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24 days! Senegal history part 2

24 days left! Crazy! Yesterday I (Deb) made some whole wheat dinner rolls and cinnamon raisin swirl bread. I have been trying to get better/quicker at making breads and things that I can easily make in Africa.  I have also been prefecting some healthy banana bread muffins, we can get pretty much everything for banana [...]

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31.03.2010 Family1 Comment

1 month and 14 month comparison

Our two boys are so different! We just love watching them grow in their own ways! Here are a few pictures to compare how different they are using 14 month pictures and 1 month pictures. Canaan is now 4!!! And Emmaus is 16 months old. Wow time flies!

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25 days left and Senegal fact #3

The days are going by so fast! Last night we had the pleasure of having dinner with friends Doug and Annette Coe. We had a great time talking with them about Senegal, ministry, life, and lots of fun chatting and laughter. We met them through my dad. My dad is a kitchen and bath designer [...]

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28 days, supply buying and fact #2

Well, today is Saturday! That means in 28 days we will be boarding a plane for Dakar, Senegal! Wow! Its coming so fast.  Today my Grandpa “Papa John” took us out to lunch and then did a little supply buying for our time in Senegal. We had a fun day. Around noon we headed off [...]

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29 days! Senegal Fact #1

We have 29 days left! I know that we really tried to tell you all a lot about Guinea when we moved there. So I thought we would try to count down our time with some facts about Senegal. We have planned for so long to move to Guinea and its a little bit of [...]

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The countdown has begun! One month left!!!

Wow, can it be true? One month from today we will be headed off to Senegal, West Africa!  We are so excited to get back into the swing of things over there. Soon as we get back we will start right back into our language and culture learning. We will likely be doing classes each [...]

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Canaan is 4!!!

Happy 4th birthday Canaan! We can hardly believe you are FOUR! What a big boy you are now! You dress yourself, you go potty by yourself, you can buckle yourself in in the car! You are getting more and more independent every day! We had such a fun day celebrating! We woke up at 7:30 and opened [...]

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He is on his last flight!

Yeah! Norm will be home this evening. He is currently flying somewhere between Paris and California. I was able to talk to him for a while, while he was at the airport in Paris. He was quite tired, but he was able to find the long comfy lounge chairs they have there. Hopefully he was [...]

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He is in Paris!

I just talked to Norm and he is safely in Paris. He now has an 8 hour layover! He is so wishing to be home now, instead of all this traveling! We are so excited to have him home soon! We looked to see if they had any flights that came in sooner, which they [...]

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He is sitting on the airplane!

I just got off the phone with Norm and he is sitting on the plane, ready for his first flight! The goodbyes were hard but good. All of the checking in and security check points went well. He sounds a little tired… but that is to be expected. He said it felt really nice to [...]

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