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Giving a Video Tour of the house via Skype

Jonathan and Jenny — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:49:30 +0000

Jenny giving a video tour over Skype

I think this is a first for us… Jenny and I were able to give a “video tour” of our new apartment by using Skype. Of course you know I love technology, but I thought I would take a moment to share a fun way we were able to use it. We also got to visit with Misty and Andy and actually see them. I confess, it would have been better to hang out together for the evening in our home together, but skype isn’t a bad alternative when being together isn’t practical.

We are not in Kansas anymore

Jonathan and Jenny — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:23:22 +0000

What a beautiful city! We arrived in Sherbrooke, Quebec one week ago, and we are slowly settling in. The staff at Parole de Vie arranged a fabulous apartment for us just off campus with a playground in the backyard! The kids are already getting to know the neighborhood kids (as best they can while none of the neighbor kids speak English and our kids have no French yet). Steve & Ann Hennings blessed us with help driving up from Wisconsin, keeping us sane on the roads, helping us unload and begin to set up, and exploring our new city with us! Now that they are gone we feel the jolt of being in a new place and working to make it home for now!

Ann and Jenny at Louies

Bed Assembly time

Moving to Canada should be no sweat, right? It’s not that different, is it? Wouldn’t the only big difference be that everything is in French? Well, that is what we prepared ourselves for, but we were in for a big surprise!

Take your typical Roundy family breakfast for example: old-fashioned oats with raisins & milk. The first three grocery stores we visited didn’t even sell old-fashioned oats—only quick oats or quick-er oats! And the milk! Not only does the milk come in a bag, it is at least $5.50 for roughly a gallon (4 liters).

Milk comes in a what?

A few other differences that caught us off guard:

I guess this means we stop on red Square and go on green circle

Fries are served either plain or with gravy & cheese curds!

People bike or walk all over town.

And cars get plugged-in in the winter!

Does that parking space include an outlet?

Please continue to pray for us as we encounter more differences and continue to settle in! As you can see we are still unpacking boxes!

I sure thought we had already unpacked that box

If you are interested in more photos check out our photos page.

11 Year Anniversary

Jonathan and Jenny — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:17:19 +0000

Jenny and I had a great time celebrating our Anniversary by going out for dinner together. It was so nice to get away for an evening together amidst the packing and preparing for our move to Canada.

Out for dinner to celebrate 11 years of marriage

Settling into our place in Wisconsin!

Jonathan and Jenny — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:29:31 +0000

Jake came over and made dinner our first night in our new place. Guests are awesome!

We are so glad to be getting settled into our place here in Wisconsin. This is a picture from our first night in our new place here in Wisconsin. It was great to christen our new place by having people in, especially since Jake made dinner for us. Arepas and beans and rice, ahh food from south america.

Check out our pictures on our photos page, hope you enjoy being a part of our move in and thanksgiving by looking at our pics.

Back in Missouri for the weekend

Jonathan and Jenny — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:16:28 +0000

We are back in missouri for the weekend. Jenny went to the ladies retreat with Calvary Chapel Lake Ozark. We had a good trip up from Oklahoma except for the fact that I left the suitcase with all of our clothes in it behind. Thankfully we had brought our dirty clothes to wash, so we were able to wash them and have clothes until our suitcase arrived.

Cartoons as our family will be learning to watch them

Jonathan and Jenny — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:19 +0000

Our family will be learning French in order to live and minister in africa. Below is a video of a familiar show in French. Some of the transitions our kids will be going through…watching saturday morning cartoons in french anyone?