It's been a little bit since I've sat down and added anything here, but what can I say . . . life has gotten a bit busy . . . but I'm here now!!!
Since we've been here we've started doing "Family Date Nights" - which the kids LOVE, and so do we! They are stay at home nights that the kids and I cook up a huge meal for Daddy, set out candles, etc and make supper really special for when he gets home. Then, after supper, we play games, watch movies, etc. We don't go anywhere special because we've found that when we do we end up with grumpy kids because it's usually on a Friday night, after Daddy gets home from work.
So this past Friday was our Date night - the kids helped make supper and we had cheesecake for dessert - yummy (and dessert doesn't happen very often in this family!) Then after supper we had a Hungry Hippo tournament - which was
LOUD!!! The cool thing about the game is that even Navia can play -
and sometimes even win without anyone's help - although Emma kept on putting her marbles in with Navia's when we counted them at the end of a round - sisterly love!
After that we needed some time to just relax, so on went a movie and relaxing happened. It was a really good night!
This weekend we had another big moment - Brade led worship for the first time since we left Airdrie! I did keys and vocal and we had a guy at Brade's work do drums and his brother on bass and another friend on electric, while Brade did acoustic. Then a girl from Arlington Woods (a past church that we worked at) who is now attending this church sang background with us. It was a really good morning - although I'm pretty sure that 6:00am didn't seem to come so early when we did this before!!! The church was 1/2 hr away, so we picked up our babysitter, Amanda, and took her with us to watch the kids while we practiced and then she just went to the children's programs that they had there during the service. The church that we
did worship at is called
Renaissance Church and held in a high school's theatre. To get back to playing was amazing!!! But I really think the best part of it all was doing worship with my husband again - can't really put it into words, but it's really cool! If you click on the bottom
