of my time there I just hooked myself up to the monitor every few hours!

2009-12-19T10:44:00.000-08:00

Some pictures a lady from our church took a few weeks ago.... 36 weeks.

2009-11-11T16:16:00.001-08:00

0911

Just a couple more to satisfy your Hobies fix

2009-11-05T16:15:00.002-08:00

Ok Ok I know we haven't posted in a very long time (ok a very very long time) but I thought it was finally time to pull my finger out. Here is a short slide show of what has gone on over the past few months, I hope you enjoy. Ryan

0910

2009-07-30T00:22:00.004-07:00

2009-07-18T14:06:00.008-07:00

The missing pictures - I really hate that programm, I had them all in and after I put the text in some of the pics disappeared. Very frustrating! I have been working on that post for almost 3 hours...

2009-07-18T13:11:00.015-07:00

Opa and Amy feeding the fish in the backyard pond. Amy loves that job - rain or shine!

She also loves to play soccer - I can see some real talent (hits the ball with an amazing power).

Another favourite job is watering the plants, again rain or shine ;-) here with Jana

Mae with Maria's bear that she takes places (well, most of the time it stays in bed because Mae forgets it)

My godchild Nadine finished school this year and I was able to go to her prom night (makes you feel quite old)

Night out with Carmie and Susie feels like the good old times...

Mae and Amy at the Brenzpark (a huge area with flowers, greens and play areas for the kids)

Getting around these days in my parents Golf Plus - not sure where the Plus is as I feel like a sardine everytime. Think thin Meli!!! ;-)

again Brenzpark this time with my brothers little one Jana

my brother Marki

my sister in law Dani looking as pregnant as she is - a few more days to go...

Special activity at school (sweating instead of sitting) - incredible hot day, poor kids really were sweating...

Mae is so lucky that she is able to be a part of her old school class again.

Those 2 girls are sooo cute, wish you all could be here with us.

Jana and Amy always have a blast playing with each other. Barely notice the age difference of 1.5years.

Sunday trip to the castle. Mae loves castles and all the stories that go with them...here Schloss Hellenstein, Heidenheim

Canonball Mae

Cuties...

Nice view of Heidenheim
Ryan, notice the empty space where Ploucquet was? It's huge and looks unreal...

Amy and Knut the neighbors dog

Trip with Josefine,
Mark and our
girls to the
Charlotten-
hoehle (cave).

The kids had
such a blast with the water settings there.

Look how sturdy little Amy is ;-)

At Taddy's place with her little girl Finnia (the big kids Mae and Jona hit it off right from the start and didn't leave his room - glad she is only 8)

Took the bus past Wednesday and was on the phone when I got in. Driver asked me to turn it off and pointed to the sign - I was shocked!! How pathetic is that??

Kinderfest at Mae's school (like a carnival). Motto was 4 elements, Mae's class got 'earth' so they decided to dress up as vegetables.
Can you guess what Mae is?

I just loved the boy dressed as a salad!

They march through the middle of Steinheim in a parade.

Mae's fantastic teacher Frau Hensolt. She is unbelievable nice!

Girl with ponytails is Mae's good friend Lea (lives across the street from my parents). They play together all the time.

2nd and 4th grades had to do a dance

2009-05-20T12:08:00.003-07:00

Trying to keep up to date with the pictures now. Here is a slide show from a few outings. The first are from a trip to a petting zoo in North Vancouver and the rest are from our camping trip to Deception Pass and San Juan Island off the Coast of Northern Washington State. AWSOME viewing of Orca's from the light house at Lime Kiln park on San Juan Island. The grey bump is the back of a grey whale that visited the beach at Deception Pass State park.

2009-05-05T22:20:00.000-07:00

Ok Carmi,

You win! here are a bunch of new pics!

2009-03-15T14:24:00.002-07:00

2009-01-02T14:05:00.002-08:00

Here is a bit of a slide show of the New Years Eve party antics

2008-12-26T12:32:00.002-08:00

i guess i was to busy to notice the we didnt take ant pics of the finished tree. Taely had the best time with all the stuff that goes on at this time of year. Theres a few pics i did with the pastels Hal got me. thank you Hal its what i needed :)

luv you all very much! xoxoxoxo

2008-12-26T12:26:00.000-08:00

2008-12-26T12:04:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas photos

2008-12-26T12:04:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas photos

2008-12-22T17:03:00.001-08:00

So Mel decided to go for a Drive today and had a fun time parking at Earl & Tammy's!!

