Puppet Show

At school today the kids made puppets!!!

So after supper they put on a pupper show for us!!

They did a great job.. they introduced the puppets, did the show and then popped up and introduced themselves!!

Jamie and I didn't clap but we said what a wonderful job they did!! Elshadai informed me that I have to clap if I thought it was a good show not tell them!!! lol

Good Night All!!
I am off to Saskatoon tomorrow!!
I AM SO Excited to see our friends and their new addition from Ethiopia!!!


Lana Lee

Pictures of Last Weeks Fun

Quiet

Every Monday night my grandmother takes the kids for the night!! They have religion class after school and then she takes them to Youth Group. We have been doing this for about two years now. So this means that Tuesday mornings Jamie and I have to ourselves.

This morning seems especially quiet... I got up, showered, ate breakfast, surfed my usually blogs, order some books online and now I am about to leave for work.

But all though this I notice how quiet everything is, and I find myself waiting to here the pitter patter of the kid's feet come down the stairs, or waiting for them to sneak up on me and try to scare me!!

I guess I am trying to say I miss them this morning...something was missing this morning... laughs, smiles, hugs, chit chat about the day, the morning busy rush.lol.

Some mornings I would just love to have a quiet moment to try and here myself think..but today I have all the moments I need...

Have a good day.

I have some new pictures of the kids which I will post later today!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

Spring Time Fun

The last two days the kids have spent most of their time outside!!! Here are a few pictures!!







Good Night

Lana Lee

Chicken with No Teeth

This past week Elshadai has lost 2 teeth and in the past month she has lost 4 teeth!!

Tonight we had Southern Fried Chicken!! Our favorite chicken dish.. I couldn't resist taking this picture of the kids!!




Have a good night!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

Thanks

Thanks Louise!!

I had it translating into HINDI!!

lol

Well some days are just like that!!

Lana Lee

HELP

Can someone help me with my "text"

If you noticed in my last post... the title post is not in English... The problem is that if I have one word titles they stay in English.. but once I type and press the space bar the English words disappear!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

A Week in the Life of the Fergusons

This past week has flown by so fast!!

Last weekend Jamie and I attend a triathlon clinic in Yorkton. Carly Witaker(sp??) from Saskatoon came down to coach the clinic for us. We learnt so much about swimming, running, biking nutrition and race day tidbits!!

Sunday Jamie and I decided after the clinic we would go and purchase a new dishwasher and new bed for ourselves!!! They will be shipped on Friday for us to pick up in Yorkton!!

Come Monday the kids were at their great grandmothers house for the night. On Mondays my grandmother takes the kids to catechism and youth group!! My grandmother always looks forward to Mondays to have the kids stay over night and then she takes them to school!!

Tuesday my grandmother picked the kids up after school to take them to music class where I met them after work.

On Wednesday Jamie and I attended our weekly Wednesday night Triathlon training meeting.. here we will do "brick"workout... but since it was nice out we went for a run!! I am currently the slowest one in the group .. but that is ok. My time will come when I can keep up!! But the help and support of the group I ran 5 miles in 53 minutes..... which is really quick for me. On my long runs my 6 mile run is about
1 hour 17 minutes. I owe the group a big thank you!!

Thursday we came home and did homework (Music and school) with the kids.... After that I studied for my exam until 10pm.

Friday rounded up the week with Jamie and my father installing the new dishwasher.. Elshadai going to her friends dance recital..... Surafel playing his new batman game!!

Well and today is Saturday.. Jamie took the kids grocery shopping in Yorkton to give my time to study!! They are also looking for rubber boots because all we have left around here is water and mud!!! I am on my lunch break now but will quickly be going back to the books!! Tonight I will run 4miles .... and then we are all heading out for supper to celebrate my brother's birthday!!

I am finding that time has been speeding up since the kids came to be with us!!

Have a good weekend!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

DEAL OF THE YEAR

My brother has bought his first house and is moving out in May!!!! So now he is on the hunt for furniture, and all that household stuff that you need!!

Jamie and my brother went to an auction sale on Sunday. The auction sale was put on by Moose Mountain Auction Company. From what I understand is they have some kind of contract with Sears to get "their merchandise" and then resell it at auctions.. I have attended one of these auctions.. some really good deals but you have to watch..

They sell furinture, toys, appliances, beds everything that Sears have expect for clothes.

Well my brother landed up not buying a thing at this sale but Jamie came home with what I would call the deal of the year....

At the end of the auction they had theses "mystery boxes". One board was sticking out of the end of the box and Jamie saw it and it matched our "wood" colour that we have in our house.. Jamie bid on these mystery boxes and won. He choose this "box" and came home...

It took Jamie about an hour to assemble this box and this is what we got!! Oh I might add he only paid $25.00!!! plus tax!!



He got the 5 shelf one!!

I am not sure where we are going to put it but for now it is in the middle of the living room!!

Have a good night!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

Pictures

Some more pictures from today!!!

