We got the van!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we got the van today finally! We got the call that it was ready at about 5pm and they delivered it about an hour later. We are extremely happy and will post a picture of it in the near future.

More good news!

Chris passed Part B of his board exam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(We just found out today, finally!)

Also, we found out a few days ago that his business plan was accepted by the bank, and he was approved for his loans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND, the lease agreement for our clinic location in Charleswood has been accepted at the terms we requested!!!!

Praise God!! :-)

Congratulations Nicole and Brett!!!

A big congratulations to Nicole and Brett on the birth of their baby girl Mia Jean on October 22nd!!! She was 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long and born in Winnipeg. I can hardly wait to see her!!! I am happy everything went well.
:-)

Our New Logo!!

This is the logo for our future clinic which is planned to open on Mar 3/08 in the Charleswood area of Winnipeg. We had it designed by an internet company. :-)

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!!

Chris' Wakeboarding Misadventure - slideshow

We were visiting with Chris' family at a lake near Kirkland Lake, ON when Chris decided to try wakeboarding. His first time out went pretty well, but on Aug 24 when he tried it for the second time he fell and broke his foot! He is doing well now, just getting used to getting around with crutches. His foot will be in a cast for 5 weeks...

Oh, yes, because I haven't posted in a while, we are now in New Liskeard, ON until early November. Chris is completing his final term of chiropractic college at his dad's practice here in New Liskeard. He will graduate this November.

Move Complete!

We have successfully moved all our stuff from our Bloomington apartment to a storage facility in Winnipeg. The drive today went very well - we left at about 9 am and arrived in Winnipeg at 7:30 pm. We were held up at the border for only about 5 min.

A very special thank you to Travis & Lisa, Mat and Tye for helping us load the Uhaul last night!!! And a big thank you to the Kelly family for watching the girls yesterday while we packed!!! And another huge thank you to Dave Friesen for driving from Winnipeg on Thursday to our apartment to help with everything and for driving back with us today. We couldn't have done it without all of you! God has blessed us with great friends!!!

And another big thank you to all the guys that are currently unloading the Uhaul at the storage facility! I don't know who you are yet, but I will mention you later....

Right now I have to put my two tired girls to bed.... ;-)

Kaitlyn's First Tooth!!

Kaitlyn finally got her first tooth yesterday! :-)
You could see the two top and two bottom teeth just about poking through for more than a month now, but finally the bottom-right-one won the race and emerged first!

Both girls are doing really well, and are really enjoying swimming in the pool.

Kaitlyn is also quite the creeper. She refuses to actually crawl (similar to Marissa), but can get around a room in her own way. She definitely would prefer to walk, and is mastering the art of walking around the furniture.

We started her on solids at 7 mths, and quickly discovered after a week that she would prefer to feed herself. So we stopped the baby food and give her finger food instead - cheerios, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, strawberries, blueberries, green beans, zucchini, oranges being among her favourites. The last couple of days she has developed more of a taste (and attitude!) as I discovered that she doesn't enjoy peaches - she made a cute screwed up face and then spit it out with a big raspberry! (sticking her tongue out and blowing)

Marissa is enjoying Kaitlyn's new mobility as this makes her more fun to play with. They really do play well together. (Keeping my fingers crossed!) ;-)

Slideshow: Izaty's Golf Getaway

From May 19th to 21st, Mike, Kristi, Chris and I went to Izaty's Golf Retreat located 1.5 hours north of the Twin Cities. Nana flew in from ON to look after the girls for us - thanks Nana!! Chris won the trip in a draw at a Norwestern Health Sciences University event. Included were lodging in a beach villa, meals and unlimited golf at the two courses located there.

We all had a great time - it was just a little cold on Sunday. That was the day Kristi and I decided to "caddy" for the boys for their morning round of golf. We should have gotten a picture of us! We bought sweatshirts from the golf shop and wrapped ourselves up in blankets while driving the carts. We had some good laughs at Chris constantly losing balls, and Mike almost hitting a SUV.

