After more than 6 years living in this house we never put together the baldaquin part of our bed.   

Last night, hubby left with a friend to go fish.   This morning, I decided that I would look the pieces to see if I could finish to put the bed together.    I knew I had all the posts and the other pieces but some posts had screws at both end and others didn't...  MmmmM!    I figure it out!    I put everything together but when the time to put the metal siding I was missing the screws for them.    Well... well... where could they be???

I checked the box where hubby leaves all the screws... not there.    Then I thought of a box in a hallway closet close to our room.   What is inside this box?   So I checked it out...  Found some stuff to sell in a garage sale and one or two things to keep.    Then a plastic bag which was written Master Bedroom.   In the bag there is screws and others few things.   Eureka!   Found the little screws... well one is missing somehow.   But I was able to finish the job.   Took me 2 hours by myself but I think it will be a nice surprise when hubby comes later today.

I'm proud of myself... but tired though.  It doesn't helpo when you have kids getting up at 530am.   Arg!

This week, we are distributing over 2000 bibles and something like close to 10000 invitations for our church!   All with the help of Power Plant .    We are very grateful to the team of 6 that came down from Toronto.

To read more about this adventure in our church planting process check out the blog at heatworshiphouse.blogspot.com - sweet things are happening not only on the street but in the team too!

Oh - and someone told my husband that he was doing child labor because our 7 year old was helping today (and he asked to come - we didn't forced him...).    It takes all sort of people to make our world!

10 years ago on this special day, I married the man of my life.    Today we were planning to either go fishing and then supper at a restaurant and a movie or planning to see three movies (depending of the weather) but my mother-in-law couldn't move last night so we scratched the day part of it...   We do have friends coming to babysit tonight so we will go see a movie....  Now we just have to decide between Indiana Jones, Prince Caspian and Speed Racer. MmmmM!

Besides, we are not ready for THE trip yet.   Clothes are prepared... but not in the trailer.   So we will do this today I guess.   We also need to cut the kids' hair...  and I need to get a refresh cut for me.   

This morning our 2 year old got up again at 5:30ish....  Why in the wolrd would he get so early these days?  I wonder.   If only he could sleep until 630 or so....    I guess I needed to update this blog before leaving.

Tomorrow we will celebrate our nephew's birthday and we do have a H.E.A.T. service in the evening.

My 2 year old is a goofball... but I love him to pieces.   Only problem I wish he would sleep in the morning...   *sigh*

In a week tomorrow,we will drive in the sun and go travel for a month.   Yeah!   I can't wait to see Pennsylvania and bring my kids to various special places.

On the Monday, we will visit Easton and the crayola factory and Nazareth with the guitar factory.   Fun!  That evening we will meet with Joshua from Club Worship and chat with him.  Later that week, hubby will gowith our team to an event at Club Worship.  

So if you happen to read this, please pray for safety on the road and that the kids won't get to cranky on the long days of travel we will do....   About 4 or 5 so far ranging from 3 1/2 hours to 8 hours the first day.   Driving to PA will be the longest one.    The PA to MA, MA to ME, ME to NB, NB to PEI...   Then there will be the drive back.

The trailer is now on the street right now.   Hopefully, we won't get a neighbor who will complain and then we get a ticket...   

I'm totally pumped for vacation time.

Oh BTW Alexandre officially finished school grade 1 last Friday morning.   Yeah!

Mmmm!   Where to start?   I was planning to finish school last week but there is still about  40 pages to do in one French workbook.   Have I misjudge?   Not really.   We had appointment this past week and somehow we were not able to finish.   I am confident that this will be done this week.    On the other hand we did finish the workbook of English...  Yeah!  

On Friday afternoon, we decided to drive to Logos Land Resort to finish prepping the trailer for our BIG trip.    We needed to figure out how to level it and stabilize it.   Boy did it took some time.   I most say my kids where really good at being patient - thanks for Adventures in Odyssey.    We slept there... and came back the next day because we had a H.E.A.T. service on Saturday.   At first it was only us and a couple from our team.   So Rob had decided not to preach his sermon and keep it for the service in two weeks.  Then another team member came - he just came back from a mission trip in Guatemala.  So he told us about the trip.   By this time two gentlemen were sitting and listening.   Hubby and a team member went to speak with them.   Suddenly, our dear pastor from our mother church arrived.   He came as promised...  fresh from Virginia and leaving soon for Cochrane, AB.   He had went to a church planting conference and he shared what he learned there.   WoW!   Can't wait to hear more when he gets the DVDs.