Good fun for the whole family!

Thanks for the pics Tammy (I think).

Merry Christmas!!

2008-12-19T13:29:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone! A very merry Christmas. Rachel (and Evan) has had a little baby boy yesterday and that is super exciting. WELCOM TO THE WORLD Declan!! Nice work, Just in time for Christmas!!

2008-12-12T17:15:00.005-08:00

So I didn't get any complaints about doing it last time so here I am again. I have put in a little slide show of what has happened so far this Dec. Mae had her very first ringette game, Nikolaus came to town on the evening of the 5th and Mae played a whole tournament on the weekend of the 7th & 8th. That was exhausting!

2008-11-19T12:11:00.003-08:00

This is a test: Click here to see pictures from Mel's B.day. Michaels bday and some other random shots of Mae & Amy

2008-11-14T12:16:00.000-08:00

Just a quick picture of the kids (Mae, Lynn, Nele, Ben & Amy) in the great fall colours

2008-10-20T22:41:00.011-07:00

Amy had a great laugh on the way home the other day:

Helmut, Sorry you missed out on the fish coming up Hyde Creek. The bears are enjoying it and the locals too.

Mae and Amy are really enjoying each other.

See, they cuddle and laugh together.

with Halloween just around the corner, we got into our pumpkin chopping and created this beauty.

Over Thanksgiving we went out to Hope, and Mae did her first flower arrangement. Amy decided to crawl all over Mel as well.

Michael came over to play with Amy, she was a bit sceptical. Amy was powering around the house and found Mel's tampon box. Good fun.

Mae is really enjoying ringette. It is great to see her having so much fun. She came home all sweaty last weekend with a great big grin on her face. Loved it. Then we took this mug shot of Amy.

The other day we went to Andy and Silke's for a few drinks and Raglette. It was very yummy and funny.

Rosi and Helmut really enjoyed our trip to Vancouver Island. We saw lots of beautiful places and Buchart Garden's is definetly one of those.

A neat little place along the way is close to Cowichan Bay. It is a little shopping area with buildings from Duncan's old China town.

The Ferry is particularly stunning, a great sunrise and a cute little light house along the route.

Mae made a new friend in Victoria. He wasn't very responsive though.

2008-10-05T20:43:00.002-07:00

Kinuseo Falls, Tumbler Ridge. These falls are taller than Niagra Falls, they are 60 metres tall. They are pretty cool, you can see all the spots on the camera from the water droplets, there was a constant mist from the falls. There is so much to see around Tumbler Ridge a person could spend days there hiking around and still not see everything.
Kinuseo Falls again, we had to basically scramble down the side to get down to the bottom. Much easier to get down than back up!
Looking down river from the top of the falls, people rent jet boats from Tumbler and come up the river, the best view of the falls is from the fork in the river which you need a boat to get to.
This was another fall that we walked to called Burbor Falls, it is in between Tumbler and Kinuseo Falls, it was not an advertised trail at all but we saw it in our book so we thought we would check it out, it was quite nice but we saw fresh bear poop right before we got there and we did not have the dogs with us and there were no other people for miles around so we didn't stay long! Hal grabbed this big stick to defend us!! I figured sing loud and get back to the car!

2008-10-05T20:22:00.002-07:00

This is along the Sukunka forestry Road that we drove along to see the falls.
Here is a nice bear that we saw while driving on the forestry road, he didn't seem to care about us he just kept sauntering along...
This was two weekends ago on our trip to Tumbler Ridge (an hour from Dawson Creek).
Quality Falls on the way to Tumbler from Dawson, beautiful falls, I could have spent all day there, it was about a 1km hike off the highway, and on a beautiful fall day.
Hal looking down stream from the falls, there are another set of falls just downstream.

2008-10-05T20:10:00.002-07:00

Just thought I would put some pictures on here showing a little bit of the local things we have been doing. These are of our trip to Sukunka Falls towards Chetwynd. We went there early this summer, they are down a forestry road, you hike down a little path in the bush to find them, it was pretty neat.
Of course the dogs came, Buddy and Briela! They had loads of fun.
This is at the very bottom of the series of the falls.

This was another fall on the same forestry road, it is called hole in the wall falls?? the water comes out of a hole at the bottom of the big rock face that you can see in the picture, I guess it is a hole in the wall! They weren't too creative with the name!

