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Jun 25th 2010EileenWeekly Updates
This past week we had a lovely time in Winona, MN visiting with many old friends and meeting new ones.
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Christmas
Jun 25th 2010EileenWeekly Updates
This Christmas we have had the wonderful blessing of returning to Ottawa for Christmas. We flew out of London on the morning of the 24th, we were a bit nervous as many airports were experiencing delays because of the snow. Our flight did leave on time and we even arrived into New Jersey earlier and then after leaving on time again arrived into Ottawa early.
Team
Jun 25th 2010EileenWeekly Updates
Our team had our annual team retreat May 31st-June 4th in Wales at the Cilcoed Christian Centre. This is the centre that we used last year also and we were excited to go back. We were blessed with beautiful weather and amazing views, we could really ask for more but we recieved so much more…..
The GreenTree team joined us at the retreat to host our team. 7 church members including one of their pastors flew over from New Jersey and worked to amazing standards on our behalf for the week.
Kappy, Dave & Denis worked as the cooking team. They prepared amazing food, not only did we eat well but possibly too well!!! We were spoiled with delicious meals and wonderful treats. It didn’t seem to matter what time of the day you went into the kitchen there was atleast one of the team working on some part of our next meal. Coffee was kept hot, fresh and consant…. we were truly spoiled!!!
Eileen, Kelly & Ruth worked with the children. Each morning
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Mar 22nd 2010EileenWeekly Updates
Well, it seems like life is continually moving forward at a steady pace. We are all doing well and keeping busy. The weather is finally looking like we might get spring which would be great.
The kids are all still enjoying School. Caleb and Eden are both still in Christ Church and enjoying it but, Caleb is very exciting to have been offered a place at his first preference for high school and will be starting at Twyford High School in September. Eden will stay at the Junior school as she is still in year 4. Nathan is currently at the infand school St.Saviors, he is in year 2 and thinks his teacher is great. In September he will move up to the Junior school.
Eden is still enjoying learning the Violin and will have her first concert in a week. She is practicing a lot for it! I will try to upload a video of the concert if all goes well.
Nathan is learning the Recorder. At his school in year 2 everyone learns how to play it, he is also practicing a lot so as you can imagine there are lots of fun mini-concerts at our house.
All 3 of the kids are enjoying Ice Hockey in Slough. We go each Wednesday afternoon with another family so it turns into a full evening and the kids look forward to it all week. You will find some pics of their ice hockey on our photo’s page. I will try to add more soon. They also all enjoy playing Street Hockey on a Saturday morning. Last week Caleb and Eden even made it into the local paper…. they were very excited.
We would love to hear how you are doing… just drop us an email.
Thank
Feb 13th 2010EileenWeekly Updates
It seems like in the past few weeks we have sent out a few prayer requests for friends and family that we felt needed much prayer. It is so easy to forget to let you know how things turn out. I was very excitedto recieve the information below that we wanted to share it with you.
Shiloh Hache
Thank you for praying. Shiloh’s levels (not to sure what they were measuring I think it was the bilirubin in her blood) went up to 18 and couldn’t go past the mid 20s or brain damage would happen, but praise God her levels are coming down. Jason called my aunt (his mother) at 2 a.m. and said the level was 14 and then this morning at 9 a.m. it was 10 and she will not have to have a blood transfer or transfusion. If she continues to do well she may be discharged from ICU tonight and maybe sent back to the hospital where she was born tomorrow or Sunday and then maybe home. She still needs to be under a special blanket with special lights for a few days. Please continue to pray for Beka as her body and emotions have been through a lot with her grandpa dying on the day Shiloh was born and everything that has gone on since. They are a bit concerned about postpartum depression, please pray for the Lord to carry her through all this in a healthy way. Jason and the children also need continued prayer and Beka’s mom Brenda as she leaves Tues to go to her Dad’s funeral (she lives in CA and that is also where her father lived). She will fly back for another week and a half to be with Beka and Jason and help as much as she can.
Richard
I should let you know how Richard is. He is home from hospital and seems well. He is booked to have his heart surgery for April 12 and there is much surgery needed. His results from his last angiogram last Friday said his left artery is blocked 70% so he needs to surgery sooner rather than later as his right artery is 100% calcified and his ascending aorta is also quite calcified and he needs a new aortic heart valve. It really sounds overwhelming but I do believe in a God who does miracles and has done in the past and will do so again in the future.
