About us!

Hi! I decided to start a blog after much peer pressure from the younger members of my family who like to hang out with us... It's a wonderful way to keep in touch with our family and friends around the world! Just a little bit about ourselves... We were missionaries in Brazil for 30 years, and moved back to Canada in 2000. Our family is small... but influential!!! :)

First, there's Pat Nelson who insists on being my best friend, and I really like her a lot, but I don't like her dogs that much... They are too hyper for me! She lives just a few blocks from my house. She is very stylish, very intelligent, and loves to give orders (bossy!!! :p)... But she is married to the sweetest guy, his name is Eric Nelson, and anytime I really need help, he is always there for me! Partly, because he loves my home cooked meals!!!

Then, there's Lynn, our second daughter. She was born beautiful, talented, and definitely has a way with words, in fact I expect she will write a book some day! But until then, you can check out her blog: http://lynnlagore.blogspot.com/ (Just to make sure Pat doesn't get jealous, here's her blog, too: http://nelsonsdogpatch.blogspot.com/).

Lynn is married to Dwight Lagore, and they are missionaries in Mozambique... And like Eric, he is the greatest son-in-law anybody could have, and keeps his mother and father-in-law on track with their missionary carreer, and reminds us that there's no cut off date, or retirement age with God!!! :D

Then, there's the 3 grandchildren... And most certainly, the most intelligent, capable and talented of anyone in the world! Ruthie, the oldest is married to Royden Lepp. She is a nurse, and you will certainly want her around when you are sick!!! Cause she gives lots of loving hugs... Royden is an animator and also keeps little weird animals as pets on his desk! He's authored several books and he is becoming quite famous... (I think...) They live in Seattle, and their presence there is changing the history of that great city!!!:P

Russell and Amanda spent almost all of their lives in Africa and now are both in Canada and study at the U of A. Amanda just finished her 1st year of Bio-Chemistry, and Russ just finished his 2nd year in Electronic Engineering. And they are both pulling in wonderful grades and the teacher just can't stump them! (Especially Amanda... :P) Don't you agree, they are the most intelligent and talented of all grandchildren in the world?!

Oh... at the moment we have a third member in our family! His name is Luke and he hails from Brazil, in fact he attended our kindergarten many years ago, when he was just a tiny tot! He shares the same name as our son Luke, who went to be with the Lord at the age of 17, while we were in Brazil. He was also born in the same month, so... The Lord has sent another Luke along to bring us special joy and make up for the one He took home for Himself many years ago...

Now that you've met our family, I will update you on what we are doing at the moment!

We managed to get some landscaping done this summer, finally!!! It's looking real good, I can't take much credit for that. Earl has done most of it! I will post a picture of it next time... With Luke's help I finally got my spring cleaning done, and that's not easy when you're not a spring chicken anymore... :P We've planted some really nice flowers in our garden and I actually put in a vegetable garden. Thanks to my good neighbour Barbara, who has given me a spot in her garden plot! :) Sound's like we are going to have a busy summer and I will do my very best to keep you updated on what's going on...

That's all for now... until later...