2008-09-20T19:53:00.005-07:00

Mae's first ringette practice with her own gear. Pretty good stuff. Here she is going in on goal for her first goal ever! Then getting a briefing from the coach.
They all had a go at shooting the ring, Bounce it off the wall and back again, repeat.

So we finally got around to paining the play house last weekend. Barn Red with white highlights. Pretty cute! Now its pouring rain and I think we can expect it to remain this way for the next couple of weeks. Mae & Maria had a go at selling Lemonade last Sunday. It was pretty cute. $0.50 the glass. I think they earned about $2.00 each.

Went for a walk the other day as well. Great day, sunny etc. Super shot of the golden ear mountains.

Mae and Amy sharing the love in the morning. Amy loves her big sister.

Amy is a super crawler, and now even walker! She took a few steps on Thursday! Neither Mel or I got to see her first steps. She was at Silke's while we were at work. Anyway, she isn't doing it much on her own yet so I don't expect her to be a walking terror for another couple of weeks yet.

Amy loves chilling out in her Nemo couch and really enjoys it when Mom plays with her when she's in the swing.

2008-09-10T11:37:00.002-07:00

Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip out to Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia and PEI.

Mom and Hal on one of our stops on the Cabot Trail.
All of us on the Cabot Trail.

Grandpa, dad and Hal in Shubenacadie where the Moore's are from.

2008-09-10T11:28:00.002-07:00

Rita McNeil's Tea house, we stopped for tea and dessert, it was really nice. Mom and Dad were not allowed to say that they had coffee in their tea pots!

Inside Louisbourg, the fortress of the northeast corner of Cape Breton.

Louisbourg from across the bay.

2008-09-10T11:19:00.002-07:00

Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa walking under confederation bridge holding hands...

Confederation bridge again, you can see it continuing in the distance.

Us posing by the cow from Cows ice cream in Charlottetown, voted Canada's best ice cream by Reader's Digest, and it was very good ice cream, we had some almost everyday. It started in PEI.

Dad trying to make the lobster grab mom's bum!
Us at Point Prim the oldest lighthouse in PEI.

2008-09-10T11:11:00.002-07:00

All of us aboard the Bluenose 2. This wooden building is Port Royal, it was the oldest settlement in Canada on the west side of Nova Scotia.

Dad found a backhoe in Annapolis Royal, made him feel like he was back at work.
Mom and Dad overlooking Minas Basin on the west side of Nova Scotia.

Confederation Bridge connecting New Brunswick to PEI.

2008-09-10T11:03:00.002-07:00

Mom, Dad and Hal having a drink in Alexander Keith's Brewery. Mom and Dad at Peggy's Cove.

Peggy's Cove, it was very beautiful, quaint little town, but there were a lot of people, especially by the lighthouse. The last picture is the Bluenose 2 in the harbor at Lunenburg.

2008-09-10T08:39:00.002-07:00

All of us by Halifax Harbor.
Hal and dad with a guy from the citadel in Halifax.

Enjoying the deck off Grandma and Grandpa's room in Fisherman's cove outside of Halifax. The other picture is Fishermans cove, our bed and breakfast was the three storey brown building halfway up on the right.
The Harbour Hopper, we took a tour on it, it goes on land and in the water, it was pretty neat.

2008-09-10T08:29:00.002-07:00

So here are some of our pictures from our trip to Nova Scotia and PEI with Grandma and Grandpa Hobenshield and Mom and Dad. The first one is with Hal and Theodore 2 the tugboat, Hal was very excited to see him! Then it is us overlooking part of the Halifax harbor.

Hal and I goofing around with the cannon, we aren't actually in the cannon, just some moving around with the camera to make it look like we were...

2008-08-07T22:51:00.008-07:00

So, I've heard tell that there are some people complaining about us not having put pictures up in a long time . . . well here you are. I was going to put commentary with everything but because there has been so much to do around the house lately and so many guests. . . you get the crappy end of the stick.

Amy is crawling all over now and eating whatever she can get her hands on, yes even cars.

She is a big lover of grass and being outside. That is where she has lots of fun. How great is the shot of my girls!

Here is a beautiful little Mae and an odd looking grandpa! When grandpa and grandma left . . . we all needed to have a nap!

Mae is getting to be quite the tree climber. Hal and Lisa visited some time in July and we spent some time goofing around at Earls.

Earl did his very best superman impression and the Mae tried on her favorite hat.