The boys tried their luck at the Grand Casino on Sunday night - a half hour drive away - but that didn't go so well! Kristi and I window shopped so we would be prepared if they did score big! ;-) Ah well, maybe next time!

Congratulations Mat & Jen!!!!

Mat & Jen were supposed to come over for Easter supper, but they decided to have their baby instead!! ;-)
So Lisa and I took some supper to them at the hospital...
Thatcher Larry was born around 2 pm Easter Sunday.


Thatcher sleeping...

Proud papa - Mat

Radiant mom - Jen

Happy Easter!!

You can download this picture and any other that we have posted at http://www.picasaweb.google.com/cmkramp. By downloading them from here you get a higher quality than just downloading them of this site.

HAPPY EASTER!

Congratulations Chris!!!

I had the pleasure of attending a dinner with Chris tonight - the Northwestern Student Leadership Award Dinner. (Kaitlyn attended too; Marissa had a fun night with Mat Finley - thanks Mat!!)

Chris was surprised to find out that he won the Student Leadership Hall of Fame Award for the Chiropractic program. He got a very nice crystal statue as a prize. He won it in part for being active on Student Senate, a Student Ambassador, the President of the Student ICA, the Student ICA National Chair, the President of the Practice Success Club, and the Chair of the Create Your Destiny seminar for this year, and on the committee for the seminar last year. And his love for chiropractic! They also mentioned his family as well.

Way to go Chris!!! I am very proud of you!!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Some leprechans came to our place today and made some green cupcakes to celebrate!

Here is a pic of one of the leprechans - a good helper with green fingers and face to prove it!



This wee lass is a mite too small to help yet, but entertained us with her new skill of "clucking." You can see her tongue sticking out a bit as she makes the cluck sound.

He SHOOTS and He SCORES!!!!!!

Well, I finally got my scores back for component A of the Canadian boards and I passed!!!! All I can say is "Man that feels good"!!!! I think I'm going to get some food for my family tonight and celebrate!!!!

Peace out!

Grandma's come for a visit!

Grandma Manweiller arrived last night to visit with us for a couple of weeks. Chris and Marissa picked her up from the airport. Marissa is very excited to have a sleepover with Grandma. :-)

It will be great to visit with my mom, and have some help!!! :-)

New Highchair

I took these pics tonight - we got Kaitlyn a new highchair, and she enjoys sitting in it and watching us whenever we eat. I took Kaitlyn out after we were done eating, and then Marissa snuck in it to test it out....

Marissa playing in the snow

We went to visit with our friends the Kelly's after chuch today and Marissa got a chance to play outside in the snow with their daughter. They went sledding down the hill in the back (side?) yard and built a snow tower. Both girls had a blast, and of course hot chocolate afterward. :-)
(Yes, that is our dirty car in the background!)

Canadian board exam and the girls first day of school

Well, Mel wanted me to post this a long time ago and I've been procrastinating, but after a ton of nagging here I am typing out this post for you all to read!

The Canadian board exam was tough! The morning half went well enough and I thought that I would be in the clear, however, the afternoon half of the exam was extremely tough. If I fail the exam (which I really hope that I didn't ) it will be due to the second half. The weekend was pretty relaxing after that test. The flight to and from was no problem at all either.

The other day the girls came to school with me to help out as a demonstration for my infant health class. They were there for 2 hours and Marissa had a good time as there were toys for her to play with. Everybody thought Kaitlyn was funny because of how she would laugh during the physical exam and then when she was crying (for no apparent reason) the teacher would give her to me and she would instantly stop crying!

Well, I hope that this brings everybody up to date. Talk to you all later,

Chris

Chris' big exam today...

Chris is in Calgary today (he flew there yesterday) and is writing the first part of the Canadian board exam all day today.

Canadian boards consist of two written exams plus a clinical exam before he will be licensed to practice in Canada. He will write the second part and do the clinical part in the fall.

Please pray that he will not be anxious or tired, and that he will be able to easily recall all that he has learned so that he will be successful and not so stressed. (I am confident that he will do great!)

He is flying back to Bloomington tomorrow morning, so please also pray that the travel will go smoothly.

:-)