Not much happening

Well, it has been a cool week here and most of it was spent inside with a sick Ben. That is for me, Mike spent time with school groups and working on the site for the encounter program. He loves to work and he's really working hard on this one. Right now they have to figure everything out, from how they are going to cook outdoors style to actually physically building the site. It all sounds like a lot of fun and I would love to be helping out, but my place is with Ben for now.

Just a few prayer requests. Ben is sick again and non of us are getting enough sleep. Every time he seems to be on the mend he gets sick again and I'm not sure where he's getting this sickness from, maybe the school groups. Another and fairly big request is that the camp gets its pumps to finish the plumming soon. It affects the entire camp, but affects directly because if they don't fix it we will be living in a trailer with not black water out put. To those of you who don't know what that means, I will have to take Ben with me to the public bathroom whenever I have to go and we will have to share showers/baths with everyone else. I'm sure that it could be don't but it would be a lot harder then life needs to be here. There are enough challenges living up here, we don't need one more.

Thank you for all of your love, support and prayers. We miss you and would love to hear from all of you. Please e-mail anytime or send a letter.

Week 2

Here we are on an adventure @ the camp. We had a great weekend as a family last weekend, we have sent that much time together in a long time. It was nice to have a little breather with all the changes. Ben was slowly getting better @ this point so we vetured into Salmon Arm and Vernon on the weekend. I really didn't know what to expect out of the towns here but we are in need of nothing. I'm sure I'll miss some of my fav. stores but I don't have money to spend on clothes so they would just be temptations anyways.

Ben is all better now, no rash and no signs of his cold anymore. I was thinking he would get sick less up here, but we will have to see.

I was feeling very cooped up this week and a little frustrated with nothing to do when everyone is working hard around me. So the last day a group was here I took my camera out and took pictures of them on the zip line. They looked like it was a lot of fun. I'll never do it but I had a lot of fun taking pictures. Please pray that with my mind being free of active thought that my vivid imagination doesn't take me away and I get depressed for feeling alone up here. The people are great, but they all have jobs to do and I just have Ben and up here, we just wonder around outside a lot.

Anyway, on a happier note. There was a run, walk and cycle fundraiser today and it was fun to have a family day with camp families up here. I took a lot of pictures as well.

Have a great week and I'll try and write more next week.

Our week of adventures

Well, I’m really not sure where to start? Mike was stuck in Abbotsford for an extra day, the bathroom flooded the first night I was here and now Ben might have the measles. Our first week here has been very eventful, and not in a good way.

Our car decided that last week the clutch would start to go. We didn’t realize what had happened until Saturday night when we took it on the freeway again. Emergency visit to our friendly neighborhood mechanic/elder was our first step. He thought maybe he could fix it enough for us to get tour new home, but when he finally saw it he had to get a new clutch and that meant that we had to wait until Monday to get the part. In end it took longer than even Randy thought and Mike got to Gardom Lake just before midnight on Monday.

I however decided to get a ride with my parents. They were going to help us bring everything up here, so we rearranged a bunch of stuff and Ben and I fit in the back seat. Thank you so much, I can’t imagine what Ben would have been like if we had to wait with Mike. Anyway, our trip was uneventful and I spent the afternoon/evening with Ryan and Joanne’s family. When Ben and I came back to our cabin to settle in for the night, I flooded the bathroom. I really felt silly, because I couldn’t fix it. In the end I ended up getting Ben out of bed and hiked with him on my back to Ryan and Joanne’s, then Ryan rescued me from my little flood.

What else? Oh yeah, I just thought that Ben had a rash last week and it went away mostly and this week I just thought he was cranky because we moved, but the “rash” came back. He seems to have the measles for all we know and I have exposed everyone here @ camp. Boy do I feel stupid, I should have gotten him checked out last week.

I’m really hoping that not all our weeks @ camp are this eventful. We are enjoying our time here and Mike loves getting his hands dirty and looking forward to the planning of the Encounter Program.

So far the people are very welcoming and we look forward to each day that we don’t have to eat leftovers. In other words the food is really good.

Please pray Ben recovers quickly, so he can get back to being himself. He isn’t even enjoying the adventuring outside right now. Also that through our time here that Christ will shine through us so we can do His work for the glory of His kingdom.

**We took Ben to the dr. today and he has a viral cold that lead to this rash that can look like measles.

The Journey Begins

Today was to be our big move but out car needs to be repaired. So Mike is staying here until monday sometime to get that dealt with, but Ben and I are moving today. My parents are helping us out big time by taking the two of us up there with all of our stuff.

Please keep us in your prayers as we travel and throughout our new adventure. This summer will be fun but will come with its own challenges for our family.

I will try and keep this up during the summer, but please don't expect too much, I don't know how much I will be on the internet. If you want to get a hold of please e-mail.

Thank you for all your love and support.

Bloody Nose

Here are a couple of pictures of Ben after he got his first bloody nose. I think there will be many pictures of his injuries, as long as I have a camera near by. Sorry they are all wanky, I forgot I was taking them upside down.

Sunny Dayz

Ben and Gabby had a great time outside today. I just love the summer time and enjoy taking pictures so much more when kids are warm and happy.

Seasons Greetings!

Today we went to the Zoo with Ben's girlfriend Gabby and her parents. I guess it was like a date or something. Anyway it was a beautiful day and there is nothing better then taking the kids to the Zoo when they are not going to freeze while you are there. There were many other people waiting to get in when we left just after lunch, I guess we weren't the only people with this great idea.

Ben was really getting into looking @ everything. It's exiting to see that he notices thing more and is understanding why we are there.

The bear was finally out and was having a good time playing. It was so crowded that we had a hard time getting close enough to see.

I guess it was silly face time when we were @ the Zoo.

Here is my silly face.

Another couple of silly faces.

Mike and Jim conversing while the rest of us enjoyed the animals.

Ben with Gabby and Patti in the background.