Family Picture 09

Hey Everybody! I absolutely love Christmas cards... preferably, the ones with family pictures on the front. I came home from school for the holidays and it was like gold, going through all of them that have been sent to us. We try to get out a Christmas card most years.. however they often come late. Apparently we like to wait, so that our 'Christmas card' is more special, becoming a, 'Happy New Year' card.. I mean, who wants to get caught in the pile of Christmas cards? haha it's a good theory. Anyhow, this year we got a good friend of mine, Kevin, to take our family picture. He's really talented in photography and has also been there to take pictures of just some fun times, proms, etc. So here are a few of the pictures! All are taken either in out in front of our home or in the backyard This whole post might be a spoiler, as this is the one you'll probably receive in the mail... Also.. this is one of my mom's favourites. It was quite impromptu.. I just jumped on Ali's back and Lydia came in! I love it too. So, there it is! I hope you're all having an amazing Christmas holiday.. I hate that we can't have one big Penner Christmas! Miss you all, Love, Emily (on behalf of the rest of the sub-Penner family!)

Something fun...

I found this picture on my mom's computer today. I thought I would include it on the blog. It made me smile...hope it does the same for YOU!! We sure miss being together with all of you! Love, Cherie

Thanksgiving in Fresno!

The Fresno Penner's continue to mulitply year after year. I think the only person we were missing was Jeremy because he is up at school at CBC for school. BUT, his girlfriend, Nicole, represented WELL on his behalf! Obviously she had tons of people to meet and she made us proud. Here is our Fresno crew! We sure missed ALL the other Penner's!

Harold and Lily LOVE to be with their grandkids! (Aubrey Rose is on the left, Christopher is on the right.) Andrea, Christoper and Jon Might be some new faces below....I wish this picture was not blurry! On the left is Nicole, Jeremy's girlfriend, in the middle is Becca (Luke's fiance...wedding is March 27th!) and we are all blessed to know Chelsey Marie! These two, at times, stole the show this Thanksgiving! Aubrey Rose and Christopher are 10 days apart. They LOVED being with each other. They followed each other around, played with each other, and constantly gave hugs to one another. It was soooo fun to watch them interact.

Christopher (on the right) is 10 days older than Aubrey Rose.They were so cute together. See what I mean they stole the show! This is Aubrey Rose showing her new dance move. This made us laugh. Last Christmas Jon sat in this chair and BROKE it! My dad finally fixed it and so we made sure Jon knew he was not allowed to sit in it again! Ha!Here is one table....starting from left...Uncle Mac and Janice, then Allie's parents, Darlene and Eric, Aaron and Christy, and then our wonderful friend Brooke (she is kind of adopted into our HP Penner family...my mom has been a mentor to her) On the left again...Andrea, Christopher and Jon, then the cute engaged couple, Luke and Becca and then, Andrea's sweet mom, Lynda is on the right The only new addition is this picture is Jadon. He just turned 1 year old last month! On the left is Neil and Charity, then Lily, on the right is David, Jadon and Arris From bottom left...Aubrey Rose (with her "cheeeeeeese" smile), Margie, Blake, Chelsey, Nicole, my dad in the back, then Jesse and Allie This is all of us hanging out, singing some worship songs, while the little kiddos entertained us with their dance moves.Some more of the circle Aubrey Rose and Christopher dancing to the Jesus songs we were singing The Harold Penner clan The 3 little ones...Aubrey Rose, Jadon and Christopher Jadon, Charity and Arris Aunt Lily, Charity and Jadon All of us girls hanging out...of and Jon's shoes since he took the picture laying down! Oh, and hopefully you made it through to the bottom of this post! Complete sidenote, not Thanksgiving at all, but definitely family related...I just wanted to keep everyone in the loop about Blake, Aubrey Rose and myself. It has already been a month or so since we found out, but at our 13 week ultrasound appointment the doctors found no heartbeat for our Baby #2. God's plans are WAY bigger and BETTER than we could ever create for ourselves. He knows what is best for all of us. The three of us are doing wonderfully and praise the Lord for having his hand upon us each step of the way. Just wanted to keep you guys in the loop of some of the Fresno happenings!

