Devin and Lenore

Devin and Lenore are two of our best friends here in the Valley. Scott knows Devin from back in their first year of Div College, but then when they connected again last summer, they realized they both got married on the same day- June 18! After asking each other why they didn't invite the other, they laughed and picked up where they left off a few years ago.

Automatically we had a significant connection with these two- the same anniversary! Not to mention that we're all involved in Ministry and Devin was in my theology class all year...By the way, he was always late, except on the last day:) It has been so nice to have Lenore to talk and hang out with this year, (and to start me scrapping!) even tho we're both busy, especially Lenore since she's substituting pretty much every day!

Devin is the associate pastor at Kentville Baptist (our church), and Lenore and Devin both do youth group and music- LOTS of music:) They are a very gifted couple, but most of all they are great friends. Scott and I will miss them terribly:( Lenore and I will especially miss winning against the boys playing very heated games of Dutch Blitz:) Where Lenore can occasionally be heard asking us,
"So like, how long do you guys think you'll do the points for?" and "Oh no!":)

The Boyz-- Scottie K and Devin J

The Girls, often heard shouting, "Blitz!" (haha...:)

Lenore recalling her University Spanish

Devin getting a short (yet high quality) guitar lesson from Dee

Snapshots of Wolfville

As we only have a month left here before our trip to Poland on May 30 and them move to McAdam, NB for July 1st, I thought it'd be nice to post some pics dePICting our life in Wolfville!:

This is Scrapbook Night which happens almost every Monday night, usually at Christine's house. This is a small night, but we sometimes have 5 or 6! I always look forward to going...I think we all sort of feel like it's a girls night/support group! Most of us have some connection
to Acadia Divinity College and that's how it all got started. Also, you can often hear Christine saying, "So where did you get that idea?" :)



















Here is Scott with friends Matt and Shawn in an in-TENTS situation (I'm so punny:)! These 3 guys spent a lot of time together studying at ADC, finishing their MA's (and Scott's MDiv). As you can see, these study bugs have their crazy sides, too. . .:)





Congrat's to Matt who just finished his Thesis! Yay! We know how hard you (and fam!) worked to achieve this goal and we're proud of you!







These are some of the girls I work with at Swiss Chalet- and their babies! We got together to say good-bye to Jen (turquoise shirt) as she moved to TO. In front is me and Phyllis (we're both seater/greeters) and Tracy, Jen and Tracy are all (or were) servers. I'm holding Tracy's baby boy elliot- same name as Danielle's new baby girl!
















Congratulations to Danielle and Rick on their new baby girl, Elliot Jane! (I had previously put Ellioy and didn't notice the typo! Sorry guys!) Does this make me Auntie Dee? Yay! We're so happy for you guys!!

School's Out... for ever?

I just got back from Jonathan Wilson's house, where I dropped off Dee's Statement of Faith, her final paper for Systematic Theology. For me, the magic moment was 10:57 am, Friday, April 21, 2006. That was the moment I finished my last assignment for my M.Div. Life is awesome. Life is free. We're so thankful to God for getting us through this school year, and for where He's taking us next. First, though, we get to ressssssssssssssssssssssst. Oops, sorry, I almost fell asleep, life is so stress-free!

Valentine's Day

Back on Valentine's Day we headed into Halifax to go to Boston Pizza, our favorite restaurant. Here's a picture of us there!

Here we go

While we were in Nicaragua we saw lots of great places, people, and things. Here are some of them.


From left to right are Chico (the driver), Carlos (the gardener/boat driver/our friend), Dee, Scott, and Nanny.


Here Dee touches the back of a turtle that we watched while it was laying eggs! Dee likes to call the turtle Marissa!


This is the cathedral in the center of the city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. The cathedral has been closed since it was damaged in Managua's great earthquake of 1972, an event that destroyed much of the city.

Spring Break in Nicaragua

We went to Nicaragua on vacation in February with Dee's Nanny, and had a fantastic time. We stayed with Nanny's stepson Tom and his wife Lois, at their house on the beach... Very rough life, indeed. Here's a picture from a market in Masaya.

This is the view from a restaurant in the nearby town of San Juan. It's a funky little town where Scott and I went to church one Sunday am. I tried to translate for a while but then my brain was like overloaded and it all started sounding like gibpermsh. But at the end of the service everyone wanted to hug and kiss us and were really super nice. Actions definitely speak louder (and clearer) than words:).

Exams, exams

I actually only have two exams this term, one of which I wrote yesterday and shouldn't have been concerned about. This morning I have Evangelism. That shouldn't be very bad either, except I've barely studied. I''ve got an hour and a half now to try to prepare myself.

It's hard to believe that after this exam I'll just have to finish up my last two classes' work on my own time (I hope to be done Friday) and then my years at seminary are over. I can still work on my thesis (and plan to do so), but my formal classes will be all behind me. It's a strange feeling sometimes, but it's a good one too. Maybe I'll feel like an adult soon.

Dee uploaded some pictures to blogger last night I think, so I expect she'll be posting them to our blog soon. My posts are non-graphic it seems. It's just easier to not procrastinate that way. :)

Guilty of procrastination

I have a tendency to procrastinate. I know this, I admit it, and sadly most times I accept it. Well, we've been guilty of procrastinating with our blog these days too. But now the semester is coming to an end and it's time to start updating.

I just finished writing an article on the Dead Sea Scroll 1QSa (The Rule of the Congregation) for a book called The Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (published by Routledge and forthcoming in 2008). It's great to be done it, since it was two weeks overdue on Saturday. Now it's 10:30 and I'm just getting started studying for my Greek exam tomorrow morning. Life is good.

Dee and I are trying to get out all of our support letters for Poland, and it's going fairly well. We're excited about everything that's going on in our lives these days; it's hard to even imagine that this is real life sometimes. Once I've graduated I'm hoping it will feel a little bit slower and more manageable for the two of us. McAdam is waiting.

Well, I suppose I should get to that Greek. We'll try to keep updating.