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. Â 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 [...]
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 [...]
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! Â 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Norm heads to the airport in ONE hour!
Well its that time again! I will try to keep you up to date with Norm’s travels home! =) Yeah! We are so excited to have Norm back home with us! Canaan is getting pretty excited! We made a paper chain, one link for each day daddy is gone and each morning we tore one [...]
Trip to Kindia
Norm was able to go on a little over night trip to a town named Kindia. He, Pastor Samuel and Charlotte went. From what Norm has told me, they had a GREAT time! I thought I would post a bunch of the pictures for you to see. If you want to see the rest of [...]
Shipping and Monster Jam!
First I will try to give you an update from Guinea and then from California! Norm is working so hard to get out house all packed up and shipped to Dakar. He has been sleeping about 5 hours a night so that he can get as much done as possible and try to work during [...]
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