Love, Cherie and the rest of the Fresno crew!

Pictures of Sophia

Introducing Sophia Jane Moore

Hi All! There is another Penner (Moore, in this case) in the family! Scott and I had another daughter this morning at 5:10. Sophia weighs in at 8lbs 14 oz...delivered drug free! More updates and pictures to come. Love, Sheri

hellooooo family.

Hey Family! So I haven't posted anything in.. forever, so I thought I'd take the advice of that older sister of mine. ..haha - make a note of this Ali. :) So not much is happening for me.. I'm in my second year of university living with with a great group of girls. There's six of us in total, and though there's the everyday things, for the most part it's going really well. Some of the girls I'm living with are my closest friends and we have a ton of fun. This weekend Ali and I had such a good weekend. We had planned that she was coming to see me.. so she arrived Friday afternoon. We bought lots of food, bought the movie, the Proposal, and just hung out. Then on Saturday I made her a wonderful breakfast, if I do say so myself (breakfast is the only meal I have any hope of cooking decently) then we did some school work. So after that I was wondering why she wasn't staying Saturday night as well.. and she said it was because there's a worship team at her church that she really wanted to see. So I decided I wanted to see them as well so that night we both got on a bus to Waterloo, to her house. (They're only about a half hour apart). So then we went there, she took me out for dinner, and the next morning we went to church.. then we met up with a friend for lunch and hung out for the afternoon.. so much fun. So there's a very detailed rundown of our weekend. :) We only have about two weeks left of class.. even less than that. That's so crazy. Then two weeks of exams, then Christmas! I'm particularly excited for Christmas this year.. my boyfriend Luke has been in England for the past three months at Capernwray bible school.. so he's coming home. It'll be great. So I love you all and really miss you.. and would love to have an update from even more of you! em

ok. so in the spirit of sharing-the-little-things, my two most exciting tidbits this week are: 1 - we now have a fully functional upstairs bathroom! no more waking up in the night cursing as you tumble down the stairs in a hypnagogic state to pee. 2 yrs of that folks. 2 years. bri & drew came over last monday and hooked it all up for us. thanks guys!!! 2 - me & petie, and bri & trish are heading to peru in july and doing the Inca Trail!!!! love you all, joycee

Hey Family!

Thanks Jessalyn for posting! I've thought the same for myself..I'd love to post something too but there's not much to tell! I am busy with school at the moment. There's only 3 more weeks of classes left and then finals start already! So 5 courses plus choir is keeping me pretty busy! We had a concert last weekend! Too bad you guys aren't close enough that you could come! I love choirs so it's fun to continue this in university. This is my 3rd year involved with the choir. For those who don't know, I'm studying kinesiology at school. Both Jem and Josh studied this too in school ... family business guys? What do you think?

The big excitement that is coming up is not only Christmas but where I'll be this Christmas! As a lot of you know, Mike, my boyfriend, is in Auckland, New Zealand right now and has been since January (when I last saw some of you!) for teachers college. So, guess where I'll be going in December?! I leave on the 23rd and arrive on Christmas day actually ... I'll be spending Christmas Eve on a plane, crossing many timezones! I can't wait! We're going to be hiking in the south island on the Kepler Track which is supposed to be absolutely stunning (I recently bought I really nice pair of hiking boots!), we'll be in Queenstown for New Years and we're also going to Great Barrier Island off of the coast of Auckland in the north island. And of course, we'll be exploring Auckland a bit seeing all of his favourite places. So I'll be there a total of 2 weeks! I will be sure to post some pictures and give you all a report in January! Mike will be back for good (yay!) at the end of January! Next step: finding a teaching job!

So I think Jessalyn has started something great: even if you think your life has nothing new to report, there's always something that we could learn I am sure of it! Whatever the little or big things may be, please share! Anything and everything! And plus it's just great hearing from you!

Oh and I really wanted to add a picture just because so here's one nearly 2 years ago of some of us cousins! Oh how I love you all! And miss you greatly!

xo Alison

Oh man I forgot, it's Jessalyn! xo.

nothing to report!

