House Update

Isn't it cool that it actually looks like a house now?! I really like the gable (the pointy part)! (I actually know what "Anne of Green Gables" actually means now too!

Here's the view from the back. It's the part that's not as scary since it's not as high.

The basement is still waiting to have the plumbing finished and a floor poured.

I helped David put the Typar (the housewrap) and cut out the windows. We hope to order the roof next week!!!

The first of our windows! We were able to get 5 windows that were pulled out of a house. They took several hours of cleaning, but they look much better now!

You don't have to worry about us any more, mom and dad...we have a snow blower! My hope is that the snow will stay away for a while since we have it now. =] David says he is kind of excited for snow now so that he can use his new machine. I'm glad he's excited. I'll glad watch him blow the snow!

A beautiful sunset I captured in the clouds (we can't actually see the sunset behind the trees). Isn't God so creative? What an amazing God we have!

First Day of School

Today is the big day! I feel like I'm sending my boy off to school for the first time, and in a way I am. David heads down to Toronto for the weekend to teach "TCE"- Teaching Children Effectively Level 1. It's a 30 hour course that is really solid in helping children's ministry workers see the need to evangelize along with the tools and practice to actually do it. It's quite the process to be able to teach it and David is working through the final step of it-- having his lesson plans and classes evaluated. I'm very thankful to be past that stage and now just get to sympathize with him and pray for him.

This course spans 4 weekends: Oct 29-30, Nov 5-6, Nov 12-13, Nov 19-20. There are  8-10 students enrolled. Please pray for the students to have the time necessary to put into the course and the homework and practice that goes along with it. The whole goal is to see children come to know the Saviour but it can be easy to lose sight of the importance of that in the midst of a busy life. I get to join in on teaching for two weekends...but because of other things to be done, I can't go this weekend...so in a few hours David will be heading off on his own. I better go pack his backpack suitcase.

A Little Fishy

Random story of the week...
I had a cold, one with a completely stuffed nose. I had bought some fish on sale and thought I would cook it all nice for David after a he'd worked a long day on the house. Upon entering our apartment my kind husband commented "It smells kind of fishy in here." To which I replied, "Well, I am cooking fish." =]

However, when we sat down to eat, I smelled it just a bit and commented that it smelled a little strange. David then informed me that it actually smelt quite bad--not really fishy bad, but rotten bad. We both tried a tiny bit and knew it was officially bad.

That night while I was at a ladies Bible study, our land lord, Ruth, knocked on our door. She asked David I was cooking something different that day. He explained the situation to which she said with relief, "Oh good! I thought there was something dead on our side." I did think that was pretty funny...it was just that bad. A week later, the nasty smell has pretty much cleared out...finally!

Canadian Thanksgiving in the U.S.

 My parents gave me the amazing opportunity to fly to Minnesota for a week to visit!!!! It was a rather sudden thing, but David and the other workers had things covered at the Norfolk County Fair. It was the first time I've been back by myself since getting married almost 2 1/2 years ago.

 The weather was absolutely amazing and hot! I LOVED it! (sorry Stacy) I got to run around with the kids barefoot!

 We had a blast playing the leaves.

 Carving a pumpkin. (Don't you love that Christopher is going at it with his toy saw. It's a good thing it's plastic or the pumpkin would have been completely destroyed in minutes.)

 That's the "yucky" pumpkin face.

 It's amazing how every little girl wants to be a princess. The sweetest thing was seeing my brother dance with his little girl. She even had plastic high heels on. Her big sister was so good about sharing with her too!

 Now here's the real princess...the reason I ended up going to MN. My mom was in a fashion show for Breast Cancer survivors. It's amazing that God has spared her life for 30 years since her first diagnosis.

 My sister was adopted and I was born after mom's first two surgeries. The last reoccurance was when I was in 1st grade...she's been cancer free since! Praise the Lord!

 What a sweetie! She 4 but knows the sounds all the letters of the alphabet make too- she "taught" my mom and I her song. It was so cute. I guess it helps that her dad and mom are teachers.

I got to meet beautiful Elliana and even be there for her baby dedication!

 The diligent little artist.

 Brielle found a nice leaf for me.

..so I put the leaf in my hair. I sure do miss those kids. It was wonderful to see them but the time went by way too fast. 

My sister even made Canadian Thanksgiving dinner for me! Josie called it "Fake Thanksgiving". We did our tradition of saying something you're thankful for and then getting to eat a candy corn. We just did 3 thankful corn (it's 5 at "real" Thanksgiving). It was neat to hear the kids come up with things. I'm thankful for:

1) Getting to go to Minnesota and see my wonderful family

2) My incredible husband David who is so loving and thoughtful

3) Our house that David is building