Family Christmas

Uppermost in our minds this Christmas was Darrell and Jess's trip to Africa this January to facilitate the adoption of twin girls. They will likely be there three to six months. So the girls were definately on our Christmas lists.

Our girls.

Sorry, I don't have a corresponding picture of our boys!
I do have a nice family picture of all of us, so leave a comment if you would like me to email it to you.

The basement still isn't finished, but it was good enough to use. The grandkids enjoyed the playroom.

And it was nice to have room to hang out downstairs.

There was definately enough snow for sledding!

News from Darrell and Jess

Most of you know that Darrell and Jess have been working on International Adoption from Ghana, and that they are one of many couples who were affected by the bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption Agency. They had 2-year-old twin girls referred to them last February and have continued to work on the adoption through a Ghanaian lawyer. They are working on the necessary steps and are planning to go to Ghana sometime in January. This is a huge step that means a leave of absence from their work.

A friend is planning a fundraising dinner for them on January 9th. If you want more information, you can check out their blog and follow the link on the poster above to the facebook site telling about the fundraiser. We would appreciate prayer that God would lead the way and turn the many mountains into smooth roads!

Snowstorm

The storm began Friday morning and Saturday night it's still snowing and blowing, but it's eased up a lot. We had a side door put into our garage, and it came in handy to get out of the house to shovel, since it had blown clear.

Our driveway became a dumping spot for blowing snow - five feet of it! For some reason our driveway was worse than many. As you can see, our siding has only been partially replaced since our August hailstorm. The soffits have been replaced, but not all the trim or eavestroughs. We had stone put on either side of the garage door when they replaced the siding. Our shingles still need replacing. Think it'll happen Monday???

We shovelled out just enough to get our truck out. Mal and I started, then the neighbor across the street helped substantially, and eventually two other neighbors joined us. It took all of us about 2 hours - but then we're only half done! By morning we may have to start all over.

In between the two piles of snow is our sidewalk nicely shovelled out. Not too much of our lamp post showing! Before the storm hit we had no snow at all.

This is our street. All morning trucks were trying to get out, and then backing up because they couldn't get through. About 4 p.m. a grader came through.