linking up

I just added a link to a blog that Vanessa and I have been reading for about a month now. It's called "stuff christians like" by Jon Acuff. Not sure if you have heard of him or not, but he's funny nonetheless.

Sunday updates

This past week has been super busy. A couple of night shifts on the ambulance at UBC started the week off. I don't really understand the purpose of a 14 hour shift, but there are many things that I don't understand about BCAS. I have spent a good portion of the minimal free time I've had this week trying to re-equip our computer after having to strip it of all of it's info due to a virus we picked up. The programs got back to 2005 basics, and most of our info was wiped. I managed to save some of the pics pre-wipe, which is kind of nice. I haven't been able to get the itunes repopulated from the ipod though, and I'm not sure if I will be able to or not. I think there is some sort of security feature on there that only lets you upload music that you have purchased from itunes. Most of our close to 1000 songs were from cd's though, so I will need to do some research on how to make that work.
We have a laptop now too, which makes dual-computering at home a bit easier now. The sore throat that I thought I had kicked from 2 weeks ago came roaring back last night at work, and I almost lost my voice. Trying to keep quiet today to make sure it is ready for work again tomorrow.
Christmas is fast approaching, and thanks to my amazing wife, we are almost totally ready for it. Hoo-ray! We are heading out to the annual Christmas Dessert Theatre tonight, which should be awesome. My brother is performing in it this year, and I am excited to see what his first on-stage performance will look like. Time for a rest now before the next busy week starts up.

snow day!

Um, picture day came and went. Life got busy, and then I got sick. Then it snowed!

I have a video that I have been trying to upload of the kids playing in the snow, but for some reason it seems to be fighting with me. We made a small snow ramp at the top of the small hill in the front yard, and the kids spent almost 2 hours sliding down over and over again. Even after so many years of having kids, it still amazes me how sometimes the most simple things can entertain for so long when you are a kid. A grown up would have looked at this ramp and hill and surely scoffed, and muttered how it wasn't much of a hill at all to be sledding on. It was cool to be reminded of the innocence of children that Jesus must have been referring to when he speaks of them so fondly.

Picture day

This is it. The last day of calm before the flurry of work, ambulance shifts and more work. Packed in throughout will also have to be studying for a class 4 license and the ensuing tests involved. Also, the application for paramedic license testing, and month worth of studying that will be involved in getting ready for that exam. Oh, lets not forget the Christmas season creeping up on us too (It's almost November!)
Let the calm begin...after we finish getting 4 kids ready for school and school picture day, and drop them off at said school*.


*yes, we still homeschool. The school that we are registered with has a resource class on Fridays, and they are doing picture day today. Hoo-ray!