A Beautiful Day in Bridge of Allan

This is the view looking northwest with Bridge of Allan in the foreground. The Mt. in the background is Ben Ledi and is part of the western highlands just north of Loch Lomond. As you can see the snows from last Sunday have melted away in the lowlands but are still pretty deep on the peaks. Just thought you all might want to see some of the scenes around here. The are truely amazing. "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands". - Psalm 19:1 By the way, this shot was taken today around 4:30pm. 

Welcome to Narnia. Wow, what a surprise we had this morning when we woke up to over a foot of freshly fallen snow. I didn't think we would ever see a real snow storm here but praise God, we did.

Knowing that it probably won't be around too long we headed out to do some sledding or as they say here, sledging. After walking through town we hit the slopes by the river and sledded until Kayleigh could no longer tolerate the snow accumulating on the inside of her boots. We headed back to the house and after a short rest, an amazing snowman was created along with a pretty radical sledding ramp in the front yard.

Well, it's been a fun day and now we are wondering if the kids are having school or not. As of this writing (10:51pm) the roads around our house have still not been plowed and we're wondering if they ever will be. I don't think anyone here has a proper snow shovel either. I guess they're not used to this sort of thing happening. I think we all wish they were.

Blessings from Narnia 

Happy Birthday Erin!!! You're 1!

It's hard to believe a whole year has passed since this wee Scottish/American lassy came into our lives. By the way, Kayleigh always makes it very clear that Erin is American whenever some of the locals refer to her as Scottish since she was born here.

She is such a blessing and we are ever thankful to God above for this wonderful gift of life He's allowed to come into our lives.

Just this evening while doing the dishes I couldn't escape thinking of how she has blessed us all hearing Kayleigh and Liam laughing hysterically at Erin's latest antics. She is a riot! I don't know where she comes up with this stuff. Her latest thing is chasing Liam around the house, tackling him, and then pouncing on him like some WWF wrestler. I can assure you that show has never darkened the screen of our tv which tells me she's got some kind of crazy imagination. Anyway, she has us literally laughing every day and we love her to bits.

Happy Birthday Erin, we love you more each day.

Daddy, Mommy, Kayleigh and your punching bag, Liam.

Yea, It's Snowing!!!


One of the things I miss most from home is a good snow storm. A couple of weeks ago when it snowed like 20 inches back in Pa, I was really homesick. Thank God He sent us some of the white stuff. By the way, we just got a new (used- Julie found a great deal in the paper) digital camera so we'll be posting many more pics. I just took a bunch on the way over to the office and I am loving it. I like the instant gratification of this thing. I've been wanting to start a Scotland weather blog but Julie has reminded me that I've got a few too many projects to complete first. So, as soon as I get those out of the way (like next year) I may start up the blog and report when something significant happens around here (which may just mean the sun coming out) weather wise and include photos so you can see for yourself.

Speaking of weather, I should have something new on global warming on the other blog sometime today. I thought since it's snowing it would be appropriate to blog on that subject today.

In case you're wondering from the shot above, Erin loves the snow. She has to, she's a Hamer!

Marc