Celebrity Look-a-likes

I found this cool website off a friends blog today that scans a photo of you and compares it to those of celebrities. It tells you which famous person you most look like. Since Dave and I are the perfect couple that means our celebrity dopplegangers are totally with the wrong people.

Of course the site also tells me that with any photo I put in, that I'm a match for Charlize Theron (96% in fact!). If that's truth ... I should be getting better work. Guess Tom and Katie might be right for each other after all.

Our Life Right Now

This year our church has started a new Christmas outreach ministry called Bethlehem Live! The concept is to have people participate in an actual live journey to Bethlehem and to experience the Christmas story as it unfolds right before their eyes. Travellers, led by their guide, encounter beggars, bandits, roman soldiers, shepherds, live animals, a market place, and a prophetess as they pay their taxes, and attempt to find a place to stay in the city. At the end of their journey they are directed to the stable of the inn where they find a couple, an important baby, and the meaning of Christmas. All of this is topped off by live music while they await their tour as well as christmas baking and beverages to warm up with after their journey is completed.

Dave and our friend (and music & creative arts pastor) Kris have been busy heading up and adminstrating this event for the past several months. Needless to say, there are a lot of details in a production like this, so they have been very busy doing everything from recruiting, to snow removal, to hooking up heaters and building fires to keep our actors warm, to putting up sets, to conducting interviews, to ... well you get the idea. They are very busy guys missed much by their wives!

Bethlehem Live! runs for 3 nights and started last evening. So far the response has been great. Infact we had to turn people away near the end of the evening. However, tonight we should have it worked out so we can take more people, more quickly. If you live close to Grande Prairie, you should come check it out. For those of our friends who live out of reach, you can check out some pictures that Melody has put on their blog http://www.krisandmel.blogspot.com.

I'll Be Home For Christmas ...

We just want to let all our friends and family back in Niagara to know that we'll be home for Christmas (finally) this year. We will be arriving December 22nd and returning to Alberta January 8th. We would love to get together with everyone we can, so shoot us an email or give us a call. See you soon!!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas ...

Last Monday we (well me, Erin) decided to put up our Christmas Tree. It may seem early to some but it made sense to us since:

A) We'll be in Niagara from just before Christmas until well after New Year's and ...

B) We've had feet of snow here since October.

If you have an artifical tree like we do you know it takes a lot of work to put it all together, so you might as well have it up for a while to make the effort worth while. If you're reading this blog, feel free to help us finish off our Christmas decorating by adding a few presents to the bottom of our tree :)

P.S. I like Lindor chocolates!

Love The Bug

Dave loves this video because it stars his favourite car ... the classic VW Beetle.