Little Kisses:)

Zack and Atalie have a tender toddler moment:)

Aiden has arrived!

Tuesday, September 4th 2007 @ 10:01pm, a little man by the name of Aiden Kale Israelson was born. He came into the world with lightening pace (3.5hrs of labour in total), a giant little body (10lbs 1oz) and a tiny little cry. So far we can't quite peg his looks on either of us, but he looks closest to my brother, Tyler... so we think. Aiden is an Irish name meaning "fire"; and Kale is an Hawaiian name meaning "sower of truth".

The LONG long weekend...

Well, on the less-exciting scale of things that could have happened this weekend (still no baby), we tried to pass the time by doing mini-road trips around Invermere. We drove to Panorama Ski Hill on Saturday and attempted to find a little off-the-beaten-track lake for a little picnic on Sunday... which didn't turn out and we just ended up driving back up to Panorama before our stomachs got the best of us. Apparently the little Enid Lake "hide-away" was a well known campout for rednecks of all sorts and there were tents (and quads) literally pitched everywhere imagineable... enough said. Here's the first pic of Kevin holding Atalie on our 2 minute Gondola ride from the parking lot up to the Village... the rest are on a little walk we took while there: Monday was another day-in-waiting which brought no surprise... ug. So we headed off to the lot to level the interior walls so Kev could be ready to put up the trusses next weekend. My big job was to hold the level and tell Kevin which way the wall had to go in order for him to hammer it into position and nail it in place.. .... let's just say that my description of "it has to go IN more" is apparently not always clear. Ha ha. Had some laughs there. Anyway, there's a few more pics of the house below but they probably won't look any different than the last ones I posted - except the blazingly bright purple/pink and white floors:) :) :) I should mention that the purpose of painting it is to keep rain from ruining the wood, however the pink and purple wasn't planned - they were "mis-tint" cans that the hardware store had on sale. I think it's hilarious. Kevin on the other hand can't quite get used to it:) "Peek-a-boo!"

No news............... ... .... ...

..... still waiting. Thought I'd inform any interested readers that the reason we haven't called or posted any cute new baby pics is because there's nothing to report yet. Rg! 2 days have past since this child was supposed to arrive and like last time, we're waiting. I had a doctors apt. on my due date and she said everything was progressing very well and it seemed like a very acurate due date and she saw no reason for me to deliver late... well, here we sit. My last doctor said that 2 weeks early and Atalie wasn't born until 3 weeks later, so I'm not getting my hopes up. But we are praying that he/she will arrive today so that Kev can spend his free long-weekend (and with the house/work he NEVER gets free time!) with the baby and us and won't have to take time off of work (which we can't really afford). Please God!!! Just do it!!!

Still a single child...

Well this second baby is due to come into the world as of tomorow (August 30th) but seems to be just as stubborn as his/her big sister was. Atalie remains a single child at this moment in time so I thought I'd fill up a post soley with pictures of her beautiful smiling face:)

We got the power:)

So we've had an answer to prayer! As I mentioned awhile back, the town of Canal Flats recently passed a new bylaw requiring all new lots to have underground wiring installed - however they failed to mention it to any of the new residents (even in the permits they handed out) and we went ahead and paid over $2,000 to have a pole put up, knowing it would be much faster and much less expensive than trying to run underground up to our lot. They kindly informed us that we'd have to remove the pole once BC Hydro had dug the new underground and then we'd have to split that cost between the other new lot owners within our subdivision(!?!). As you can imagine there were quite a few unhappy residents, one of whom is our nextdoor neighbor to-be. We were a little irritated at the thought of our future neighbor as he happens to be one of the typical city-slickers who's moved a vacation home into the Kootenays, demanding he have exactly what he wants and precisely when he wants it, at any cost. However it turns out that his "drive" to have things his way has gotten us out of this mess:) He made such a stink at the town office that they agreed to let the lot owners come to a unanimous decision as to whether we want overhead or underground power. And of course, being practical people with new mortgages in our pockets and not wanting to pay thousands of dollars to have something done that should be covered by the town, we all chose to stay with overhead. What a relief!!!