Last night we had a fun, yet very chaotic time celebrating July birthdays. It’s always great to hear them sing over and over to each individual child … last night, I believe, there were 7 birthdays. After lots of singing and cupcakes, we all sat (well, some ran around) and sang songs together for quite a while. A good way for the team to end their week here. This morning was time to...

I’m sorry that it has been a couple of days … photos haven’t been uploading and I know it is better to see pictures than to listen to what I have to say all the time! The team has kept busy and will soon be heading back to the states. Thanks so much to all of them for the many projects they helped us out with this week! And … they certainly kept us laughing! They finished up...

We have a team here this week and they have been working on some projects to help improve the orphanage. They have made the children some swings, put together many parts and pieces to make 4 bicycles, are working on shelving for the childrens’ rooms and the storage room, etc. They have also enjoyed playing with and getting to know the children as well as holding a men’s conference last...

Yesterday, as we were toward the end of our church service, I saw a familiar truck drive up to the orphanage, followed by two vans. As I walked over to see what was going on, children began piling out of the vans like crazy! I’m thinking, “No, no! I can’t take all these children!” Come to find out, these were all the children from the orphanage that was destroyed by the hurricane...

This afternoon, we went to the top of the mountain … okay, more like a large hill … that overlooks The Habitat. We hadn’t been up this way before and the view was great! There’s just somethin about being somewhere with a view like this. The mountains … in all their majesty … proclaim God’s majesty like nothing else. We even me at few little friends along...

It will probably sound funny when I say that we only had 10 people along on our beach trip yesterday … but in comparison to two weeks ago, when we took 21 … it was a breeze! We took the older boys on the outting yesterday, along with a girlfriend for Lexi. Who would have thought that in taking boys 12 and older that we would have the privaledge of hearing awesome praise and worship music...

This morning, I sat under a tree with Nalda (pictured above) on my lap. I was enjoying the shade of the tree and the laughter coming from her as the leaves kept blowing onto my shirt. She would pick up the leaf, throw it on the ground, and wipe my shirt a little as if it had left my shirt dirty. Then she would giggle and do it all over again. 5 minutes into our time together, she picked up a leaf that...

Who would have thought 8 years ago, as I was giving birth to my precious Alexis Kathleen, that today we would be spending this special afternoon on a beach with 21 of her little friends in Haiti. Certainly not me!!! We left the orphanage at 2:10pm, the exact time that Lexi was born (her idea) and returned around 6. The kids all had a blast, as usual when they get to spend an afternoon in the water. We...

We had a fun time last night just hanging out upstairs with many of the children. At one point, I counted 27 of them up here … that makes for a lot of noise! But after a while, about 10 of them outlasted the others, the camera came out, and they were having all sorts of fun. Never a dull moment around here, that is for sure. The computer is being kind to me this morning, so I thought I would...

Today was the first day of two that our 4 oldest girls are taking their government exam. When talking with them last night, they were a bit nervous, but really excited about wearing their new pretty dresses that Mama Cheryl picked out for them. I went downstairs at 6:45 this morning and they were all dressed and eating breakfast. I got side-tracked for a minute (imagine that …) and when I walked...