Hello All!
Yes I am
writing this the day after
the Winter Olympics has finally wrapped up in our city of Vancouver for 2010 and
even the cherry blossoms flower early in celebration. Canada amazingly has raked in
the highest bounty of gold medals ever recorded. And what a fantastic game to end the grand Olympic event – the Men’s Gold Medal Hockey game, won in an over time of sudden death, with Crosby whizzing the puck stealthily past the USA into the net and well, the rest is history! There were flags waving, horns honking, people cheering on the streets as we left our friends home yesterday afternoon and drove home surrounded by an air thick with Cana
dian spirit. Oh, Canada.
February is our shortest month, yet never the slowest. It seems Kevin and I have managed to make the most of the last 28 days and not slowing down for March.
Our biggest excitement has been the new arrival of nephew number four – Marc Paradis, born Feb 24th 2010. Camille triumphed, delivering Marc into the world, a whopping 9 lbs 4 oz! Yes I am impressed and cringing at the same time. I am praying God will have mercy on me and let my first child enter in at around 7 lbs – here’s hoping!
Febraury also brought in a great victory for the New Orleans S
aints NFL team this year at the Superbowl. Cyndi our Texan friend, Jess, Kevin, Ernie (also originally from Texas) and Merrilyn all piled into their living room to watch the game over red beans and rice and beinets (french donuts). It was quite the game and of course we were all were super happy Greg Brees the Christian quarterback of the Saints got to give thanks to God and bring the glory back to our incredible author and finisher of our fate. Does God like NFL? I think so!
As part of wanting to be a little spo
ntaneous and adventurous this month, Kev and I decided to go horse riding in Abbotsford one weekend. It was the perfect country getaway for the city-slickers, and of course I ended up with Phoniex, a cantankerous old horse who lik
es to be in front and take his own path or else the butt of the horse in front will get bitten! Kev’s horse Monty, was the victim of some bum-biting at various times throughout our ride. We even got to canter on the horses at the end, which was quite exciting for me, who has ridden only once and been terrified by horses. I overcame – yippee! Kev was an old pro, a cowboy on the ranch from way back – what a stud!
And on the home front, we had to say goodbye to our dear friend Jojo this month, as he was deported back to Germany after a fiasco of trying to line up work in Canada, to no avail and of course no mercy was given at the border and lets just s
ay in seven days, Jojo had cleaned out his room, handed over his keys and gifted me his car. It was a sad and sudden departure but as we all feel, not the last time we’ll see our crazy German friend.
If anyone’s on Facebook, Jojo apparently is an excellent farmer!
Disclaimer: I personally do not endorse Farmville, or encourage consecutive hours at ones computer harvesting tomatoes or finding ugly ducks.
And as one dear friend leaves, another arrives. Yes, Rob ‘Shanks’ Luke is in town and he brought the vegemite from Australia! G’Day Robbo! Yes infact I have just come back from greeting him as he is now living upstairs in Jojo’s room. Rob Ting, Eleni, Elias, Pete, Kev and myself were all treated to a little Aussie Kangeroo Jerky. Yes, it exists, some company had thought upon this as a good thing. Let us tell you – it’s not. Not after Tikka Masala and Beef Rendang, anyways. But the fantails, minties and timtams were fine. All Aussie treats for the sweet tooth, which unfortunately and possibly for the long-term fortunately, Kevin and I do not gorge on since switching to a lifestyle of no sugar. Well, no artificial sugars – honey counts!
Well, that’s February and it’s full steam ahea
d in March as we kick off this weekend with the Restoring the Foundations course that Kev and I went down to the States to do last January. Wayne and Marilyn are coming up to Vancouver to host a weekend conference at our church and what we thought was going to be a more intimate weekend is no
w at nearly 100 people. We definitely will have our hands full as we help on the team of ministering to the crowd. Keep us in your prayers!
