Weekend Update

Good morning. It is 6:26am. The sun is shining over the eastern mountain. Coffee is brewed. Family sleeps.

Our friends from Chichi (Don, Heather, Aiden, Ali, and Olivia) left yesterday noon. It was awesome to see the kids playing together again. It was also good for us to have little Olivia here because it helped us to see the little things a little one will get into. Granted we have a wee bit of time before our new baby girl (*sigh* - yes, she is still unnamed) starts crawling and walking.

The rest of our weekend was peaceful. Abigail has taken the "writers workshop" to the next level. She has personally penned three stories. We are really excited to see her truly enjoying this new hobby. We're thinking of taking out stock in the paper company.

Ohhhhh, we may have an awesome answer to prayer! It looks like our transportation problem has been solved. Richard and Jean, the owners of the van we've used off-and-on for the last month or so have found a vehicle from another missionary family (friends of ours) for a very reasonable price. So it looks like we will be able to get the van from them for much less than we were originally thinking - $2,500.

However, we still need to pay for it (slight complication). Please continue to pray over this because we see it as the Lord blessing us with a reliable vehicle for about 50% of what the vehicle is worth.

Moving on!

-knme

Canadian Thanksgiving

Well with the anticipated date for thesection being 24 or 25 November we decided to go all out forCanadian Thanksgiving this year. We invited a few of our friends, boughta turkey, and enjoy ourselves.

The food was wonderful. I believe a

good time was enjoyed by all.

-knme

Picture day? Whooops...

So our noble cause this morning was picture day.

I (Kenneth) got up at 5:40am and blew through the shower. I took considerable care to make sure every hair was in place. On the way through to get Abigail I poked the pregnant sleeping beauty (life in own hands, I realize).

Abigail was unusually pleasant with the idea of the "bower" (Daddy's cross between a bath and a shower). I literally scooped her up and placed her in the tub. One squeaky clean girl later we were getting her dressed. Beautiful dress on, teeth brushed, hair combed, smile on... ready!

Emma, pre-"bowered" from the night before, gets dressed because she gets to hang out with Daddy this morning.

Upstairs we all go for breakfast... Abigail spills a little bit of milk on her dress... no big deal (recalls some famous saying about spilled milk).

Lunch packed after considerable distress at the idea of having her first sandwich in over two weeks -- oh the agony. Compromise: left over rice, corn, and crock-pot-chicken -- ok, we're happy now. Her sandwich will have to wait for another day.

Dog out, kids in car, computer in car, 'rents in car -- all set and ready for take off. Not bad, only 10 minutes late. We're in good shape. Have to be to school for 7:30 for staff picture. Normal 10 minute drive -- 20 minutes in the morning due to traffic. Departure time: 7:15... *sigh*

Oh yeah, elementary picture day is tomorrow -- no time to change Abigail now... off we go.

Traffic.

Oh why do they have to come down the two lane road (one lane coming and one lane going) side-by-side?! I mean there are two lanes: one for us and two for them? What?!

Oh yeah... today was pizza day for Abigail... *sigh*, serious?

-knme