December to February Photos

Here a some pictures from the last few months, mostly of the kids just because they love having their pictures taken. Enjoy.

 

 Mckaleigh chillin' in the sled

 

 Naturally Joelle and Liam wanted a turn too :)

 

 Loving the Bumbo (We are now beyond the Bumbo, she can scoot across the floor by using her feet to move herself around!)

 

 All dressed up for the staff Christmas party

 

 Our new favorite costume! Joelle the Hulk. She informed us one day while wearing this costume that she is going to rescue people and sometimes Batman helps her!

 

 Christmas treats from our friends in Germany we miss so much!

 

 Mckaleigh found her hair twin!!

 

 At the Royal Alberta Museum, these two LOVE their dinosaurs!

 

 Big tree!

 

 Mckaleigh taking it all in

 

 The coolest rock in the museum, a big meteor you can touch. The kids just loved it 

 Our Liam...

 

 

These next photos are from an open house we held at camp for people to come and try out the ice wall and just see what we are about.

 

 Silas

 

 Mckaleigh and her rock climbing helmet

 

 Joelle and Liam had a blast, the had people drag them around on the ice for hours

 Joelle demonstrating how to cook a hot dog. Mini master chef

 

 Using her new skis Joelle is a natural!

 

 Liam on  the other had had a hard time understanding what the poles were for.... This ended in a lot of falling on his butt

 

 So proud he is skiing

 

 Skiing like a Pro

 

 One of my favorite pictures of our girls

 

 Liam LOVES my running shoes

 

 The only toy she cries when it is taken away, her baby doll

 

 Showing off her crazy hair after it is washed and before her toque flattens it

Liam and Joelle taking their babies to the Lodge for lunch. Liam LOVES his baby Price

Cabin Photos

 

I am so sorry about taking so long to post these photos of the cabin project. They are almost done!! well the inside is almost done, the building inspector is looking over the cabins this afternoon and if it all ok the staff can be moving in very soon! This is really exciting to have two of the three cabins completed. Enjoy the photos and I'll post a few more once they are complete and being moved into!

 



More Updates on Sonja's mom

Thank you all so much for praying for my mom. The majority of her blisters have healed up and is now new skin that is sensitive and sometimes breaks open. There is one blister area on her hip that looks like it is infected. She is going to the doctor tonight to have it looked at and hopefully they will give her something to help fight the infection.

Update on Sonja's mom

I talked my mom last night and was happy to hear that she is doing better! She is still uncomfortable and in a fair bit of pain but she is shaking less. Most of the blisters have popped now and are beginning to heal up. Her nurse she had for her last bandage change was surprised at how well she is healing considering she is diabetic.  There is  no signs of infection which is a huge answer to prayer and a blessing for my mom. Praise God he is answering prayer! Her bandage changes are now only taking 30 minutes instead of the 45 minutes they were taking at the beginning. The nurse mentioned that if she continues to heal with no infections most of her burns should be healed up in another week, and sensitive for a while after that. Thank you all for praying for my mom it means a lot to me and my mom to know that we have people surrounding her in prayer. I will keep you updated on how she is doing.

Prayer Request

On Wednesday night my mom was folding laundry and caught her night gown on fire from a candle that was on the coffee table. She is ok but burned the left side of her body before she got the night gown off and fire out. She was home alone for a hour before my younger sister came home and took her to the hospital. She has burns to about 50% of her body that was covered by her night gown. First degree burns over most of it with large patches of second degree burns under her arm and armpit, up her leg, butt, her side and some on her stomach. Her left hand also has burns on her palm and a few fingers. She is diabetic which could cause the healing process to be slow and higher chances of infections. She went to her family doctor yesterday and her doctor has referred her to a would dressing clinic where nurses will change her dressings daily. It is a blessing she is ok and her house did not burn. She is thinking positively and resting uncomfortably at home. Prayer for her would be appreciated. Thank you.

