Not too much to say

I really wish I had something to update on, but there is really nothing going on. Life in the motel is getting really old and I think every single person I talked to at Church today asked when our house would be finished! Neither James or I have the personality to hound the contractor and demand that work get finished, and seriously I am not sure if it would even help! I think on any given day there may be only one guy working on the house, and for that reason alone I can't expect it to be finished any quicker. I may have to go and take some pictures this week so I can see the progress and get some encouragement!

In other news I have some great ideas for Christmas pictures this year, so hopefully the snow will come!

The kids are all doing well.

~Leah has started her home reading and is really enjoying her version of reading the books! A combination of memorizing words and looking at pictures! Its a start and it is really exciting to actually hear her sound out a word!!

~Elijah is totally obsessed with the Cars movie. Since the Motel room is so small, he unfortunately has gotten pretty spoiled with being able to watch an abnormal amount of TV and Cars is the movie of choice 9 times out of 10! James, being a slightly passionate guy (insert sarcasm here!) has started buying him the hot wheels characters from the movie and I hate to admit he almost has them all. The rest will be arriving in the mail this week, via e-bay. (James was able to get a box of 20 characters for a pretty good price!) So Dad if we have any duplicates, you will be getting the extras!!

~ Caidy is doing well. Her personality has really come out and she is a blast! She always has us laughing and wants to be the center of attention, be it positive or negative! In the nursery at Church she is already getting pretty aggressive, trying to steal every ones snacks taking all the toys for her own! Although she is quite tough, she can hold her own and is super sweet and gently at the same time! She has been napping in a bed and will be moving into her big girl bed once we get into the house! She does so well and lays right down, says nigh nigh and closes her eyes before I leave the room!! I thank God daily for such amazing sleepers. To think we have all 3 kids in the same room, Leah and Elijah in the same bed, Caidy less that 1 foot away in the play pen, with all of them having the same bed time and they sleep great! Thank you Jesus!!!

Caidy

We tried to go to the park tonight after naps, but it was too cold and dark, even though it was only 4! I still ended up getting a pretty cute picture of Caidy. This was her first time getting 'piggies' in her hair and she looks pretty stinkin cute!!

What do you get when...

You find this on the living room floor

Followed by this in the garbage?





You get a little girl who decided she wanted bangs and a mullet!!!



Fortunately we were able to get into a Salon right away.




Although mommy is not too fond of the new hair cut, I am not going to say anything negative about it to my beautiful girl who thinks she looks like a new woman!! She loves her bangs and I know for myself I need to use this as an opportunity to build up Leah with the knowledge that she doesn't need to have perfect hair or clothes or anything else materialistic to make her who she is. I want to challenge all of you to do the same as well, please help us raise our girls to not care about clothes, or hair, but to be concerned about who they are in Christ.

Our Flood

If you are wondering why there haven't been too many updates lately, it is because on Sept 22nd our house flooded! We went to Kelowna for the weekend, a Youth Retreat, and received a phone call that our house was flooding and they thought the water had been running for quite a while! It was the toilet in the upstairs bathroom that caused the damage, the little hose that connects the wall to the toilet burst.

This was the reason our neighbours called the city and had the water turned off!

Here is the inside, kitchen and dining room. You can see how the water moved things on the floor, and also the hole in the flooring is where we removed a wall when we first moved in. I am not sure where the pail of water came from, but I am pretty sure we left no pails around before we left.

Here is the ceiling in the living room/kitchen.dining room. We had scraped off all the popcorn stuff because it was ugly and then were waiting for an electrician to come before we re-painted. We were told that if the water would have ran for only an hour more the ceiling would have fallen and all of our furniture would have been damaged.

This is a door jam in the basement and I was shocked to see how high the water actually got, or maybe it was how much water the wood absorbed. I am not sure. We have wood panelling in the rec room in the basement and unfortunately they are not tearing it down, I am not sure if it just doesn't absorb water or if it is such crappy stuff you can't wreck it!!

Here is the main level of the house today. They are almost completely done re-drywalling everything and we are hoping the mudding will be finished this week.

These are the upstairs bedrooms. They only had to remove 2 feet worth of drywall on all the upstairs walls.
Since the house flooded we have been living in a Motel! We are really trying to keep life as normal as possible, but lately it has proven really hard. We can't blame the kids at all for being a little crazy, James and I ourselves are going nuts! We are hoping to be back into the house at the start of December, but I guess with construction you never really know!!

Trick or Treat!

Caidy was a Bee!

Elijah was Spider Man!

Leah was a Bride!

We had a great time out trick and treating! It was a little cold, but they got tons of candy! Later

Wilson's