are we there yet??

i'm wondering if when i titled my blog a long time ago it became a prophecy or if that's just the way it has been..and the title is just fitting...you know??
our plans are more concrete now but have changed again...here is the plan right now....who knows things could change, but at least for now they seem pretty set...
so , we will still go to wisconsin for october....hang out with my parents...let my dad hang out with his new grandson for awhile....then wewill make scotland home for a little while...mike has been offered a job by his dad to set up an ebay store for him...so that will give us something to do, help us make a bit of money ( means i don't have to work ) and then we can apply for mike's visa while we are there....so we'll still be in wisconsin for christmas but we'll spend a few months in scotland, so after christmas we'll probably go back and once we get mike's visa, we'll come back and finally be ready to live in the states....
it's not exactly what we had in mind when we thought of leaving canada, but there are many positives and we are actually looking forward to it....

so we have two days left here, head for seattle, where i fly home and mike and his dad and wife drive all of our stuff back to wisconsin. so when i get home, i'll be picked up by my brother and dad and they'll get to hang out with kael, we are all looking forward to it.

here's some pics of jamie and kael hanging out....he looks so cool in his shades that mr and mrs church gave him.

Kael's first party

Well, i'm sorry i haven't updated in awhile..for those of you who weren't there.....on Thursday night there was a Welcome To the World party for Kael...hosted by our lovely ywam friends. It was a great night, I personally felt really blessed, as i know mike did as well...and one day i think Kael will too...of course it was nice to see everyone, to have dinner together, lovely to have people hold kael and think he's so cute, and then my favorite was when Don and Gwen led a prayer time for kael, they annointed him with oil and prayed over him. And there were prayers as well that we would know God's love as we are on this journey of being parents, and i know it gives you such a different perspective and we are just at the beginning of this 'parenting' thing. We both felt really blessed by the time, i was reminded that these people really are my family, they have been with me through so much, through singleness, through getting married and that whole journey, and then through my pregnancy....major life changes. and it's nice to be 'known' in those different times.....

life changes

well.....it's almost been three weeks since kael was born. life changes fast. i still can't believe i'm a mom, it's a bit surreal still....i think with all the unknowns of our future it's hard to feel as if we can really settle into a routine. i just realized that we leave in 2 1/2 weeks. it's going to come fast, that's for sure....it is coming fast. i'll give you a bit of an update on our lives.....well it's harder to get Mike a US Visa than we originally thought, and since our Visa here in Canada is up this month, and we aren't staying with YWAM< so we can't get it renewed, we have to leave the country. We should be gone already but it was unrealistic with having the baby ..so october 1st we definitely have to be out of here. But now since it's harder than we realized for Mike to get a visa, well it just takes longer than we thought, so we have to be careful crossing the border, so that he doesn't get rejected and worse case scenario we would have to go back to scotland while we apply for his visa, not something i'm wanting to do......but that is worst case scenario..i kind of feel like it will work out, and we have 'friends' helping us out ...friends who have connections. anyways......life is one big adventure with us..it seems like 'home ' is something that is always changing, always moving, but we sitll have each other..our little family if three now.

kael and daddy

8 lbs 11oz

Well our little guy is quite the eater, he has already gained alot of weight..means he's healthy...the midwife came to see both of us today and she thinks we're doing great. He looks healthy, my incision is healing well. we're doing well as a family. still tired though...adjusting to littler amounts of sleep....and i'm pretty much a homebody..and since we've had lots of visitors it's wearing me out..so if your one of those in town still waiting to see us and we don't return your phone calls or tell you not today, please do not take it personal.....we are very tired from all the visits....we have appreciated so much though everyone's attention and love and food....it means alot that we have such a great community of people here. we are still in awe of our little guy, he's too cute!!!
we think so at least. :)