Wonderful New Year

We have celebrated our first anniversary of being here at Frontier Lodge. It is amazing how fast one year can go by. We have experienced some incredible blessings over the last year.

 Our beautiful Mckaleigh full of smiles and giggles blessed our family in July. We are enjoying being a family of 5 and still facing the challenges of Joelle and Liam sharing a bedroom until Mckaleigh is big enough to share  bunk bed and Liam will then have his own bedroom. Praying that Joelle and Mckaleigh sharing a room will go better than it has been with Liam and Joelle.

Another big blessing has been the selling of our house in Lacombe, what a bitter sweet feeling that was. Selling the house closed that chapter in our life for good, it was a bit tough at first, it was our first home and we brought Joelle and Liam to that home. Troy and I spent many hours ripping apart things to renovate and turn something that was outdated into a more functional modern space. I hope the people that now own that home are enjoying it as much as we did. Thank you all for praying with over the selling of the house, God's timing was perfect.

In the spring there was a wildfire that was burning really close to the camp, it was God alone that kept the camp and Nordegg from burning. It was a bit intense living on evacuation notice and not knowing if you were going to be leaving at any moment. Joelle and Liam still look for the helicopters that filled up daily at our lake and flew over our house. We also we blessed with tons of rain not long after the fire was put out, those rains did bring flooding to lots of Alberta but saturated the extremely dry ground and prevented more fires from starting up after the fire was put out.

Our Christmas was spent with sick children that ended up with a trip to the Children's Stollery Hospital in Edmonton. After having 5 sleepless nights and Liam not getting better. Joelle ended up having a throat infection and Liam had croup. It is such a blessing to have the amazing pediatric doctors that really love their jobs and care about the kids they are seeing. Since it was boxing day we were in there the blessed our children with Christmas gifts they played with for the rest of the holidays. Only Troy and Mckaleigh escaped being sick this holiday.

These are just a few things that come to my mind as I think of the last year, we were blessed to meet some really amazing people who worked here and have gone home. We will miss them dearly and hold them in our hearts.

We have been blessed above and beyond anything we had imagined when we quit both our jobs and moved out here following the calling of God. Thank you all for your support both financially and in prayer. Both are invaluable to us as a family. Thank you.

We are so excited for this next year and the many adventures and blessings it is going to bring to our family.

A little post about cabins and life

As Christmas is just around the corner I realise I have not blogged this past month, it seems like time has just flown by me! The cabins are coming along. The roofing has been put on all 3 cabins, and they have been wrapped up in Tyvec to help keep them from the elements. The windows are in and doors on, which is good on the really cold days to keep the wind out. Electrical has been roughed in to two of the cabins and plumbing is going in the cabins now. They are starting drywall soon in one of the cabins while the other one continues to have the plumbing worked on. There is a big group scheduled in for the end of January which requires the use of all camper cabins we have, including the two cabins that are currently temporary housing for staff as they wait for the cabins to be completed to move in stage. With -37 weather for almost a week it slowed down progress a bit, it is a bit tough to work when it is so cold out. A few prayer requests concerning the cabins would be that weather cooperates so work can be as productive as possible and that donations continue to come in to cover the cost of building these cabins.

We had an interesting Saturday a few weekends ago. The power went out in the morning to the whole Nordegg area and we were without power for 5 hours with -32 outside. We spent the morning under a duvet and playing forts to try and keep Liam and Joelle warm, Mckaleigh slept most of the morning bundled up in her snowsuit, toque and mittens. The house was chilly but not as cold as outside. Tory and some of the other guys worked hard to get the generator going to run power to the lodge to prevent the waterlines from freezing since all our waterlines run through that building. They came up with a system to rotate power to the houses for 1 hour at a time and switch, the whole time running power to the lodge. As they were about to set that plan into motion the power was back on to the whole camp. I was so thankful for the power company crew that worked hard to find the problem and fix it.

 

Pictures of the progress on the cabins to follow soon!