Treasured Sacrifice

Dear Friends,

We just wanted to say thank you for the overwhelming response and love sent our way at the birth of our little (big) Traeton Wyatt. We are delighted by him and so grateful for his safe birth and good health. He is a sweet little guy who has completely recovered from his fluid on his lungs. Traeton and Jae came home from the hospital on Thursday and we are enjoying being home as a family of 5. Janelle's parent's have been a huge blessing and the church down the street (Kelowna Gospel Fellowship) that we have been to a few of times (of which the Pastor's family are our neighbors... and becoming friends) are blessings us with some meals. So we are very grateful and blessed by Jae's parents and the church.

MEANING OF TRAETON WYATT

We had a few questions about the meaning of his name or where did it come from so here it is:

TRAETON - village near the trees - Trae (Trey means third) - Spiritual connotation - Treasured (Traeton) Sacrifice (Trae)

WYATT - little warrior - Spiritual connotation - Immovable

Our Reason for the Name:

The significance behind the name for us was the journey we have walked this last year. As you may or may not know, Traeton was not planned. In fact our plans, especially Janelle's, were looking very different as we moved back from England to Kelowna. Our plan was to be back in Canada to be closer to family and allow Janelle to re-engage in her nursing career, as she was approaching the time she had to re-engage nursing without loosing her license to nurse. Well, Traeton changed all that for us, especially for Janelle.

Just like when we began this journey 4 1/2 years ago in England and had plans to have Janelle nurse in the UK and be a large part of our income to cover our cost of living, we once again entered into life in Canada thinking and making decisions based on Janelle working. But just like when we started on this journey of faith God has taken us down a different, unexpected and I am sure, a wonderful road. Janelle has had to loose her nursing credentials for the time being (she will have to take a couple semesters of school and do a practicum to be re-certified), we have lost the income we were trusting would enable us to afford to live where we are, Janelle has lost the sense of freedom she was discovering as the boys became more and more independent.

So Traeton Wyatt is our Treasured Sacrifice, especially for Jae. Janelle has had to make many sacrifices and even shift her focus to being an amazing, nurturing and loving mother to an infant once again, instead of re-engaging her career and discovering a new sense of freedom. As well, we know that because of the financial reality this has created for us there will be sacrifice we will have to make, however we will treasure them, knowing there is a new blessing in our lives.

We are so blessed and do treasure Traeton more than words can say. Thanks for walking this journey with us and being a part of our lives, it is people like you who have made what we do possible. We are glad to share with you in all that we put our lives to so that other's may know Jesus' love, forgiveness, grace, freedom and transformation in their lives.

With much gratitude.

Ronnie & Janelle †