2009 Halloween photos

I have finally posted some photos of the boys from Halloween. Hope you enjoy!!

Snow is finally here and we are all very excited. Everyone is doing well.

Blessings,
Lela

In the office...

Scott and I have started working in the CEF office this week. So far we have been in training. We are excited to be able to ministry as a family. Everyone here is such a joy to work with. What a blessing from God to be able to work for our King and love what we are doing.

The boys are doing very well. Scott, Shaughn and myself all received our Alaska driver's license this week and Matthew has been studying hard to take the test as well. He will be getting his driver's permit. He can't wait. :-)

Nathaniel and Jeremiah joined Awana's last night and seem to like it alot. Scott has started unpacking some of his many books into the CEF office. He requested more book shelves and they were happy to fulfill the order. :-)

Someone has blessed us with the use of a car until we can find one to purchse. They keep it for missionaries to use that come in from the bush. What a blessing. God has just been providing so much.

We appreciate your prayers and your notes. God bless you!
Lela

In Soldotna, AK!!

We have made it!! We arrived here about 6:15 p.m. (Alaska time) last night. We arrived in town just in time to make it to a teen training time at church, so our first stop was Soldotna Bible Chapel where we received a huge welcome. We were tired and felt like we had been traveling all day (ha ha) but the huge welcome was a great treat. We came to Steve and Bev McKinley's house (State Director of CEF) and ate ice cream and talked about our journey. They have asked us to stay with them for the first week so we can have time to unwind, sort stuff and get settled and meet Lee.

We can't wait to meet Lee. We hope to connect with him today and meet. CEF is having a Pie Auction tonight as a fund raiser and everyone is very excited that we made it in time for this annual event.

I have woke up at 3 a.m. yesterday and today, so I am doing laundry and blogging while Scott and the boys are asleep. I grabbed Scott's computer to use since mine has been dead since before the trip.

Thank you all for your prayers and comments. Yes, we do read them all. :-) God bless you and more to come...photos too! :-)

Lela

We made it!!!!!

We are in Soldotna Alaska! We made it. Hopefully tomorrow we will get some pictures posted!!!

It was so nice to make the final stretch from Anchorage to Soldotna. It felt like we were going home!!!

Good night all!!!

We are in Alaska!

We have had no internet or cell phone connection for several evenings! We stayed in Watson Lake BC two nights ago, and then Haines Junction last night. We are in Glenn Allen Alaska tonight at the Caribou Hotel. We saw many Caribou, Moose, and Elk along the way in BC, The Yukon, and then in Alaska. We will try to get some pictures up soon!

We plan on being in Soldotna tomorrow evening!

Everything mechanical has been great!!!

More later...I am tired!

peace,

And on the 8th day...Fort Nelson, BC

Well Happy Thankgiving! It is Thanksgiving here. Or... "The Long weekend". We spent it driving through extreme snow storms, and through three huge mountain passes. One had a 10% grade. I am very thanful that we made it safely. We saw one truck pulling a u-haul trailer that had flipped on it's side.

Gas and groceries are Definitely getting more expensive! I just paid $1.19/ liter! OUCH!!!!

We are in Fort Nelson tonight, and plan on making Watson Lake tomorrow. Although, not many options for staying the night there.

On to Whitehorse the next night, and then TOK, AK!!!! WooHoo!!!!

Blessings all!

Grande Prairie Alberta and our first blow out

Today we planned a "light" 288 miles today and 5 hrs plus stops. All was going very well. I was even getting 6.5 mpg rather than the 5 I had been getting due to the winds. The GPS just showed we had 59 minutes left, and I started to call Lela and BAM, whap, whap, whao, whap!!!! The passenger side inside tire blew! So we called U-Haul and 2 hours and 25 minutes later Andy from Fontaine Tire showed up to change the tire. He put a sweet Good Year tire that actually had tread rather than the highway tires that were on it. I wish he would have change all 4 of the mains!

Well, I sent Lela and the boys ahead of me so they could get some grub and get settled. Shaughn and I made it to the hotel at 8:30pm, ate some food, changed into our swim suits and enjoyed the water slide.

We may chill tomorrow. It is their Thanksgiving here and Sunday on top of that. Probably not much open! We are over half way now. About 1600 miles to Anchorage.

I will post more pictures in a minute.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!