Long Overdue

Well we just read a friends blog and she said how it had been over a month since she posted, and then it dawned on us....yikes us too! With all the crazy mix up of this summer we haven't posted anything. So sorry friends.
We are doing well and enjoying family and friends. It's only 2 wks untill we are together for 5 days and then soon enough we will both be back in Alberta and settling in to our new little home.
We will try and post a few more times this summer.

Only One More Sleep!

It's been so much fun this week counting down the sleeps with our neice and nephew. The excitment is rising minute by minute. Sonya will be headed to Ontario to help with some babysitting and camp work. David will follow for a visit in July. We hope to have the chance to connect with those whom we haven't seen in quite awhile.

Oh, and we are now in our new home. We are only renting but it feels so good to have some space and a yard again. We've been blessed with a great landlord who is very supportive in taking care of the house. For the past 2 wks we've been painting and unpacking and trying to make it "home", ofcourse with Sonya leaving for abit the real settling won't take place until August but atleast we are at "home sweet home".
We even had a deer in our back yard the day after we moved in. It was a nice welcome.

Alberta Weather

Well, I am home now and have once again returned to the strange forcasts of Alberta.

We moved into our rental house this past weekend...and we had SNOW all weekend?! Unbelieveably crazy weather. Today there was rain, clouds, sunshine, hail and extreme wind.. Hopefully we won't experience a white summer.

Our new place feels great. It is so good to have space and know that all our belongs are here. No more storage! We did abit of painting in the kitchen and will still be doing the living room and dining room just to freshen things up. Once again I will have space to scrapbook and create, (I have missed this immensely over the last year or so), and soon all my Alaska trip pictures will come to life again...can't wait!

Animal Day Alaska Pics

I'll start by saying we have an awesome creator God! The beauty we have experienced on this trip has been incredible. Today was animal day. We saw them all, moose, bear, elk, eagle, bison, and mountain sheep and multiples of all of them too. Often we drove right up beside them and they weren't even spooked. What a sight. Tonight we are in Fort. Nelson B.C. and we have one more full day of driving ahead of us. Then finally we will be home.
Enjoy the pictures...

Travel Day

We are on the road again and headed back south. We packed the van early and were driving by 5:15 am. We were spoiled in Alaska with all the good weather, but today we drove through lots of snow again...grr. Today was officially moose day. We saw about 12 moose...or meeses..as we have referred to them. It was quite amazing! We arrived tonight in Whitehorse, Yukon after driving 13 hours. Then tomorrow we will be up early again and on the road headed for Fort Nelson, B.C.

Last night in Fairbanks one of the families had us over for a BBQ. It was a fun night to gather with all the pastors and just enjoy our final night together. I will dearly miss the friendships we made during this trip. It felt like we instantly knew these people...I guess that's what being the family of God represents. They were so caring and encouraging to us.

It will be good to finally get home! (I miss you David)

Alaska-Day 6, 7, 8.

The days are continuing to be filled with much activity.
I, Sonya think I will either sleep for 3 days in the van while we travel home or sleep all weekend once we do get home. Either way it will involve a good sleep.(Seems my body hasn't fully accepted the 2 hr time change either)

On Sat. May 30th we did some fun sightseeing...saw the pipeline and the muskox
Yesterday, church was fun for me. Their attendance was down a bit because a large group of men were away on a retreat.The whole service...worship, prayer and sermon were quite enjoyable.

Today I get to share a bit at the Christian school in their chapel service and then we are driving to a near by camp to help with some clean up stuff there too.

Hope to post some pics again soon.

Day 5 Part 2

Well we've made it through another full day.

Thismorning (Thurs) had started with work at the local foodbank. What an incredible facility they have and the staff and volunteers there were awesome. Apparently one business man built the whole foodbank, women's shelter, and street mission facilty just to give back to God what he had been blessed with. WOW!! We also ate lunch there with the staff. Then the afternoon was back at the church and school doing outside projects. Cleaning the yard, raking leaves, scraping paint. It was another beautiful day. In the evening we were invited to a home for a fabulous chicken BBQ. Then most of the team went out for Ice Cream . I however, was kidnapped by the Pastor's wife who drove me on a little tour of the city and then back to the church.I still arrived back before the others.

Fairbanks, Alaska has been experiencing record breaking temperatures this week. Who would have ever thought? 80 degrees F and at 8pm it was still 75 degrees F. No one on the team thought it would be this hot. I'm thankful there is no humidity here, it is more like the dry desert.

The people here have been wonderfully hospitable, taking real good care of us. It is a very warm and friendly group of people