Happy Christmas Family and Friends!!!

Here in the Polsfut household, the kids December birthdays are over and Christmas celebrations are in full swing- complete with Veggies Tales Christmas carols!

Nate: Nate is continuing to enjoy his job as an EA in a structured learning classroom as well as his work with the Autism Resource Centre. In fact, he is planning on going to university this fall to begin his degree in Education! This will certainly be a new adventure for the whole family. We’ve just laid the ground -work to begin renovating our basement into a suite. This will serve as extra income for us while Nate’s in school.

In February of this year, Nate got to take a short trip to Niagara on the Lake for a 24/7 Prayer Canada Meeting. Nate has now taken on the responsibility of being 24/7 Prayer Canada’s Saskatchewan rep. This could mean some extra travel and e-mail/phone communications for him, but as 24/7 is still taking off here, his role hasn’t been too busy.

Erika: Erika is enjoying being at home raising our two children! She is no longer running an in-home daycare, but is teaching piano lessons. She currently has 8 students and

is really enjoying teaching!

Erika is also keeping busy with sewing, knitting and other crafty projects.

Kelaiah: Kelaiah is enjoying pre-school two mornings a weeks and is learning so much, so very quickly! She’s really growing up fast! She is still a bookworm who loves to chat, sing and dance. Kelaiah took gymnastics this fall, and will take another class after Christmas- she thoroughly enjoys herself there!

She had another Princess birthday party this year and still loves dressing up in fancy princess dresses! She is such a joy!

Luther: Luther continues to be light in our lives and is such an answer to

prayer! He just had his first birthday and is crawling all over the place- he’s not far from walking. A typical boy, he’s often getting into mischief of some sort- but his cute smile when caught could melt anyone’s heart! He’s a bit shy and certainly a Mommy’s boy, but loves little “jokes” and likes to show off his tricks!

Ministry: We are still leading a couples cell/house church on Monday nights. We are currently doing the Growing Kids God’s Way program as a group and are totally enjoying it! Just before the summer we did the “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage” Video series and would highly recommend it to any couple!

As mentioned above, Nate is the Saskatchewan rep for 24/7 Prayer and while it’s not kept him too busy it’s kept him in the prayer loop. He headed up another 40 days of non-stop prayer this past year, which was another huge success! He also put together the Regina gathering for Global Day of Prayer.

For those of you who know and are wondering: our dream for quite some time has been to open a coffee shop to use for both business and ministry purposes. We were hoping 2009 would be the year we’d see some things kick off with this. However,after seeking further advice and after observing several families who own businesses, esp those with families, we have decided to put this dream on the shelf indefinitely. Neither of us feel that the amount of time commitment and living life at the shop is something that we want for our family- so this dream we will forgo- at least until the kids are grown!

So for now, Nate will get his degree in Education, and we’ll see where God takes us from there!

Travels: This summer Nate was able to take his paternity leave and we went on a four week vacation! It was an amazing time of making memories! We drove out to Victoria B.C to visit Erika’s brother and sister-in-law Dan and Quinn. However, we took our time camping and visiting friends and family along the way. We were able to go on our first Ferry Ride; we also visited the Calgary Zoo, the Vancouver Aquarium (complete with baby beluga whale!), the beach in Kelowna, the Enchanted Forest, lots of play parks, Nate got to go surfing for the first time in Tofino etc!

One of our favourite stories from the summer though happened at Lake Minewanka, Banff. We took a trip up the road from out campsite to see the Lake. Before we left we prayed that God would surprise us that day (we prayed this nearly every day and we had many more surprises than just the one mentioned). It was breathtaking! Kelaiah and Nate had fun putting their feet in the icy glacier waters. We saw some docks on part of our walk and Kelaiah asked if we could go look at the boats- so we did. She then asked if we could ride on one of them. Seeing as the boat tours of the Lake were not budgeted and were $44 per person, we decided that we couldn’t do it. As we were walking away from the docks, the captain of the big boat came up to us and offered our family a free boat tour!!! Our God really does care about the desires of our hearts- even the little ones!

It was such an amazing holiday and we’re so thankful to all of our friends and family who helped us out b

y putting us up and feeding us while we weren’t camping! We’ve been talking about the trip ever since and will certainly do something similar again!

We are looking forward to all of the exciting new adventures God has for us in 2010. Please keep us posted on your lives too!

We wish you and your families a Wonderful and Prosperous 2010!!!!

Much Love,

Nate, Erika, Kelaiah and Luther