All the while I was experiencing with colors...   You see I discovered something hidden in me - drawing/painting.   So yesterday I was drawing with pastels.    I did two different art pieces.    Two weeks ago I did another one.  

Also these days I am experiencing with hair fashion.   My hair is getting longer and I can now put little things in it.   I am having fun.   My latest addition is the famous b-tube from The Bay that has been created for the canadians athletes while they go to the Olympics in China.    You can do various things with it which is interesting.  

AND I am starting to plan for the trip - clothes wise...   Next week-end we are bringing back the trailer with us.... 

- to open our trailer...  only 3 days left.

- for Jasmine to be 5 months.... only 5 days left.

- to celebrate our 10th anniversary....  only 23 days left

- to go on VACATION!!!....   only 25 days left.

- to celebrate Alexandre's 7th birthday....   only 42 days left.

Time goes by fast... Unbelievable.    I still need to find some camping ground for stop we will make on the way.

In PA, we will visit Heidi and her family , go to Lancaster, Hershey, Philadelphia, Easton for the Crayola factory,... and hubby will go to Club Worship in Reading to check it out.  Oh!  And I also want to see an Amish farm and house.   I'm fascinated by their simple life.

After some fun time in PA, we will drive to Massachussetts...  direction Plymouth where the first Pilgrims arrived and where the First thanksgiving happened.   I am fortunate to have found a book on Squanto and I am planning to talk about with the kids.   Fun.  We are also planning to go to Boston.

From there, we will drive to Maine and visit some childhood places I went.    York with the GoldenRod store where you see salt water taffy being done (I told hubby that we need to stop there for the kids!!!), Kennebunkport, Kittery and Freeport...   Pantagonia store here I come... LOL

From there, we will drive to NB.   We are planning to stop around Saint-John for a few days...   Then we will drive to PEI.   I would like to drive around the island and see the potato museum, lighthouses, Anne's of Green Gables, Souris,...  try Malpeque oysters - mmm not sure I will like but I will try, celebrate Alexandre's birthday on the island, go to the CCSB conference in Charlottetown.

Then it will be the drive home.    Home sweet home.  I wonder how we will stand the one month trip.   Surely hope we will enjoy it - even with 4 kids.  I am packing a box of books and things like that for the trip to keep them busy.  

It might be our first and last trip with the trailer - with the gas prices going up like they are...   We shall see how much it will cost us.   We will keep track of it.  Oh man!   I can't wait to discover new places with my kids.   Hopefully we will be done school by then!   I'm confident we can make it.   My deadline of this week might be tight but next week... we should be done.   Yeah!

Yep!  My house is a construction zone these days.   It will be a week tomorrow since it's started.   I'm a bit sick of hammer and saw but it has to be done... so I suck it up!  

It is taking shape though....  Love it!   Can't wait to have the walls all done.   We will have an extra bedroom, an office area, a rec room, a bathroom and closets as well as storage.   One specific storage will be for the comic collection we have.    There is a wall next to it...  Might ask my father-in-law to paint it white so I can paint some heroes on it...   It's tempting.  Will I have the patience though?  

Then when this is done... Rob will bring back his office downstairs.   The old room of Alexandre and Dominic will become my office which means I need to get the walls painted...    Mmmm!   Then even though their clothes will stay there as well as their desks, my office will go up and I will have a scrapbooking area.   Yeah!

Once my office is upstairs, my actual office will become the schoolroom...   Painting again here!   Maybe convincing the hubby that a wood floor be nice - especially for crafting time.

I'm excited about it - even though I feel extra tired lately.   

Then when all this is done... maybe we could paint the dining room...   probably not this year but a girl can dream no?

We needed a place to eventually do some training and other kind of meeting for our church...  We are renting the basement of a church downtown our city and it's great but if we want to do some team training, well... we had nothing.

