A hodge podge of recent events

Where to start, I guess the beginning would work. So I think it would be fare to say that the past couple weeks have thrown some bends in the road. The first surprise to grace my ears with its presence was that my daddy has to go in for open heart surgery.He needs to have a valve replaced and they want to do it sooner then later for a couple reasons. First, overall he's pretty healthy and it's obviously better to do these things when you're healthy and Second the lucky guy is taking his music classes to Italy in the spring. And just to clear things up, he's lucky because he gets to go to Italy not because he has to have heart surgery.Anyways, apparently it's not that serious of a procedure but come on, its heart surgery, that's a pretty important organ. He's been on the Hospital since Sunday having some test done and it ends up that he also has a lung infection. Please keep him in your prayers

Sunday was a busy day at the KGH because my dear friend Melissa's husband also was taken in . Matt sufers from colitis, but there are some other pretty serious things going on. I can't share to much but he's not doing to well and he will probably be there for a while. Please also keep Matt and Melissa in your prayers. I so easy it is to take our health for grantit and it's hard to understand what my mom and Melissa are going through.

Switching gears a bit, I'm been working for Joel's family business for the past year as a receptionist and as great as they've been to work for and as generious as they have been to us I've really been craving a job that challenges me more and has a place for further learning. I had applied at this paricular dental office and was feeling really encouraged and then found out today that they gave the postion to someone with past experience. I totally understand there decision but it's still hard to take. When I moved to saskatoon I figured that going back to school wouldn't be such a big deal, however, much to my dismay I've discovered that the programs I was interested in are not offered here and I'd have to go to Regina in order to take them. This doesn't exactly work for us. However, on an exciting note Joel got in to Carpentry and because he's been working under a journeyman carpenter he will be credited for all his hours which will make the program shorter. Either way, whether the program is 4 years or less he's so excited which makes me happy. He's always wanted to build a house for us and our babies (eventual babies that is) and he's so happy that'll he'll be able to do that. We're praying about starting our house next year but in the mean time we've been blessed with a great home.