We Are Here!!

Hi all, have a few minutes but wanted to let you know that we are all here and well and safe and having pizza with Cristian, I will post a photo of him next time, he is our contact here. We will be at the camp now for a few days, doing improvements on our appartment, apparently a 2nd floor with a concrete roof!! Whoa!! Things are going so well and God is with us!!
It's hot here, but it's a great hot!
Love you all much and miss you,
Be blessed,
Brent, Rhea, Rebecca, Mikaela and Reilly

Our Last Day In Canada

Well getting ready these last 2 weeks has been sooooo very hectic. Trying to get things settled into the correct place, like whether to put it in storage, or pack it to take or pack it to send on the rail container, or do we really want it any more. Trying to get in all our visiting, last minute details to make sure are done (everything from school supplies to making sure we have enough feminine products!) and shopping (I even said I had had enough of shopping). We had to make sure that our "girls" that are renting our place were all set and that we left our house in the shape that we wanted them to get it in, so had to have some major work done to the pot bellied stove and chimney which put us back a bit. Little things that normally we just wouldn't think about. So though I have been done work, I sure haven't had time to miss it. Brent was done work last Friday and his coworkers got him a camera! It gave him a lot of pride to know that he will be missed! Tonight we had a chili supper with all our family, except Taylor who has gone to visit her Dad in Ontario for 3 weeks, and will spend some quality time with them. We will miss Christy, Taylor, Dallas, Amy, Nikki and Darel very much! Our dear friends Al and Sue came over for a visit and then we tried to sleep.

We want to thank everyone for the support as we go on our adventure, from family to coworkers and friends to church family. God Bless you all!

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Rhea's Last Day of Work

As I sit at work and think how much I am going to miss the people I work with, I wonder about how things will be without me here. Will they miss me? Will they wonder how we are? Things change and so do people. It's funny, how things come about. What things lead you to different decisions in your life? Two years ago this day would have been the furthest thing from my mind, foreign to me. What? Quit my job! Are you nuts? Apparently! I just wanted to say that working for the Calgary Public Library was the best job I have ever had. Was an excellent part of my life for the last 7+ years, but things change. The decision of management to not give me a leave of absence was probably the most shocking thing. It rocked the strong belief that I had about how CPL was really the best place ever, but now I know that to not be true. I was comfortable in a place that was making me not live my life to it's fullest. Don't get me wrong, I think that they made the wrong decision in not giving me a leave. I was a very loyal, hardworking employee and would have been back in a year, even better, but now I have the whole world open to me and God will guide where I go from here. Just as he has guided me so far. I am at a good "place" right now and looking forward to our adventure to begin in 14 days!

19 and counting!

With 7 of our 12 bags packed we are counting down from 19 days. Rhea has 4 'work' days left, Brent has 8. The girls of course are done school and are busy hanging with friends, swimming at the lake and shopping. The last week before we leave we plan on seeing Pirates of Caribbean, maybe the X-Men 3 and hiking at Lake Louise just to help distract and keep us from going crazy, which we happen to be half way there already! We have said some Goodbyes and shed a few tears, but know that the 29th when we say Goodbye to our older kids will be the toughest. Things are incredibly busy and our minds are always working, tough to sleep, even when know you need a good nights sleep. Talk to you in a few days!!