And as a business, we have many contracts going on this year (compared to last year that is...) and we were planning to pay off some debt to be more free.

Well, God put the training area in our hearts...  and we prayed about it.   Bottom line is that we do have an unfinished basement.   Soooooo..........    we are finishing the basement.    Debt is particially paid, the rest can wait a bit.    Hubby and his father will work on the basement.   Nothing fancy. 

We will have a bathroom, an office for hubby, an extra bedroom and a rec room which can be transformed in an office area for the employee when needed or a training area for church.  We will also have a wall dedicated to the comics we owe!

Now, I need to pick some colors for the walls as my mother-in-law will keep an eye open on sale or the kind of situation that someone ordered a color and didn't like it...   I'm not picky - really.   Even though I want something that I would like.  

I need a break!   Badly!   Need a break from life in general but also from school...

Too muhc is going on these days and I can't wait to take the trailer and drive to PA.   Soon....  like in two months from now.   Can't wait to see PA and Lancaster and also my friend HEIDI...  It has been since 2003 since we saw each other in Buffalo, NY.   First time we saw each other.   And we had fun.   Our families connected well.   This time,  we have four kids and she has three.  

Then either we drive back home for a week or we drive up the coast to go to PEI.   Why PEI?   Because the CCSB convention will be in Charlottetown this year.   And to top it off, it is an anniversary in PEI for Anne of Green Gables.   Never went to PEI either.   So this year I am going to two places where I want to go.   If I'm lucky, maybe I can go check Hopewell Rocks in NB while driving to PEI.

I can't wait to see my kids jumping in salty water.  It will be a first for them.   Cool!   It will be relaxing... 

We are currently thinking of putting a DVD player in the truck.   We are waiting to see if a sale will come or not.   We are in no rush whatsoever.   For the amount of driving we will do I think this is a wise investment to keep our sanity...

So now, I need to sit down and check out the place where we can camp in PA.  We already have our place booked for PEI.  The rest, depending of what we are doing, will be on the go.

You are probably why I linked the Great Commission with a nose story... Let me tell you.

Yesterday morning at 5:30 am  (EST) my daughter Jasmine was crying.  So I get out of bed to give her the soother. But then I decided to go to the bathroom before...   I'm a mom since almost  7 years and I woke up often in the night for various reasons I never had to walked around with my hands in front of me.   NEVER!   But that morning somehow I wasn't following the path and BAM!  I hit the door frame with the nose.   OUCH!   I was in pain - yelled - hubby jump out of bed asking me what happened and if I was hurt... I say "Ice Pack, Ice Pack, Ice Pack!"   Off he goes and come back with three...  LOL  While he is gone I am unsure if I broke the nose or not, if I am bleeding or not, but MAN does it hurt.   You wouldn't believe this for a nose but it does....

Thankgoodness for the ice pack, I think I got the swelling down... but this morning it's bruised slightly.   Cute nose job really!   Light purple and still sore.   Oh well!

But yesterday was a special day for us - we were to be commissioned with our team for H.E.A.T. in our home church - Sequoia Community Church.   So you can imagine what was going through my head when the nose story happened.   Fortunately, I didn't have to go to the hospital. 

So we came to church early since Rob was speaking yesterday - giving the H.E.A.T. story to the congregation.  Two of our team members came and gave some testimonies.   The church prayed for us and off we go to plant in two weeks.   Two weeks before the first service...   Twice a month for three months and then weekly.   WoW!  Time flies fast.

Emotional day for me yesterday... I'm leaving a church family that I love and care for...  Mind you I know I have another church family already with the team but still it's hard to cut the ombilical cord.

To announce the birth of H.E.A.T. we had asked Pastor Rick to become "pregnant" and similate a birth.  Under his shirt - a pillow with the H.E.A.T. t-shirt.   The congregation loved it!    Symbolizing the conception, creation and birth of H.E.A.T.  It was original...  Hey  he made a sermon in a baby outfit a while back why not having him a birth???  LOL

For those of you who want to follow our journey with H.E.A.T., please check out the H.E.A.T. blog.