Boxing day..

Well we had a lovely Christmas.

There was some question as to whether or not Santa would find us up here in the mountains but we were so very lucky and everyone got spoiled.

It's boxing day today and I'm staying with the kiddos while Wayne is back to work and Jill and her sister Becca are out trying to find Boxing Day bargains.

Posting a few pics of the kids from the past few days. Jill and Shaya playing with Shaya's 3D Nintendo... uhhh well Jill seems to enjoy it. Rylie snacking by the tree and then enjoying the snow on the deck on Xmas Day.

Jill, Wayne, Shaya, and Becca went tubing on the ski hill in the afternoon and then we enjoyed a great turkey dinner Xmas nite.

It's a great spot out here. Wish Jewels were with us but it wasn't meant to be this time around.

Life is good. Merry Christmas to all.

Driving west for Xmas...

After a stop in Edmonton to help in production of another 700 tonnes of EZ Street as well as a very nice few days visiting with Nikki and Jesse, I hit the road throught the mountains to the west coast.

I admit I was a bit apprehensive about road conditions and it turned out to be quite icy. I guess icy relates to pretty as the scenery was gorgeous. Snow and ice on the trees (as well as the road) and a wrong turn which added about 300 extra km to the drive proved to be interesting as well as somewhat challenging.

A nice 2 day drive and a relief to pull into Courtenay to start my visit with the kids.

Life is Good!!!

Nice little story in the Free Press today....

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER... Last weekend a first-year student in residence at Canadian Mennonite University was admitted to hospital with an irregular heartbeat.

Then his heart stopped.

It took time but eventually he was revived, placed on a heart machine and then he underwent an emergency procedure. It's a surgery that, if it failed, meant a heart transplant was the only option. But what adds to the story of one student struggling for his life is what the other students and the university did. Sunday evening, they began gathering for prayer vigils at the residence hall.

Monday afternoon, the prayer vigil went campus-wide. And in the evening, they gathered again to pray for their fellow student.

At last report, the student came through the surgery successfully, is breathing on his own and his parents are with him.

Oh, there's one more thing.

Because of the prayer vigils, CMU, in the person of academic vice-president Earl Davey, extended the deadline for course papers by nearly two days. How many other Canadian universities would do that?

Pray tell.

Life is Good....