Just wanted to put up some cute pics of the family!

Judah is totally obsessed with the giant corn pops box! Takes it everywhere around the house.

Convention

So this past weekend our family got to go to the CLB(Canadian Lutheran Brethren) Convention in Edmonton. All in all it was a great weekend! But it has taken me all day to recuperate.

It was a really great time getting to see the leaders in the CLB. I have met quite a few from the US side of things. But this time I got to see who we will be working with in the future now that we are in Canada. And since Daniel spent most of his growing up years in Canada, I got to meet a lot of people that he grew up with. It was really great being able to put some faces to the names. And apparently the Stenbergs made quite an impression up here. A good one of course. :) 

The hardest part of the weekend which was also quite a large part of the weekend, was that there was really nothing for the little ones to do during the sessions. I think we are trying to pave the way, for it to be easier to for families with younger children to go to these things in the future. The kids really did very great, with having to sit through all the sessions. But I was a bit stressed with trying to keep Judah from screaming when he couldn't get what he wanted. Which happens too often. lol I wasn't sure how we were going to make it through the banquet dinner when we sat down with all the glass dishes and immediately Judah pulled on the table cloth. But he was stopped before the dishes went tumbling off. And right after dinner we had our speaker in the same room. During that time Judah decided that he really did want the rest of his dinner that he had pitched on the floor and started eating that up in front of everyone. I just had to laugh at that point. 

One neat thing we did on Saturday morning, Kim, the pastors wife from Birch Hills, Mandy and I went to a coffee shop that has a play area in the middle for the kids. I've never been to a place like that before. So we got to do some visiting and the kids had fun playing. 

I thoroughly enjoyed my time hanging out with the women and getting a feel for the CLB. (And getting out of the house). I'm so thankful we all got to go up!

Happy 6 year anniversary!

So life has been pretty busy the last few days really. 

We have been waiting for a long time to receive our tax return. With that it has given us a lot of time to think about what we wanted to do with it. What we should buy how much to save all that. I have been in the process of researching vehicles and dogs. 

I will expound on the dog part. Most of you know we lost our dear Belle right before we had to move. That was really hard. I was really hoping to not have to jump into training a puppy for a very long time. I really don't enjoy the puppy stage very much. The chewing the potty training, all that is not really worth it to me to have them little and cute. I'm fine with them growing up and then I can trust them to not destroy my house. I was really missing Belle, and Kaiser was not quite the same. He was depressed, and even more high maintenance. So I started looking into dogs, I did a lot of research on a bunch of different breeds trying to figure out what would be best for our family. We decided to go with a West Highland Terrier. When I was looking into getting one I found out they were very expensive in Calgary, CKC registered and all that. Well we were not going to pay 1000 for a dog right now. So I found some in the boondocks 2 1/2 hours away(poor Daniel), for a third the price. So we drove down on Saturday and picked our puppy up. I think we bought our puppy from Cruella Deville. We met her in the bigger town that was a little closer to us which was nice. We had lunch at one of our favorite places in Canada A&W and she met us there. She was with her husband and they drove up in her new black sedan, she had black fur around the collar of her coat and was smoking a cigarette. Anyway, I think she was a nice lady. But her whole lot made me chuckle. So now we have our little Tula. She is a sweet dog but a puppy none the less. But I'm very happy to have her. And Kaiser has been enjoying her for the most part. He was so excited when we brought her home. 

Yesterday we bought a Mini Van. I guess I am now officially a soccer mom! Originally we wanted an SUV but the more I looked into the practicality of them with having two kids in car seats and then if we do have another baby, it would have been hard. That was another thing I spent a bit of time researching them as well. As most of you know, when we bought the Jetta we bought a bad year. We didn't know that at the time. But we sure do now! So I didn't want a repeat experience. The Honda Odyssey's and the Toyota Sienna's have the best reviews. But since we are sticking with the Dave Ramsey way, we bought a 2002 Dodge Caravan. I am really happy with it so far. I think it will be great for our family. We will be able to take other people, and it will be fun to road trip in! The pic I have above is not the actual one, but I didn't want to go through the work of pulling it out of the garage in the cold to take a picture. But this is what it looks like.

And finally, Daniel was able to get his tv that he has been waiting for I don't remember.

So now we are working on being able to drive legally in Canada. Getting all the paperwork we need from the states so that we can get insurance and drivers licenses up here. I'm looking forward to when all of the immigration stuff is done!! 

Tomorrow is our 6 year anniversary, and we have a lot to celebrate. Although, Daniel is still trying to get used to the fact that he owns  mini-van now. ;)

We are feeling very blessed and thankful for God meeting all of our needs and more.