Birthday celebrations, breath-taking autumn colors and BRRRRRRRRR

Tuesday was Nathan's BIG day. He turned 2 and it was time to celebrate. Watch the celebrations here! He is growing up so quickly, and its obvious by how much fun he had on his birthday. We hid most of his presents in one cupboard, and he soon caught on to the fact that this was the "pressie" cupboard! You just mention the P word and his face lights up as he runs toward you, then past you to the "pressie" cupboard! He was spoilt by us, as well as his extended family! It appears Fisher-Price will be making a better than expected profit this year from Nathan's birthday ;-) Our lounge should be re-labeled as the playroom, as I think now Nathan has more toys than we have furniture! But its all good! Besides, with the weather turning cold, he will be spending a lot more time indoors from now on!
Thank you all for you gifts, e-mails, cards and well wishes for Nathan's birthday, we value them dearly!

On Wednesday we won our volleyball match again and are currently placed 4th in the league! Really enjoying it!!

On Saturday, we hit the mall again as the weather was cooler, and there is no better place for Nathan to run around in a warm, safe environment. After we thought that Nathan had got his fill of slides, cars, tunnels, and fishes we stopped at the Christian Family Store to buy a couple of Christmas presents. That afternoon, the sun came out and now whenever the sun is shining, we jump at the opportunity to go outdoors. We drove to a park down the road from us that has some lovely trees, hoping for a display of the finest autum colors. We weren't disappointed. We also went for a walk along a leaf-lined pathway around a pond and through the trees. It was a lovely afternoon out! See for yourself on the Video page!

On Sunday, it was another wet and cool day in Cleveland. We went to Church and Nathan changed from the 1 year olds class to the 2 year old class! It was a missions weekend at the church, and it was quite amusing to see the Providence choir (all whities in their starched church outfits) singing an African song. Don't get me wrong, it sounded beautiful, but Liesel and I are used to dark faces, colorful outfits and some definite moving to the rhythm when a song like that is sung. So we had a good chuckle about that! The rest of the day was spent indoors as it was around 7C with wind. Right now as I am typing this up, its pouring outside with the temperature at 0C. The forecasters have predicted snow for Monday and Tuesday, and then again on Thursday and Friday. They say that the snow might accummulate this time around so I may be posting pictures of a white blanket covering the gardens here. Praise the Lord for Central heating though as, I am currently wearing a T-Shirt as I type this!

This week I plan to go talk to my manager about my job here, so please pray for me that it goes well, and I can get what I am asking for! Until next week ---> or a good dose of snow - whichever comes first!