John
Just to keep you updated on John also. His surgery went well and they were able to remove the fluid. He had a quick recovery time in the ICU with no complication and then to the normal ward and home in amazing time. The doctors were able to remove all of the fluid but did find the tumor to be cancerous so he will now have to start an agresive regime of chemo. Please pray that all goes well through this process.
Ice
Jan 31st 2010EileenWeekly Updates
Our kids love hockey which is probably not too abnormal so on Saturday evening we drove to Guildford with a few friends to watch Guilford v Manchester. They all loved the atmosphere in the rink and we were pleased to see that it was packed out. I was a little worried that there would be 20 of us cheering on a team we didn’t really know. Aaron even managed to catch one of the prizes they threw out into the bleachers, it happened to be a Guilford flames jersey that perfectly fit Eden… she was even able to get it signed by 3 guys on the team. Caleb and Nathan both got some of the team to sign team cards.
What a great family outing!!
Caleb
Jan 25th 2010EileenWeekly Updates
We just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who sent greetings and such to Caleb for his birthday. Although his actual birthday was while we were in Canada yesterday (1/24/10). We had a special lunch to celebrate the occasion in England. Caleb enjoyed everyone getting together to celebrate him.
It tooks hours to make all of the pizza dough but, in the end we even had enough left to take two to the Arabic church plant.
Caleb is now 11 and still proving to be a stong, determind child. His favorite subject is still math. He loves Hockey and reading, although his interests seems to be growing as he gets older and developes more opportunities to learn about new things.
This morning it was fun to hear him guiding his younger brother in the right direction. It was clear the situation was not going as planned and we were begining to hear some whinning. Wise words from an older brother calmed the situation down and moved it into a story of thanksgiving before I was able to get in the room to deal with it….. ok, i did wait outside the door to see how it would all pan out. It was great to see that he continues to learn the best way and develope the skills to show it in his own actions as well as help his siblings remember the right thing to do.
Continue to pray that he alwasy desires to seek out the directions God has for him.
Back
Jan 23rd 2010EileenWeekly Updates
So, it is now one week since we returned from our great Christmas/New Years Vacation…… reality is sometimes very hard to throw yourself back into. We made it to church the day after we arrived but then the rest of the week seems to have dragged as we all struggled to fall asleep in the evening and then wake up in the morning. i think or atleast hope that we are all back into normal British time now. I personally thought it was an achievment to make it to school each day one time.
Today a group of new students arrived. Aaron is busy picking them up and sorting there houses. Sunday we will meet some of them and then the rest at their welcome breakfast. Please pray for them as they adjust to life in London and for some of them this will be the first time the have to ‘live’ in a second language.
On Sunday we are having people over to celebrate Caleb’s 11th birthday. it actually happened while we were in Canada but, thought we would recognise it here as well. He is very excited… it isn’t every year you get to have two birthdays.
It looks like i should get back to making pizza dough…. Caleb’s request for his birthday meal!!
Weekend
Sep 7th 2009EileenWeekly Updates
For the last weekend of the Summer we headed off to Edinburgh to visit the Jeffers. They are planning on moving to Arizona for a couple of years so we had to get in our last visit on this side of the water.
We had a wonderful time catching up and the kids all enjoyed playing together. It was pretty interesting with the age range… Caleb 10yrs, Eden 8yrs, Nathan 6yrs, Gabe 4yrs, Elsie 2yrs & Sol 5mo. As you can imagine some of the games couldn’t include them all.
We did a fun castle in East Lothian and then walked through the Fringe festival on our way to the National Museum of Scotland, Aaron, Caleb & Nathan even climbed Arthurs seat in the rain… oh the fun.
The pictures of our weekend are up on the site!!
Isle of Wight
Aug 25th 2009EileenWeekly Updates
Last week we all scooted off to the Isle of Wight for a family vacation camping with some friends. Having never been there and hearing mixed reviews we didn’t really know what to expect. Wanting to get every last minute of holiday time we left the house at 3am to catch the 5am ferry. We arrived so early at the campsite we had to wait a while to set up so not to start off on the wrong foot with our new neighbours.
The weather all week was beautiful and we all had loads of fun. We did a couple of walks, one up the backside of the needles and the other to St.Catherine’s lighthouse. Both beautiful and both completely worth it. We also had many afternoons at the beach, who would have known we were still in the UK with such great weather and wonderful beach’s.
We have uploaded lots of photo’s on the photo page with the link “Isle of Wight”.
