We Love Our Neices and Nephew

One of the highlights of being home is being able to spend more time with our family. We have two nieces, Nola and Hailey, one of Eric's side of the family and one on mine and since August we have a nephew, Blake as well. We have had to much fun being apart of their lives and are so thankful for the time that we get to spend with them.

Home Sweet Home

After a busy week and a half of moving, unpacking and cleaning we are beginning to feel settled in our new home. We still have boxes to unpack and some cleaning that should be done but it now seems that things have a spot and our house is beginning to feel like "our home" instead of just a place that someone else owned and now we live in. At first when we moved in we were both excited to have our own space again and not have to live out of suitcases anymore but the more time we spend in our house we discovered that we really love the house as well. It feels good to be in our house and makes settling back in Canada a lot easier. This picture is from the night we got the keys. I worked all day then went to our school BBQ and then came home to do a little carpet cleaning before we moved everything in on the weekend.

Back to School

We have been back to school for 3 days now and it feels like we have been teaching for weeks already. Eric is busy with his new job as Athletic Director, getting programs set up and becoming familiar with things. He has begun coaching junior and senior girl's basketball so he is keeping himself busy. I have loved being back at my old school and it has been great seeing staff, students and parents from before. I have a great class and have really enjoyed getting to know them over the last couple of days. It has been a challenge teaching a split but so far it has been going pretty good. Teaching grade 5 and 6 has definitely been a change from teaching Nursery but it has been fun teaching an older age group. I miss my cuties from last year though :)

Our House

We are so excited that we found a house! On Friday after looking at about 25-30 different houses we finally found one that we will call our home. It is located very close to the school that I will be teaching at and only 10-15 minutes away from Eric's school. It is a 3 bedroom, end unit town house with updated kitchen, bathrooms, hardwood floors and finished basement. Our closing date is September 16 so we don't have to wait too long to move in.

Back in Canada

Eric and I have been back in Canada for over a week and are enjoying our time at home. Before leaving Prague a good friend told me that we should keep our blog going for the people in Prague to be able to continue to see what is going on in our life. So, I decided at that time that I would put more of an effort into updating this blog more regularly so that whoever is interested can take a look at our blog and get a picture of what is going on in our life.

Coming HOME!!!

Eric and I have been doing a lot of praying to try to figure out where God wants us next year. We love Prague and Riverside (our school) and really enjoy our life here, however we feel that God has other plans for us for next year so we have decided to come home. We really feel at peace with this decision and are excited about coming home. We don't know what God has planned for us as we move back home but are confident that God will open doors for us and that everything will work out.

Portugal and Spain

Over our half term break in October I went on a trip with a good friend, Jen. We traveled around Portugal and Spain enjoyed the beautiful weather, the relaxed atmosphere and different culture. We started off in Lisbon, Portugal where we had so much fun just wondering through the friendly city, then went down to Lagos, Portugal and discovered the lovely beaches there along with the 27 degree weather that we had to enjoy them. Then we headed to Spain and took a long bus ride to Seville, where we saw the Plaza de Espana which was my favourite building of our trip. After that we went to Granada and wondered around the Alhambra and then to Malaga to be impressed by the Alcazaba, the 8th century fortess. To end off the trip we flew to Barcelona where we met up with Eric for a couple of days and discovered a modern city and the Gaudi architecture.