Dear Friends & Family,

We thought that we should update you on what’s been going on in our
lives in the past few months. We’ve spoken to many of you in person, or
on Facebook or elsewhere, so much of this email may be redundant for
many of you, but we thought we’d send an email to try to catch up
everyone at once.

Our first bit of news is that we have moved! We sold our
650-square-foot condo in East Vancouver, and bought a 1450-square-foot
townhouse in Richmond, south of Vancouver. It feels pretty luxurious.

We are both on Facebook, should you wish to contact us there.

The commute to Regent College, where Andrea continues as the Music and
Worship Coordinator, is a bit better than from the old place. Andrea
will also finish up her Master’s degree in the spring. And Andrea’s
debut CD, Awake the Sacred Song, is nominated for two Canadian Gospel
Music Association Covenant Awards. Read all about it at
andreatisher.com.

Gordon commutes by bus to downtown Vancouver, where he continues as a
software developer at Threewave Software, a video game studio.
Threewave develops multiplayer modes for major video games, including
the past year’s Turok and Army of Two for the Xbox 360 and
Playstation 3, and the upcoming Ghostbusters game from Sony.

All this would be exciting enough, but there is still one more item that
we thought you’d be interested in . . . drumroll please . . .

It turns out that we will be needing the extra space around the house,
since Andrea is now in her second trimester.

That’s right, we are expecting our first child in the second week of
April, 2009. We are, of course, both excited and terrified, and we look
forward to sharing this new stage of our life with you in the coming months.

So there are still boxes everywhere, walls needing painting, and the hundred and one things that need to get done. It still feels like we’re camping out in someone else’s house. It’s so BIG — 1400 whole square feet. We went back to do some cleaning in our 650-square-foot apartment, and it’s hard to believe how small it is.

We have a new land-line telephone number that will be active on Friday; the voicemail message for our old number will tell you the new number.

We will also not have internet for a week, so email may be sporadic.

I’ve even been too busy to note last Saturday’s SpaceX launch and subsequent failure of their 3rd Falcon 1 rocket. Turns out that the new engine they were testing burned a little longer than they expected after shutdown, and the first stage bumped into the second stage after they separated. Which is disappointing, but an easy fix — just separate a bit later after main engine cutoff.

There’s even a video, which is pretty darn cool.

SpaceX say that they might launch another rocket in a month or so. I’m a huge space geek, so of course I’m hoping that the fourth time will be the charm.