A praise and a prayer request!

  This weekend was full of many things.  There was a lot of reading, laughing, being silly, and the making of memories...  Saturday we made another ice cream cake, which we put away for the Sunday Birthday celebrations.  Scott's mom brought a springform pan, so I was able to make it more like a cake and less like a casserole:)  To go back a little, I have to tell you about something that happened on Friday.  There was a lot of drama involved as I tried to kill a mouse that I spied in my cupboard.  It was under a spinning shelf and it was like playing Russian Roulette.  I would try to stab it when I saw it in the opening.  Caleb was behind me cheering me on.  Well, at a certain point it darted out of the cupboard and went close to my foot.  I proceeded to scream, lost my balance and fell over:)  I was in a crouched position with Caleb behind me.  It was quite comical, only it scared Caleb and he cried a bit, especially when he found out that there was still a mouse in our house!  I was telling the story to Preston that night and he said, "you mean that mouse!"  One ran close to him.  So I shoved a glue trap next to the piano and Preston swept under it with a broom, the mouse tried to escape and got stuck on the glue trap.  Yeah, for us.  He heard another one on Sunday night, but couldn't find it. As soon as they went to bed I turned out the lights, but stayed up a couple minutes to check e-mail.  I saw the mouse peek his head out and he looked like he was going for a bite of bread Kiersten had dropped.  I stood up, which scared him. put another glue trap in the path he would have to take to get the bread, turned the light out and waited less than a minute before he took the bait and got caught!  Yeah!  So happy the Lord helped it to work:)
  Sunday was a good day.  A lady in our church did some harvest decorating and it turned out really nice.  I'll try to post some pics that Kirk took. Kiersten was drawn to the little gourds and things. She loves to carry the vegetables from our garden around the house,especially the smaller ones that she can hold onto really well.  The kids did really well sitting with the Grandparents again.  I had to hold Caleb near the end, but it worked out because Kiersten had fallen asleep and I was able to let someone else hold her.  I'm so thankful that she fell asleep because she has turned into the biggest chatterbox!  It's okay at home, but too much of a disturbance.  I'm really looking forward to the business meeting this week.  We're going to discuss getting the sound system that we tried out this summer and putting a speaker downstairs.  I won't feel so bad being down there if I can still hear the sermons:).  In the afternoon we had ham, potatoes, carrots and ice cream cake.  Everyone seemed to think that the ice cream cake was as good as the Dairy queen ones.  It cost less to make it too:)  Elyssia opened up some of her presents.  Her nana made her a quilt and Kirk gave her band-aids and a stethoscope set to further encourage her nursing interest.  The rest of the afternoon we played soccer(Garrison got soccer cleats for his birthday) and took turns taking naps:).
  This morning Preston left around 7.  He had to get back and finish some last minute things before getting on a plane and flying to England.  He's going over to get a gold medal for a paper that he wrote and then he will spend a bit of time exploring England and Scotland.  We'll enjoy looking at the hundreds of pictures he takes later on.  The men made a chicken and some potatoes for lunch and I warmed two pies that I'd made ahead of time.  Overall it was a very delicious Thanksgiving meal.  When the ice cream was brought up to eat with the pie, I opened it up and discovered that it was more like Ice cream soup!  The men ran down and discovered that the freezer had quit sometime on Sunday most likely.  Thank the Lord it was discovered today and not later in the week. We would have lost all the meat we just bought and a lot of other things. Thankfully we have an upright freezer and the Lord helped Scott to fit everything into it.  A pretty amazing accomplishment considering how much applesauce and baked goods I'd stored up in the past month or so. 

Kiersten playing with the harvest display.

The October birthday people.

Elyssia playing with the paddle ball from uncle Preston.

Kiersten  distracted by everything going on around her.

Garrison being Kung Fu Superman

We were looking at Lego structures on the mantle, but noticed Kirk taking pics. We HAD to smile!

The favorite toy for over 2 years now!

  On another note, we could use a lot of prayer.  My citizenship test is on Thursday.  I've had my permanent resident card for 5 and a half years and mostly kept it in the lock box.  We have all the other documents, but somehow the card has disappeared.  We REALLY need to find it.  I've looked everywhere in the office and our bedroom, but after the kids go to bed tonight we'll have to search again.  We're praying that we'll find it today, that way tomorrow can be somewhat relaxing:)  Scott is going to take the kids for me around 3 so that I can take the van in for an oil change and get ready for the Ladies Bible Study.  I was going to have playgroup in the afternoon too, but one of the ladies is one bed rest with her pregnancy and with everything else being so busy we decided to cancel this week.  Wednesday we'll be packing a few things and heading to Saskatoon.  My test is in the morning and we don't want to be rushing on Wednesday to get there in time and all tired because we left at 4:30 in the morning.  So, that's the weekend and today in a nutshell.  Okay, so maybe it wasn't so simple, but so much to be thankful for and look forward to.  I KNOW the Lord is able to help us find the card and to help me pass the test. Looking forward to posting the results and pictures:))).