A Quick Breakfast
For anyone who has read our blog since our time in Durham, you likely remember Ben and Ruth Kane. The Kanes were in missionary training with us and we had plenty of adventures together. We travelled to Toronto to acquire American citizenship for our kids, we spent plenty of holidays together, they visited us in [...]
Read onWordle Word Clouds – An Interesting Look at Data
I stumbled upon a neat site called Wordle. Wordle lets you input either text, rss feed or webpage and it will give you a visualization of the frequency of certain words in the text. The more frequent a certain word is in the text the bigger it will be. Feeding it chapters of the Bible [...]
Read onsigh, more paperwork
Debra had a citizenship hearing this morning before a judge to determine whether or not she will be allowed to be sworn in as a Canadian citizen. The results were a little frustrating though not as bad as they could have been. In short, the judge said neither yes nor no. He asked for more paperwork; tax [...]
Read onMama, Tu nous manque!
We miss you mom! Canaan has been saying that ever since Debra left for Canada a few days ago. At 5:40am Wednesday morning we left for the airport, Debra was on her way to Canada. This is only the third time we’ve been separated in our nearly five years of marriage, definitely not something we [...]
Read onOur Budding Photographer
We took out our camera today to get some photos of Emmaus but were interrupted by Canaan’s desire to have his own photo shoot! We handed over the camera and this is what he came up with:
Read onCanaan & Emmaus’ Room
We’ve had a lot of fun setting up a room for the boys. They are sharing a room and both seem to be doing fine with it. When Emmaus cries, it doesn’t seem to bother Canaan, he’s so patient with his little brother. Debra’s parents found a crib for Emmaus, it’s the first time we’ve [...]
Read onScooter Time!
We’ve spent two nights in our new apartment, Canaan has been very excited to finally have his own home. We spent about 4 days driving around and picking up furniture that had been donated. It’s been so awesome to see our house completely furnished by the donations of our friends and family. One person donated [...]
Read onHome Sweet Home
We’re in! Or at least most of our stuff is. We loaded up mom and dads Pilot and in one load took three quarters of our stuff over. Our landlord Dave is a great guy and the apartment is very clean. We’ll be busy for the next few days unpacking but we finally are in [...]
Read onHolding Pattern
Ever been on a flight, ready to land when you hear over the loud speaker that the plane is going to have to wait in a holding pattern until there is room to land? That is kind of how we feel. We’ve arrived in California. Our shipment arrived in California. The only problem is that [...]
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