Pictures

The kids and I went outside today to take some pictures..







I am so proud of them.. just because during the year I ask them to sit, look, walk, hold and pose for pictures. They are so willing to do all this for mom!! Without whining or complaining!! It might help though that I offer them a treat afterwards too!! lol

Lana Lee Ferguson

Charlotte's Web

We are going to Charlotte's Web tomorrow. The kids are just pumped to see this in a theatre production. Just over the border into Manitoba there is a small town called Binscarth. They have a very successful "Vagabond Theatre" Company. Each year they put on kid's play and this year it is Charlotte's Web. The kids asked if there was going to be a REAL pig on stage or a person playing the pig... I said we will have to wait and see.

I wil leave you with the link for this little town's theatre group!!!

http://www.binscarthmb.com/vagabond/schedule.htm

During the summer they hold a theatre camp... which I hope that the kids will be able to go into!!

Have a good weekend everyone!!

Lana Lee

Pictou

Hello Everyone!!

As some of you know that Jamie is from Pictou, Nova Scotia. This weekend Jamie's cousin Cathy gave him this website address. Someone in the town of Pictou has put a web cam on up on a power pole or building and faced it down mainstreet Pictou. Jamie, myself and the kids have been watching the website to see if we can recognize anyone!!

Jamie has seen of vehicles and people who he knows!!

The kids want Nanny Lynn to go and wave in front of the camera so they can see her!!! How about Nanny Lynn???? Are you camera shy???

I will leave you with the link ....

http://www.gopictou.ca/webcam.html

Lana Lee Ferguson

Happy Easter Everyone!!

I just got a phone call from Jamie and the kids...Surafel is all excited because he got a new bike yesterday.... He has out grown his last bike so we promised that this year he would get a new bike. He said that he got a blue bike where the brakes are on the handles just like mom and dad's!! He picked out a mountain bike.

Jamie was saying that the bike is a little big but at the rate Surafel is growing it won't be long before it will fit him.

Elshadai was excited because the Easter Bunny came to Calgary for them.. She liked the new game that they got(Operation), socks and not too much chocolate. lol

I will post pictures of the kids and their new Easter Gifts once they get home!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

No Doors or Doors

In January Jamie and I finally decided to paint our cupboards...our walls are Mocha Brown and we decided to paint our cupboards "chocolate". Surafel and Elshadia thought that it was great that we wanted the cupboards the same colour as them!!! But here is our problem now.. Jamie and I both agree we want to put our "bottom" doors back on to hide our pots and pans. But we can't decide whether or not to put our "Upper" doors back on. We have not had the upper doors on now for two months.. just to try. The very top doors are not going back on because we are going to display our African treasures up there and a couple plants.

So I am asking for your help what do you think??? Doors or No Doors.. We have until Tuesday to decide!!!

Thanks
I will leave you again with pictures of our Kitchen with no DOORS!!






Lana Lee Ferguson

Music For Young Children

Surafel and Elshadai are in the Music for Young Children program. They take their classes in a small neighboring town of Stockholm.

In this program we go to class once a week and then it is expected that the kids practice up to 5 times during the week.

The kids learn their different notes by learning the animals on Critter Avenue for example:
C - Creepy Crawler Critter C
D - Dinosauer
E - Elegant Edith
F - Fireman Fred
G - Grumpy Groundhog
A - Amy Anteater
B - Becky

Then they learn quarter notes are called hops, half notes are turtles, etc.
Each week we learn something new!!

At Christmas time the kids were expected to play two pieces for their Christmas Concert!!!
I think we have about 4 classes left and then we are done for the summer.... The program is 4 years long. I still can't believe how much they have learned over the year. After Christmas we started to learn the notes in Bass Clef. And now they are learning to play songs that have notes in the Treble Clef and Bass Clef. I will leave you with some pictures from their Christmas Concert.

Lana Lee Ferguson

Update- Easter Weekend

Hello,

If there is anyone left out holding on to see if I update this blog.... Here I am!!

Well Jamie and the kids are off to Calgary to see Jamie's brother (David and his family) and spend the whole weekend with them. I have stayed behind to study for my last two exams....My final school exam that is on May 8 and my national exam on July 9th!!!

We have had a busy winter and can't wait for spring to happen!! For the first time in January we took the kids to the Science Centre and IMAX Theatre!!

We also took the kids to tubing in Manitoba one weekend..

We have tried to spend as much time outside this winter with the kids.. my mom and dad bought them a "skating rink" for our baackyard.. which they just loved!!!

The kids are growing fast.. we have them in Youth Group and in the Music for Young Children program. The Music program is once a week for 34 weeks.. we are nearing the end.

The kids have informed us that they want to be in baseball this year instead of soccer...I am not sure where this come from but I guess we are going into baseball!!!

Well that is all for now!!

Talk to you soon

Lana Lee Ferguson

September 2007

Hello Everyone!!

