{"id":2427,"date":"2013-02-16T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2013-02-16T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T23:00:39","slug":"what-october-looked-like-langley-lifestyle-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"What October looked like » Langley Lifestyle Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, the first half of October was gorgeous and sunny. We spent every second outside that we could.<\/p>\n

Harvesting the apple tree. This photo makes me smile. Art picking apples. Mattias checking out the strawberries and Noah babbling to James in the bouncy seat.
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\nPlaying \u201cLady and the Tramp\u201d with dad.
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\nAnd with Opa.
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\nAfter making apple sauce, which went remarkably well, I decided to also make apple pie filling. I was too ambitious. It ended with me in a tizzy, a kitchen in such a mess that even my husband remarked on it, a screaming baby and 2 little boys that were testing my patience. Let\u2019s not do that again with a 9 week old baby, okay? But it started out quite well as evidenced by the photos. Mattias the perfect picture big helper. He peeled nearly all the apples for me.
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\nNoah preferred to supervise.
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\nIt\u2019s too bad that I don\u2019t have photos of the aftermath.
\nA day out with Opa & Oma V at Bear Creek Park in Surrey.
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\nThere are times when Art wishes he were 5 again.
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\nOpa & Oma V.
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\nProof that my father is goofy.
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\nSelf timer shot.
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Noah had a field trip with his class to the pumpkin patch. Despite the rain and cold, the kids had a good time.
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Three friends checking out pumpkins.
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James is in the jolly jumper. Nearly 3 months old.
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Lego bonding on Sunday. Mattias\u2019 request fulfilled: firetruck with ladder.
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October 31st. 1:30 AM. We woke up to our tenant\u2019s phone call. \u201cCan I please use your front door because there is a pile of water at the entrance of my door and if I open the door, it will pour into the basement.\u201d Art mumbled something to me about water and went out to meet him.<\/p>\n

Long story short, the basement in our home was flooding. The water was bubbling up like a water fountain where it should have been draining and then seeping into our house through any path it could find.<\/p>\n

It was pouring out. It was pitch black outside. We have all of 4 streetlights over the span of our street. And water was running down our street like a river. A 3 foot wide river. It was clear to us that the backup was somewhere in the city main.<\/p>\n

At 4:30 in the morning, the rain had subsided. The water was no longer pouring into our house and against every fiber in my body, we went to bed.<\/p>\n

The next morning, the plumber came. The insurance company came. The city came. We drank a lot of coffee and so began the saga that is now our basement flood \/ renovation project.<\/p>\n

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The plumber put a scope down the lines to see if there was a blockage.
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Our sump was full at the time of flooding. This is where it normally should be.
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That evening, Art took the boys trick-or-treating. It was raining hard. They went to about 5 houses and came back with SO MUCH CANDY. Noah lining up his stash and teaching Mattias sorting methods.
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As usual, the first half of October was gorgeous and sunny. We spent every second outside that we could. Harvesting the apple tree. This photo makes me smile. Art picking apples. Mattias checking out the strawberries and Noah babbling to James in the bouncy seat. Playing \u201cLady and the Tramp\u201d with dad. And with Opa. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karinlouwerse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}