Chris - from Peri and the infamouse "Captain Morgan"

Just like with training horses, part of Amy's training routine is water walking! And then mountain . . oops I mean uncle Hal climbing.

Taely really loved looking at the geese and Mae enjoyed playing with the sea stars

We had a bunch of people over for Earl's birthday, including Earl and Taely.

I got to practice my weight lifting by trucking Mae and Taely around. Here is a shot of most of the people who came to Earl's b-day party. Amy, Lisa, Petra and Avary are missing though.

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow that 4 right off the cake.

Hal helps Avary show her many faces.

Mel, Lisa, Hal and the kids got lots of time at the park when Hal & Lisa came down.

Auntie and Uncle got lots of time to play.

Amy even showed everyone how good she can crawl and climb up.
Now there's a cute mom and baby photo to finish off the posting.

2008-06-24T23:08:00.004-07:00

Ok sorry to inundate you with pictures and stuff but we completely destroyed our back yard and thought that we would share that with everyone. I just put seed on it tonight so hopefully by the time we get back from the long weekend we should have a good start to a brand new lawn.

This is what a decent garden looks like before I get my hands on it. Well at least this is what the front yard looks like.

Now this is what the back yard looks like after I have had 3 days to beat the crap out of it!!

Notice the cedar poles on the slab? they used to be on the right hand side where that shovel is laying. Now they and their stumps are GONE!!

So not all of the front has survived the onslaught, The left hand side of the yard looks like this. The otherside is over grown but at least it is still alive. I think the grass there should be counting its lucky stars that I didn't have time to do the entire yard with that tiller!

2008-06-19T23:31:00.006-07:00

Here are some pictures of Amy & Mae from the past little while:

Soren and Fiona managed to score us some VIP tickets to Playland. Mae and Lynn had a great time. They were exhausted by the end of it though!

A thousand thanks to you two!!

This is Amy's first real long stretch of crawling. And her sister showing the love with the bunny ears.

2008-06-09T23:18:00.000-07:00

Our house in Dawson Creek...

2008-06-09T22:55:00.001-07:00

Here is the living room upstairs, bathroom, our spare room (where we are staying right now) and the master bedroom with just a mattress on the floor because our bedroom set is still in Slave Lake, and another picture looking off our deck.

2008-06-09T22:49:00.001-07:00

This is a picture walking around the house, a picture of our front entrance/boot room, and our living room/dining room.

2008-06-09T22:41:00.002-07:00

Here are more of the kitchen, the office and the view off the deck. Our backyard faces south-southwest so we get some nice sunsets. The other picture is from the front of the house on the one side.

2008-06-09T22:23:00.002-07:00

So this is the kitchen, and then the basement, we have a wood burning stove, and a door that leads outside under the deck, there is one bathroom and one bedroom downstairs, a laundry room and a storage room (which we just finished painting and putting up the shelves in!) The people that lived here before us had some nice crayon pictures on some of the walls... it's amazing how much a coat of paint helps! We will have most of our stuff in Slave Lake so we don't spend too much time in the basement yet.

2008-06-09T22:01:00.002-07:00

So finally some pictures of our house, I added a few of one of our bike trips up bear mountain, Buddy with his superman that he can't live without, and our golf team last saturday for the hospital fundraiser (our fourth member backed out at the last moment, but we had a blast).

2008-06-01T21:15:00.002-07:00

Taely the super star! Taely hanging out!!

This is Taely's first cousin on Tammy's side. She loves him so much.

2008-05-28T22:02:00.001-07:00

The Hobenshield Family Campout, May long weekend 2008! Green Lake, B.C.

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The ball tournament... ended up playing with spotlights to finish it... I wont say who won.... but Dad Hobs didn't!

2008-05-28T21:37:00.002-07:00

More camping pics, had lots of fun canoeing. Taely enjoyed her first experience with Smores!

2008-05-28T21:05:00.002-07:00

Hal protecting Mae from Mikey shaking!

Camping at Green Lake with the family... lots of fun!!

2008-05-12T21:06:00.006-07:00

So first things first. I was digging through the digital camera when this little Gem came out. Two old friends. Golden!

Now for the newer stuff. Mel has a way with Amy. Just to make her giggle and giggle. Laughing babies are just simply awsome! Here are two video's of Amy laughing her guts out while Mel zerbert's her legs and kisses her belly.