Here we are the end of September!! The kids have been in school for a month now, harvest is still not over and I think snow is not to far away!! So what did the Ferguson Family do this month!!!
September long weekend was spent with Jamie in the tractor in field!! Jamie was in charge of the grain cart this year.... for people who don't farm this is how it works....Jamie work's for Pask Farms !! They run an alfalfa farm but also great barley, wheat and canola!! They own two combines and two grain trucks!! So what happens is the grain cart goes between the two combines getting the "loads" from them to dump into the grain truck... the grain truck then goes to the farm to dump into the bins!! The grain cart is pulled behind a tractor!! There was enough space in the tractor to fit Jamie, myself, Surafel and Elshadai!!! If we wanted to spend time with Jamie... we had to go to him... Harvest is long hours... Jamie went to work at 8am and alot of times he didn't get home until 1am!! The kids were pretty good...as you can imagine.. not much space in the tractor... We had Elshadai and Surafel both driving the tractor.. which proved to be interesting... Surafel drove like he had done it before...straight down the field towards the combines... Elshadai on the other hand ....well just let's just say .... it will be awhile before we would give her a car to drive!! lol

The kids attend Youth Group in Esterhazy every other Monday so they have been attending this and Catechism is about to begin too!!!

We have decided that the kids will on go in a Music program during this school year.. We have choosen to attend "Music for Young Children" program this is every Tuesday in Stockhom ( a neighboring community)... it is great.. mom or dad has to go with the kids!! So I am back learning music!! There is only 6 kids in their class... Jamie and I are just amazed how quickly they have picked up the music. My grandmother decided to go and by us a piano!! Since this program is 4 years long .. we will need ed something for the kids to play !!!

This past weekend we had a Saskatchewan Ethiopian Get together in Regina!!! It was great as always!! Seeing the kids grow.. hearing about new referrals and again meeting new families who have just started the process!! We stayed with Shelley, Bill and Family in Moose Jaw.... always a great time with them!!

This weekend is pretty low key!! Catching up with everything, cleaning up around the yard and getting ready for winter!! But next weekend we are off to Saskatoon for Thanksgiving!!

Talk to you all soon!!!

Lana Lee Ferguson

August Fun

August was a busy month...
First thing we did was attend CAFAC BBQ our annual camping weekend!! As always a great time meeting up with other families who have adopted, or who have started the adoption process through the CAFAC Adoption Agency!! It was nice to finally put faces to names!!! This has been our 4th year attending this BBQ!! IT is amazing to see the kids grow and grow each year!!!

After the bbq it was time to focus on getting ready for school.. took the kids school supply shopping!! We are thankful for Grandmas ...... Elshie's and Surfie's grandmother help out this year by buying their school supplies!!!

School wasn't even start and Jamie was out on the combine!!! Which is hard Jamie worked from 8am to somtimes 1am.... On the weekends we would join Jamie out in the truck !!!

School has begun..... we have been in session for a couple of weeks!!! Surfie came home from school on Wednesday with a cold just raging!!! Elshie woke up with it on Thursday!!! And I got it on Friday!!! (Shawna I guess you warned me!!!)

Well it is September 9 three of us with colds... Jamie somehow has gone untouched...but he is complaining of headaches, tiredness, and just general ugghh!!! I sure hope he doesn't have West Nile!!! So I will see what we do in a couple days!!!

West Nile is just raging in Saskatchewan!!

Talk to you all soon
I will leave you some pictures of the kids... My mom and I went out one morning before school started and just went around to different farms and took pictures of the kids!!

Lana Lee Ferguson







The kids were so good!!! We took 150 pictures... no complaining, whining!!! Just smile!!! Hit them on a good day!!!

Beach and Boats

Well once we got back to Nova Scotia after a wonderful trip to PEI.... we just spent our lazy days of summer doing things around Pictou!!
Near Jamie's house is a beautiful beach that we took the kids to to pick sea shells!!!
Jamie's friend Bubba just bought a lobster boat this year. He took us for a ride one day. We toured the Pictou waterfront and then decided to go out to Pictou Island. One this island the only modern conveince to telephone!! As you can see the kids had a ball... didn't quite get their sea legs though.... Bubba let them drive the boat!!! On the way back from the island we ran into a storm... for us Prairie folk the waves were just a little too big and a little too much ....... the rain was a little too much .. and now I am sure it is going to take a while for the kids to back on boat!!! Oh, well. We had fun made it back safe and sound... a little more wet than when we started!!!
When we were in Pictou it was during Lobster Carnival.... so Jamie got to see some old friends of his and catch up on times!!!
The kids got to experience their first Carinval Rides thanks to their Aunty Alicia and her boyfriend!!!
Pictou still holds annual SoapBox Races for kids!!! That was fun to watch!! I flew home on the 12th of July to start my new job... Jamie and the kids came home on the 23rd !!!



I found it hard to be without the kids.... It is sure nice to have the kids and Jamie at home!!