Happy 28th Birthday Daddy!!!
Happy birthday Norman! We love you so much. You are our hero. You rescue us each and everyday and you take incredible care of us. None of us could ask for better. You are an incredible father, husband, son, friend and best of all follower of God! Thank you for being the leader and being [...]
Read onEmmaus is one and a half years old!
Can he really be 18 months already? How time flies! He truly is little monkey. He loves to entertain and make silly faces. I just realized the day of that it was his half birthday. We had celebrated it when Canaan turned 1 1/2 so I thought we ought to do it with Emmaus too! [...]
Read onSenegalese Utilities!
This is my washing machine! Luckily we pay someone to wash our clothes for us. This would take me a few hours day! We are hoping to either buy a new washing machine or get ours from Guinea shipped up! We shall see. Senegalese dryers (roof tops). We plug everything into these voltage regulators, there [...]
Read onSome pics!
This was our first American style meal here in Dakar. Our hosts are still cooking our meals for us. Which is good and bad all at the same time! haha! We miss familiar food. But the time together and the culture learning is so valuable. This is egg salad sandwiches on sub style bread we [...]
Read onWe are leaving on a jet plane!
Our time here is almost over. What bittersweet times it is for us… looking forward to so much and leaving so much behind. We are so extremely sad to leave our families and all that we call familiar. But we are so comforted by God and his perfect plan for our lives and the lives [...]
Read onTrying to stay organized! 2.5 days left!
Today we did a lot of organizing, sorting, packing and that kind of stuff. I have been trying to keep my brain in order. Instead of having a million things floating around in my head, I try to write everything down. I have several sheets of paper floating around. At the begining of the week [...]
Read on4 days! Seriously?!? Shopping!!! BBQ Sauce!
4 days left. We are definitely feeling it now. We have been pretty busy. All of our time is scheduled and filled up! We are really hoping to get all of our running around, organizing, packing, etc done as soon as possible. We have a few things we would REALLY like to do if we [...]
Read on6 days! Last Sunday! Geocaching! Senegal fact #12
Wow! Today was a crazy day! Wonderful and tiring! =) We went to all three services at church. It was fun sitting through the worship part of each service and singing the song set 3 times! We were able to share the very basics with each service about whats up with us. Then after church [...]
Read on17 month comparison!
Emmaus looks so much older than Canaan! But actually Canaan is about 3 weeks older than Emmaus in these 2 photos! Emmaus is much leaner and taller! But guess what?! Canaan has grown FIVE inches in the last 10 months! No wonder all of his pants go up to his ankles! He only gained 3 [...]
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