Amy is growing up to be a cutie just like her big sister. She crawls around and you get the best little grins out of her. She went through a whole phase where she would stick her toung out everytime she started to giggle. It was awsome. Now she just simple goes crazy. It is really cool. Now she is slowely starting to figure out how to move around. Amy gets up on all 4's and kind of wobbles back and forth. Soon she'll be crawling all over the place.

Now all that beauty has to come from somewhere, because lord knows that it didn't come from me!

2008-04-19T21:59:00.002-07:00

We blew up 100 balloons for Taey's birthday. Put them all in the living room and let her run around and have fun! She had a lot of fun that day. She knows that she is 2 and can count up to, 2, may be three by herself.Taely is almost up to our hips. She is so Tall.We had all her friends over. Crazy Day!! Taely and Lucas popped all the balloons when every one left. Bye for now Earl Tammy and Taely

2008-04-19T21:52:00.001-07:00

Taely and Dad are being silly with their bandanas. Taely in her own little bed.Taely Opening up presents.

2008-04-19T21:40:00.001-07:00

We are out at Auntie and Uncles house. For Uncles Birthday!! We had lots of fun!!!!

2008-04-18T21:56:00.000-07:00

2008-03-30T23:23:00.003-07:00

Hows that for a big sister! Amy's first go at carrots.

Special comedy / drama by Mae, Maria and Lynn

Mae shows off how good she can ride her new bike.

2008-03-26T23:40:00.000-07:00

2008-03-26T23:22:00.002-07:00

This is Taely's best friend Lucas!!
They were running from the couch to a big pile of pillows at the other end.
Taely had these balloons in her shirt and was bouncing her head off of them when she lands on the pillows. It was funny!! We met a swan tonight on our walk. It hissed like a cat at Haun. She was trying to chase it.

Taely and dad are lifting big logs to throw in the river. Makes the dog go crazy and Taely thinks its funny!

2008-03-24T11:19:00.006-07:00

Here are our sweeties back together again. It is the end of Easter break for Mae, now she gets to play with her sister and go for rides on her brand new bike that the easter bunny brought!

Amy descovers her toung

Here is Daddy the Jungle Gym

Amy and Mae pose for the camera!

Mae decides that Amy needs a lift. Mae went 4-wheeler driving with grandpa and came back looking like this! It took 2 washes at Grandma's place and one more at home to get that jacket clean!

Grandpa gives Mae her first driving lesson. Your mistake grandpa. Then farmer Mae shows up.

Mae decides to show us her dancing moves!

2008-03-21T22:31:00.002-07:00

Amy discovers her feet. Then tries to eat them!

2008-03-19T23:32:00.002-07:00

Taely found the Glaxal Base while mom and dad where in the kitchen.She thought she needed a little cream.
We thought she had enough.
Melly with baby Amy. Taely with her baby.
All done.

2008-03-12T14:12:00.002-07:00

Taely likes to get into mom's boots. She's so cute. We love her so much.
Taely is a super model. I asked her to put her leg up like that and she leans over and poses.
This is at the house Earl was useing the hammer.

2008-03-12T14:03:00.003-07:00

Earl has been working under a house with a hammer for the past few days. Looks tough to me.
This was Taely's first gymnastics class. She really enjoys the trampoline. We are starting to go every tuesday's in the morning. So Taely gets up early and we take the bus down town New West.

2008-03-11T23:43:00.001-07:00

We had a good visit with Mags.
And Taely got stuck in a bird cage.
These are some of the things Earl has been up to. Looks neat. Same job site for the past 4 years. They are building high end houses in the rock face, over in Horseshoe bay.

2008-02-22T12:37:00.001-08:00

2008-02-20T19:31:00.001-08:00

We are just out for a walk.

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2008-02-20T19:23:00.001-08:00

We miss our Beetles. He was everyones best friend.

2008-02-18T09:57:00.002-08:00

Hello Every one from Tammy and Taely!!!

We haven't showed our faces around here in a while. We are eatting breakfast. Having

Blackberry pancakes!! mmmm..... We love you all! and peace to you!

2008-02-10T23:21:00.000-08:00

Here is one yummy mummy dressed in a dirndl. I like, I like a lot.

2008-02-08T20:41:00.000-08:00

Our little working girl.

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Taely likes being with daddy when he gets home. Earl let her operate the hoe. Taely was actually doing quite well figured it out faster then some!! Loves her dad no matter how dirty he gets.
Our animal Family.

Taely Likes music and being nude!!!

