Well, I have definitely been neglectful in keeping you all posted about what is happening here in Canada, as well as checking up on all the other blogs. Hopefully this week, I will catch up on the blogs. It seems that since school has started that the weeks have flown by and now it is almost December. So, here is a brief overview and lots of pictures.
Halloween: Our church does a Trunk or Treat. Last year we created our trunk to be the Bat Cave. This year we called it Pumpkin Explosion. Mackensey was an Egyptian Princess and Conor was Hillary Clinton Gone Bad. This was his title - not mine. When we came home from the store with a Hillary Clinton mask, Shane just about died, and then we saw the screaming knife - he really did die. I told him the mask was only $1.66 - and he said that he could understand why. Conor was so excited, so how could I say no. Of course nobody in his class got it, and they all wanted to know who Hillary Clinton was - too funny.
Thanksgiving: We had two Thanksgivings this year. One was our Canadian Thanksgiving in October and the other - our American Thanksgiving. Our young couples Bible study meets on Wed. nights and they were saying that we need to have a social night, so Shane opens the calendar and says, "Let's have an American Thanksgiving!" I just about fell out of my chair. One, that is a lot of people. Two, I have only cooked two turkeys in my life and one was good and one was not so good. So, of course I smiled and said, "Sure - that would be fun!" Well, it was a lot of fun. My friend Michelle volunteered to cook the turkey if I bought it and I said that would be terrific. We had thirty people in our house not including babies and small children. After the chaos of organizing and getting tables and chairs from the church, I sat back and soaked in all of the blessings that God has given my family this past year. Although we miss our families, we truly feel home here in Canada and the people surrounding us at dinner as part of our extended family.