I can't believe the last thing that was posted on the blog was Jem's wedding. I check this blog frequently and love reading what the rest of the fam is up to! I'd love to post something super exciting but there is really not too much to report. I am still working full-time at BC Women's Hospital in Vancouver in labor and delivery. It's a really cool job and learning new stuff all the time. In August, I moved out of my first apartment and moved into a better apartment with one of my good friends, Laurie. It is going really well living with her! Over the last few months, I have been to many concerts (with my roommate Laurie), Sam Roberts, Keane and just recently U2. The U2 concert was amazing and out of some random act of kindness, Laurie and I were moved into the VIP section and we were front row to see Bono. I was within arms reach of Bono! It was amazing! Other than that, there is nothing to report. So happy to hear that Cherie and Sheri are both expecting. The Penner clan is continuing to grow! Hope this finds you all well! Miss you and love you!

Hello to my lovely family!!

So as you all know, I'm a married woman now...Yay!! I thought I would post a few pictures as some of you have asked for them. I have not gotten the professional ones back yet but here are a few that friends took. I miss you guys all lots and I can't wait to hang out and have you all meet my hubby (a few of you met him when we went to Whistler...but that was a long time ago!).

Love you all!!

Jemina

Actually....we do!!!

It is never too early to have Aubrey Rose helping in the kitchen. Here are a few fun pictures of the latest joy at our home!

The rumor is true! There is a Bun in the Oven! It looks like Aubrey Rose is going to be a big sister the end of April!

Any News out there..anyone...?.

Cherie Dear....is there anything you want to tell us?

Luke got engaged!!!!

Luke proposed to Becca last night!!!! We are so excited!!!! I did a post on Blake and my blog about the excitement. Here are some more pictures...

Cheers to more "Penner family" weddings! Grandma and Grandpa, and especially Aunt Rose, would be so, so proud of both Luke and Becca. We love you guys!! Congratulations!

Introducing Maia Gabrielle Klassen!

Hi everyone. I'm sending you an update on behalf of Chris & Jewel. Jewel delivered a beautiful baby GIRL on Friday, July 24th at 9:30 pm. Being the great mom that she is, she was able to take her other children swimming at Carriage Hills until 6:00 that evening, then go home and feed the family, call the midwife and finally get into bed at 8:30 to deliver the baby at home (then she called me at 11:20 to give me the news. Talk about superwoman!). She was also kind enough to have her on a Friday night so that Scott & I could drive to Barrie for the weekend to visit. Jewel and Maia barely missed a beat and were back up at Carriage Hills with the family on Sunday morning to go swimming. Chelsea and Isabelle are very proud sisters, and love their new "doll". Congratulations Chris, Jewel, Chelsea and Isabelle!

-Sheri

Moore Update

Hi All (or maybe just Cherie at this point?). Just thought I'd update everyone on a few Moore family happenings. Scott and I had our ultrasound a few weeks ago and it looks like the family will be blessed with another GIRL!! We are all very happy about that - especially me and Maddie who are looking forward to all our future girls shopping trips. Scott, Maddie and I just returned back from a week's vacation up north. We spent most of the week at our cottage with a 2 night trip into Algonquin. For those of you who don't know, it's a big provincial park, way far up north in Ontario. We did real, true camping including a canoe, tent and portage to get to our site! Maddie's first camping trip and she was very excited (once she got over the fact that we forgot her teddy bear and had no way of getting it). Here are a few pics from the vacation. The first one is of Maddie in the tent in Algonquin (you can't have good hair in the bush, ladies) and the second one is on our boat at the cottage with her cousin Hailey. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer! -Sheri

Jeremy Graduates!!!

Last Wednesday night Jeremy graduated from Clovis West High School!!! It was so fun to be apart of the memories. We are so proud of him! Here are some of the pictures from the evening.

I realized after that I used Janice's camera for the group shot of everyone with Janice. But here is the picture I got with the four of them...Luke, Chelsey, Jeremy and Uncle Mac.

Chelsey and J are the best of buds. I love this shot!

Allie and Jeremy

Jeremy with Jesse and Aubrey Rose. It was 10 o'clock at night. Aubrey Rose was one lucky girl to still be awake! And us...Jeremy, Cherie, Blake and Aubrey Rose