She's so cute!!

2008-02-05T14:14:00.000-08:00

Did a lot and saw a lot those past 3 weeks while my mum was here.

Here is a short picture overview:

This is the view from our house - on clear days which are pretty rare in rainy Vancouver but my mum was lucky. We had a full week of beautiful sunny winter weather and incredible views.

My mum on her holidays - working like a mad woman. Repainting the whole upstairs of the house. Its all one colour now, a friendly fresh light yellow.
The "sun room" as we call this room now got new colour as well, bright yellow to underline that sun room feeling. And our house in snow - also pretty rare in Vancouver. We had one night of constant snow fall and in the morning Vancouver was out of order. No public transport worked, schools were closed for the day...unreal, I couldnt believe it!

Below is our backyard covered in snow and the local swimming pool where Mae also takes lessons 2x a week.

Mae and Amy having a bath together and Amy just looking really cute

Last sunday we went sledding on Burnaby mountain. Another beautiful sunny day with incredible views as you can see!

The week before we made a trip to Seattle with my mum - only a 2 hour drive away from Vancouver. Have to cross the US border though and go through immigration as a german citizen. which costs us another 20min and a couple US-dollar but it was definitly worth it. Even though we went on a rainy day we had lots of fun and could only imagine how spectacular it must be on a sunny day.

The last couple pictures for today were from a day trip with my mum. We went to Stanley Park in Vancouver and Lynn Valley (Suspension Bridge) in North Vancouver.

And this "little" boy was our last dinner with my mum. Salmon! Awesome! Uh, just remembered - it was actually a girl (Ryan cleaned it and showed us all those little fish eggs inside)

2008-01-20T20:48:00.000-08:00

So Carmi, you wanted to know what was going on and had asked for a few pictures so here we go. I've got lots. First Oma came and we had to make sure that she got lots of time with Amy and Mae. Amy makes it easy. She is much like you! We rarely hear from her during the day but once the sun goes down! LOOK OUT!

The next step for Oma was to let her see a bit of the beauty that Vancouver has to offer. Up behind where we live is a beautiful lake which I've heard is a great place to swim. I am quite certain that it is only a summer kind of place where one would like to swim. If you are looking to freeze to death this time of year. It would be a good place to start!

So the next port of call was Gastown which is the origional

"downtown" of Vancouver. It is a really cute area with lots of neat shops and cute streets. A bit of cobblestone to keep you interested and even a cool steam clock!

This young seagull hasn't even lost his baby

feathers and already he is bigger than Mae's head! Pretty cool.

So after a big day out looking at some of the beautiful things that Vancouver has to offer, we had Earl, Tammy, Taely and Holly over for dinner. Holly got to play in the basement and Taely, Mae and Amy got to play on me! Rosi made an awsome meal and we all had a great laugh at Taely kicking Mae's butt in a pillowfight!

Mel was looking particularly good so I thought it might not be a bad idea to take a picture. It took a couple of goes to get her and Amy to play along but in the end I managed to get a good one out of it. It's odd how beautiful people often hide from the camera.

So after that awsome meal and a somewhat unstable sleep, we dragged ourselves out of the house at 10.30h and headed for Grouse Mountain. This is one of the really special things about Vancouver. You can get from downtown to the top of a skihill in less than half an hour. We were a bit slow out of the blocks so there were a few other people who were thinking the same thing and we didn't actually manage to get to the top until around 11.30h or so but still thats not a bad turnout! Amy must not of liked it quite as much as the rest of us though. She needed to be changed 3 times and managed to soil 2 full undershirts (bodies). While she was busy doing that Mae and I got some skating in.

As many people know, Mae's attention span isn't that great.

So it didn't take her long to lose interest in the cold and snow at the top of the mountain. I'm sure if we'd been able to arrange another little kid or two for her to play with that would have changed, but anyway. She decided it was time to go. Mel and I wanted to show Rosi a few other parts of the city anyway so off we went. Back down the gondola and off.

Along the way we swang past the Capilano Dam where we got a great view of the mountains behind it. For a better look at the sunset we headed down to Lions Bay where the Ferries head over to Vancouver Island and other beautiful destinations.

By the time we got home Amy was in dire need of a bath. She had messed herself up to the armpits twice. So Oma and Mel took the time to wash her up and the smile on her face shows how happy she was with that!

