since the last post

Nadia's been learning guitar.

We all went to a little hill to try out the new sled. It was Nadia's first time sledding and she was so excited. First she went down with Daddy and then she learned to go down on her own. Colin gave it a go with Daddy too, but it was much too cold for him. So we sat in the car and took photos.
Colin loves to sit on things. He will find something the right height and slowly turn around and carefully sit on it. One day he must have sat on the toy drum about 50 times, just practicing.

Auntie Lisa, Juanita and Kaleb came to visit. Nadia had a fun time hugging and generally smothering him. And look at what a good sport Kaleb was, he's even smiling.
A new game the kids made up. Sliding around on the tea set tray in the family room. I looks really fun, but takes way too much energy and muscle, especially to fly Nadia around the room.
I asked Nadia to clean up the toys and make sure they all go in the proper bins. I guess we have a lot of upstairs toys that migrated to the living room. When I saw the pile so precariously stacked twice as high as the basket I couldn't help but laugh.
Colin's new favourite thing is to play with the water in the sink, and the stopper. He gets soaked and frozen, but he just keeps playing. Nadia looks like she's helping, but really she just saw me taking a photo and wanted to be in it.
Colin's first go at the spoon. One day he was so whiny before supper that I gave him a fruit cup and a spoon to keep him busy. As Nadia and I worked in the kitchen we soon figured out that he wasn't hungry, he just wanted to play in the water at the sink. He can even get the chair over to the sink by himself.

If you're wondering about where we're at, then you'll want to read the following update. I know it's hard to keep track of what we're doing and where we're going so I'll give you what we know. We've been talking to a church in Edmonton about a lead pastor position. From what they've sent us and from what we've heard we would love to go there and we think it would be a fit. We're ready to get going, but the search committee is ready to break for Christmas, so we won't hear anything until after the New Year.

We've had an income until end of November, thanks to the generosity of the church, but Tim has been working on the house until now and just a few weeks ago started looking for work. Turns out this is bad timing to find something in the trades, and so we had a stressful few weeks job hunting and really hoping for anything. He applied at such a variety of companies and finally was offered a job from Ashley cabinets and windows. He's doing the deliveries for now and we're hoping he can move into the shop soon. I, Annalisa, was asked to paint a basement and spent the last week working evenings doing that. Anyone need any painting or cleaning done? So we're scraping by and hoping for things to move along in the New Year.