Maddie turns 3!

We celebrated Maddie's 3rd birthday this weekend. The above pic is her eating her cake. As you can see, she is our girlie girl. She loves anything pink, frilly and princess-ey (i know thats not a word). Maddie is also our very strong-willed child and although challenging, we love that about her and hope to train her to use that God-given strong will for good.

Our family is in super busy mode right now. Ryan is off to China again at the end of the week and we are off to Muskoka to stay with my parents while he's gone. Ryan's going there to check out factories to manufacture the DTV, this is his second trip out there and he's becoming more and more of a seasoned world traveler. It's def. preparing him for future missions :)

Alright, off to do some more laundry while the kids sleep. Ill try to get some more posts up, my camera broke so im kind of waiting to get it fixed so i can update with lots of pics.

For His Glory!

Mel

And We're Back!

After almost a year and one more baby girl later, Ive decided to update this blog again. Mainly because I've deleted my Facebook account and wanted to keep everyone updated with growing kids etc... but also because we are embarking on a missionary journey and thought this could keep everyone up to date with where we are on the journey.

On that note, we have been officially accepted with African Inland Mission. Were applying to do their 2-3 year training program called TIMO (training in outreach ministry). It's basically half mission trip outreach half Bible school. We will go with a team to an unreached peoples group in Africa and live with them, learning their culture and language, ministering to the people, building relationaships and teaching them the story of Jesus through the Bible in their language. While were doing this , we'll be mentored and trained by full time missionaries who already live there and complete 4 or 5 Bible courses on the field. I will also be homeschooling the kids and being mom, wife and homemaker (or hut keeper). And for those who keep asking, my workload will be less since I have motherly responsibilities. Right now were just finishing all the psychological tests. Please be praying for us as we push through all the paper work and tests that are required.Since we're in the beginning application stages we dont know where in Africa we will be serving or when we leave yet, but were trying to aim by 2013 sometime.

That's all I have time for today but the next update will be more family stuff. The pic above is Darius and Maddie playing outside this past week. and here is one of Felicity this month too :)

Updates Coming Soon........

Just thought I'd let people know that I do in fact plan on updating this blog regulary, Weve just been in a season of busyness and trials. Things are starting to calm down a bit so hopefully I'll have something up soon!

Drumroll please...

Baby Fairhead #3 is expected to arrive sometime in late August! yay!

It's been a while...

Hey there! whoever you are. I am back. Been pretty busy juggling two kids and so much has been going on that i somewhat forgot about this blog. But i have returned, hopefully able to write more updates as they happen.

Update on kids: Darius is 3 and a half and my little helper. He is so sweet, gentle and loves helping me out with Maddie. He loves cars, trucks, helicopters and fixing things. Im doing pre-school with him right now and its been fun, hes got a short attention span but what 3 yr old boy doesn't?

Madelyn is 10 months old now, crawls, sits up, plays cars with D and eats real people food now! She's growing in leaps and bounds and is so beautiful! She's feisty though and very talkative and loud, quite the opposite of her sweet little brother. They are both such a joy.

Update on Ry's work: He's working full-time on the DTV now and has sold it with the patents to BPG works motors. The US military is interested and he'll be meeting with them on Jan 22nd at their California base to present it. along with a 6 hour interview. I am so excited/nervous for him! If this goes through it is absolutely huge! After he returns from that we'll all go back to Cali to film some shows it will be on etc...will be really nice to get away from the cold for a bit :)

Update on goals/dreams: The whole purpose of inventing this project was to sell it to make enough money to finish bible school and do missions...that has not changed. If the Lord provides us financially through the DTV we want to use it just for that. We have a heart to reach the unreached. were praying for a specific place and people right now and just want to be guided by the Lord and not our own hearts. Im so excited to see if the Lord will use this project to help fund our dream.

anyway, thats pretty much our life in a nutshell right now. Weve been still trying to witness to muslims and such here and went to a debate a couple of weeks ago, but the Muslims there were very prideful and heart hearted. only God can soften their hearts and we pray for that. Ry and some friends also went around to all our neighbours at Christmas inviting them out the Xmas eve service and giving out New testaments and a Jesus movie. Nobody came out to church so hopefully the'll read the word or watch the movie.

God's been really teaching us lately to give up our lives for him. That following Christ should cost you something. We were really inspired by the move "The Hiding Place" the story of Corrie Ten Boom. If you can watch the movie or read the book, Its such an amazing picture of the Gospel and inspiring to all Christians to live for Christ no matter what the cost. He is worthy!

Exibition Evangelism

We took the fam (and Scott) to the Ex on sunday. We go every year mainly for Ryan's sake, so he can see the air show. But this year we decided to go with a mission. We brought some tracts and New testaments and Ryan and Scott got to evangelizing random people as thousands walked by us. Scott talked to a psychic who insisted she was a christian using her "gift" to help people and refused to talk to him anymore. He also talked to a muslim lady who was really trying to witness to him, but she did listen intently and refused the Bible only because she wasn't allowed to read it. Ryan talked to a couple of Asian men who seemed really interested and walked away reading the whole tract intently. One man was really happy Ryan gave him a tract and said thank you many times :)

We then journeyed inside to find a "christian" booth offering a free Bible seminar, turned out to be christadelphians and the guys stayed there for a while debating the Trinity. One of them was super nice and was really interested, once Scott gave him a good verse, he just went quiet and couldn't stop staring at it, so hopefully God will work in his heart. We exchanged numbers and will be meeting with him again next week. All in all it was a good day and were gonna try and do the same at some big events in Brampton. Can't wait.

Great Movie

We rented this movie last night from a secular video store. It's a really amazing true story.The Gospel is preached throughout. Highly recommend it.

Maddie starts solids!

She's all grown up...well, almost. Here is our little girl chowing down some rice cereal at 5 and half months. She loves to eat. I thank the Lord for giving me such happy hungry and very chubby babies :)

The Calm After The Storm

This is the sky in our backyard after the tornado storm that hit Toronto last week. To see a video of the F2 twister that hit ground about 30 minutes of us click HERE.