Rear-Ended

Well, the protege seems to be a write off. We'll find out in a few days I'm sure but I (Chris) got into an accident today. I was driving when a suv beside me started to brake for a dog and it bolted in front of me (the dog that is) and I braked (gut reaction). The suv behind me said that they were looking at the suv beside me braking, and she hit me.....pretty hard. I'm not sure if she even hit her brakes so she was going pretty well near 80km/hr. The mazda has been good to us and the amazing thing was that the suv had more damage then we did, which was a good thing because Kaitlyn was in the back seat and she was unharmed, scared, but unharmed. I've got a bit of whiplash and my back is sore. Thankfully, I know a chiropractor! Anyway, hopefully we'll get a decent settlement for the car and we'll be able to buy a nice used car to replace this one. I think that is all for now.

Pictures: Marissa's 1st Day of School!!!

My baby is off to school today!! It feels very weird not having her here right now... She is starting her first day of JK (junior kindergarten) which runs all day every day! She is going to Kerns Public School (about 20min away from Chris' dad's house). Marissa's great-great Grandpa - Morley Kramp - was a founding board member of this school.

So she catches a bus at 7:50am, and it will bring her back around 4:15pm. We visited the school and met her teacher - Mrs. Sadler - last week, and she was very excited to go. It is a small country school, so her class is a JK, SK and Grade 1 combined class.

Here is a website for the area: http://www.harley.ca/kerns/index.html

Here is a map showing the school: http://www.harley.ca/kerns/map-roads-print.gif

(our house is not on this map, we are off the bottom of it along Hwy 65)

Marissa and Chris walking up the driveway to the top of the hill.

Marissa with her new backpack and lunchkit.

Marissa and I waiting for the bus to come.

Marissa on the bus!!