It's Been Awhile

We've been lazy with the family blog over the summer. There should be some pictures up here eventually of Elijah and Brady riding bikes or maybe some of us at camp. Anyway, how about a short update for now.

After the July holidays we relaxed as best we could in the Caronport heat. It is a pretty lonesome town these days, but the neighbors have a pool, and Jon got lots of work done on his last 2006-2007 class, preached twice in Moose Jaw toward the end of the month, and prepared for a camp speaking engagement. Angie's gardening prowess has produced a flourish of tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, and so on.

We just finished this AWANA camp near Elk Point, Alberta, and it was 7 days with 100 people between grade 6 and 12 as well as another 30 or so staffers. It was a different sort of camp in that it was a scholarship camp, which meant mostly the best of the best AWANAers were there, which meant that it was largely a "discipleship" camp. The boys came with us and we stayed in an 18 foot trailer all together until Grandma and Grandpa Zed took them on the weekend, leaving us to finish off ourselves. All in all it went pretty well. We took the boys canoeing for the first time, and Angie found the camper that has always been inside of her. Jon survived.

Now that all of that is done, we're kicking back in the Edmonton area for a couple days before the 2007-2008 school year gets going. This coming semester, whilst working away at his thesis Jon will also be taking (and helping with) a literature class on GK Chesterton and also taking two classes in October: "Life in the Mess: The Theology of Forgiveness and Reconciliation"; and "The Reformation Era".

At church Angie will be helping with Children's Church and Jon will teach Sunday School again. We also will both be on the upstart Social Justice and Action Committee at our church. Elijah will hopefully be in preschool and both he and Brady look forward to hanging out with their friends again. As do we.

That's about where it is at these days. Thanks for checking in.