So, thats it for now. I'm sure there will be lots more pictures this week as Oma and Mel have decided to repaint the whole upstairs of the house! Good luck girls. I'm glad I'm spending the week on the phone and getting rewarded for it.

Ryan, Mel, Mae & Amy

2008-01-20T19:56:00.000-08:00

Found this picture of Mae from back in September 2002 while I was fixing Mels computer. Pretty cool. Has to be one of my favorite shots of the little rat.

2008-01-15T14:18:00.000-08:00

So here comes the bi-weekly picture posting. Lots going on. Mel has started working for Tim Hortons around the corner from our place, Amy has taken on a job making mustard and Mae is really enjoying her school. Here are some pictures to keep you entertained for a while.

2008-01-03T22:29:00.000-08:00

Not a lot of time left today after uploading all of these pictures but these are the fun people that we spent Christmas and the new year with.

And this is what our house now looks like that it has had the priviledge of a womans touch.

Sorry but with Amy, setting up the house and everything else there isn't much time for anything but a blast like this. All our love

Mel, Ryan, Mae and Amy

2007-11-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

So we showed up and Meli looked like this:

then about 20 minutes later it was like this.

I snuggled with Amy Grace Hobenshield at 20.05h on the 12th of November, 2007!! She is 53cm long and 3.420kgs. Blue eyes and blonde hair. Beautiful baby girl. Mel was an absolute trooper. She is in great shape now and is simply staying in hospital to relax and have some down time.

This is the proud father
And the proud big sister.

We'll put more up pitures in a little while.

All out love.

Ryan

And one very happy family.

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Rest of basement

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Back 1 back 2

Front entry

Kitchen Deck

2007-10-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

Our little Princess is getting so big. Taely got some dress-up clothes from Papa Reg and loves to play Princess Taely. She likes horses and hats too! Taely has become an artist. Masters of Fine Finger Paints, Degree from University of Messy Kitchen Table.

2007-10-19T00:25:00.000-07:00

We went down to the river where the water is, you see and we saw a nice big red tree waving me.

Daddy and Mommy and me!!

You see? You see!! Me and Papa too!!

2007-10-17T07:16:00.001-07:00

Just remembered a couple more pics on the digi cam. Mae and myself making our first Halloween pumpkin of the year. With another favorite buddy of hers Marc climbing rocks and my huge belly. It cant get much bigger than that! Baby has 3kg already and still another 3 weeks to go...

2007-10-17T05:09:00.000-07:00

Another short update from the Hobenshield part in Germany. Crazy how time flies by - only another 3 weeks until the baby is due...we have been keeping ourselves busy with different activities and meeting friends and family. Comments to the pics: little strawberry blond girl is Mae's cousin Jana, on the one pic Mae got a hold of her hair and styled it. The little boy eating donuts with Mae is her boyfriend Elisha, those two just love each other. Of course its kite-weather in Germany and my dad was the lucky one to do the running ;-) the tiger face paint Mae got on a local gathering and last but not least you can see my mum with an image of my belly. We went to the local hospital and my mum put casting material on my upper body which went hard after a while. We then were able to put some colour on it. I am not quite as wrinkled in real though as the bust gives the impression ;-)

2007-10-06T13:37:00.000-07:00

This is the machine I (Earl) run. The Tool is a Hydraulic Hammer, on a 320 c-lu Cat. The safety dude took the pictures. Coming outta the hole at 17th and Cambie in Vancouver. I have been working on the RAV line for the last Four and a half months.

2007-09-24T13:37:00.000-07:00

A couple more, Hal wakeboarding a few weeks ago...

hope everyone is doing well, love from the Northern

Alberta Hobenshields!!

2007-09-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

Some late summer/fall pics... It has been beautiful here lately, the leaves are starting to change but it has been nice and sunny. The first picture was taken yesterday off the deck, then me and my mom, Buddy and Briela lounging around... Hal cutting some firewood and last... a nice bear about 1/2km from our house... we have seen probably 8 in the last week, five in one day! glad it wasn't when I was out for a run!!

2007-09-12T07:21:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody,
Mae's 1st day of school in Steinheim/Germany. Most interesting part of the day was her Schultuete (the orange thing she is holding) . Thats all she cared about on that first day, couldnt even remember the name of the boy next to her. But have a look at the pics: In the backyard of my parents place with her Kangeroo Schultuete, my parents, myself, Dani (my sister in law) and Jana, next on the way to school, after church, in the school and classroom and finally opening her Schultuete. Love Meli&Mae