We're gonna float down the Elbow!!

We're gonna go float down the ELbow! SO FUN!! We are excited a bit! :)

Home again Home Again

For all of you haters out there who don't believe in our blog (brett! Shawn!). Just thought i'd post something...actually you probably don't even know that we have this new blog! oh well. Anyway. I am home from being away for a month in NYC. Actually it was about 3 weeks ago that i got home. It was an incredible time and i'm so glad that i went there and experienced everything NY had to offer. Towards the end of the trip i was getting pretty homesick. I missed Nicolai so much that i just wanted to get home. I think I learned that a month feels a little long still to be apart for that long so if we can just do 3 weeks in the fall that would be better. I think that's what i can handle. ALthough shorter would be preferable...I am now preparing for recitals and for heading out east here in about a month and a half. It's quite unbelievable that i am going still. I feel overwhelmed by it most days and am unsure how it will go. I keep reminding myself that i felt this way for NY and that i did a great job there. I made friends worked really hard learned as much as i could...and that i don't think school will be any different. That i can definitely make it out there...

Nicolai is doing well. His business is in the thick of things. Lot's of mowing and he enjoys having a "stay at home wife" for the summer. I'm cooking and cleaning and baking etc etc. He enjoys all those things. We are just enjoying each others company so much and trying to soak up as much time as possible.

The other day i was getting a perscription from the pharmacist and as i was leaving the guy said "you look like a mormon, are you a mormon?" i was like "no" and he said "are you sure you are not a german mormon?" and i was like "i'm sure". If anyone can understand why he would ask me this that would be great! HA! how random and funny. I don't think i looked particularily mormon. in fact i looked pretty much the same as i do everyday. but maybe i was giving off that joseph smith vibe...anyway, i thought that was really funny!

ok Bye!

Banff...Bentley...Beers...

IT was a great long weekend! Mia got to do a seminar with Richard Armstrong at the Banff Centre of Arts! That was awesome! she learned so much about movement and using your whole body for singing instead of just the voice! Then we went to visit bud and stef at the rcmp headquarters by priddis! we stayed the night and had a wonderful time with them Mia didn't drink any beers but Nic and Bud enjoyed a few...stef and mia stuck to cookies and milk..yummm! then off to bentley it was great seeing the fam again! Rosanne's belly is growing and we can't wait to meet the nugget nephew or neice! so excitecd!

that's it for now!! yay!
m and n

MANHATTAN and SPRING CLEANUPS!

Spring is here and opportunity is in the air! Yay! Nicolai made a trip to Bentley to get his equipment and he has serviced it and is almost ready for spring cleanup season. This means for us early mornings, grass stained clothes, a touch of hayfever and for Nicolai working off a little bit of that winter weight that seems to rear its head every winter! ha! He's excited for that! Mia is continuing with teaching. She has a competition next weekend to sing in on Saturday! Hopefully, her songs get memorized and she's ready. She has also started working at e-children again. One thing she thought she'd never do. Instead of doing the retail this go around she is doing the stock receiving and organizing of the back storage room. She loves this way more, and is feeling way more productive as she begins her shift at 7:00am. It's nice cause she gets to choose her own hours and days, but will more than likely work close to full time there in the summer.

Also, she found out that she's been accepted into the Summer Voice Program at the Manhattan School of Music! It's all of June. 8She's trying to figure out the logistics of how it will work, but is hoping that she'll get to go and it'll be a trial run to see if being apart from her one and only Nicolai is doable.

Plans in the works for this summer:

*Home renovation plans...
*August Recital before leaving for school'
*Proarts recital with Laura Styler-Jones on August 12 at noon

I think that's it for us now!

And there is a snippet...

WE ARE SOOO EXCITED TO BE AN AUNT AND UNCLE AGAIN TO ROSANNE and DEVON'S UP AND COMING LITTLE ONE! WE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET HIM/HER!

NIC&MIA

"I like London, London, London..."

So...Mia is IN! The long and the short of it...She will be doing her Masters of Performance in Voice at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario! YAY!

More details to follow...

Nicolai feels: I feel like we are in the place that God is calling us to. Short separations leads to long lasting victories.

Mia feels: wooooooooo!!!! I feel like this is Lord's doing and let His will be done! And Praise Him for sharing in the desires of our hearts. I can't wait to fulfill my promise to Him many years ago in Australia...to Sing...no matter what...I will Sing!! Call me Levi the Viking! You know if you want to...

The Drosts

today...

Nothing to crazy has happened in the last week. We are 100% our San Fran dreams are no more...but perhaps sometime in the future. There may be a chance Mia will still be going to school in the fall, but yet again the Proverbial Red Light blink furiously infront of our faces. What to do...It really is an amazing life. We couldn't be happier. We went to a flames game with our dear friends Chantelle and Donavan on monday! It was so great. And even though Calgary lost we were still tickled pink with the over the top Calgarian spirit and the thousands painted in red before us. We are loving our time with Chantelle and Donavan! We really do get along with them great, and it is really a match made in heaven! That's all for now! We hope that Jacintha is having a wonderful time in Europe!! MiaNic

Here are our future children...aren't they cute???

"The Old Man is Snoring..."

We got a huge downpour of snow, literally it was a downpour! Nicolai has been out since 2:30am clearing...He will be excited when spring cleanups begin!!

There and Back Again...

This is a really interesting way of letting you all know what is new in our lives and what we are most excited about, what we are worried about, what we love and where we hope we are headed. We are two peas in a pod and we feel that God could not have put us together with a better mate in all the world. We are excited about the future, except at present we feel as if the metaphorical "Red Stop Light" is not just on but flashing in-front of our faces. As you probably know we went down to San Francisco in February so Mia could audition for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to hopefully get into a Masters program. Unfortunately, that was not the plan for the next two years of our lives. And still are very much confused as to the direction we are supposed to be heading. Many interesting things happened when we were down there...for one, we got asked to help this university choir record their first CD. Through this we received a job offer to come and work for the University as adjunct university professors....pretty cool...and the second was that Nicolai's dear friend and mentor, Peter Neuman, invited us to help him run his Bayside Academy of music. We thought, "wow, what does this all mean??". Wonderstruck and seduced by the Californian sunshine we jumped quickly into thinking, "this must mean we're meant to go here...". Now we are not so sure. 1 school rejection and almost a month and a half later we have no better idea of what the future holds than before we left for the sunny state.

On another note, Mia sang at the Kiwanis Festival this week...the same week she got rejected by SFCM. She won two golds, two scholarships and one 2nd place red seal and received a medal. Here is a description of them:

Gold in the Advanced Oratorio Class
Gold in the Advanced Recital Class
2nd Place in the Provincial National Class
The Frank Manzara Memorial Scholarship $100
The Polyna Savridi Memorial Scholarship $300
and the Bernard Memorial Medal

How cool! How timely...Thank you Jesus!

It seems as if a funny circle of events. Rejection to Elation and again to Humility...

We've learned this week also that doing the right thing is more important than receiving glory on earth...We are learning so much from each other and our life experiences right now, we are thankful for all of it!

Stay TUNED!

N&M