All hands on deck!

Just some random pictures of activities around here, that the children enjoy being involved in...

...folding laundry...

dishes...

Mud cookies, anyone???

of course we have to make our houses... see how they dug a hole and buried that red tub?

Pictures to color...

Garlic and spices to pound...

beans to shell...

and there's always meals to be made... :-)

*photo credits to Marc*

Seven!

Yesterday was this young lady's 7th birthday. I can hardly believe how the time flies. Seven years already?! :)

She was absolutely delighted to bake her own birthday cake. It was a green jell-O cake. :-) I had so many things to catch up on after being in the States for a week, so the birthday celebrations were on the quieter side. But Cherlise loves puzzles, so she was thrilled to spend time with Mommy and several of her siblings putting a brand new puzzle together.

Our dear "Lili", We are so thankful for you. It's a delight to watch you thrive in school and mature in so many ways. I love to watch you so gracefully twirl in the yard for sheer joy and love of life. We pray that God would raise you up to be a woman who loves Him passionately and serves Him faithfully - for His glory!

Hello!

It's been a while hasn't it? I always feel bad for those of you who faithfully check the blog. I'm sorry it's been so long since I updated. We're all doing well. We had visitors here for the last part of April; of course that makes our life more hectic. I have lots of pictures that I hope to post soon. In the meantime, here's a picture of all of us that we quickly posed for on Sunday afternoon just before our visitors left.

PS. Thank you to those of you who prayed for rain! It's been raining a lot, and we once again have a cistern half full of water! Praise the Lord!

Springtime in Haiti

Our weather might not change much year round, but you can still tell it's springtime in Haiti by the animal babies that appear! This colt made his appearance yesterday morning...

The children think they ought to call him Larry, because the mom's name is Lily. :-)

I don't know if it's my imagination or not, but sometimes I think there's something about him that looks like a mule! Maybe that's just because I was always used to my stockier Haflinger foals in the States???

And these twins are about a week old...

She is all action... kids are so entertaining!

Finally! She stood still just long enough to pose for the camera. :-)

Pray for rain...

Good morning from the mountains! It's a beautiful sunny morning with barely a cloud in the sky. It's awesome when it comes to hanging laundry out to dry... but we've been having an unsual "rainy season". We have been getting very little rain. It might pour for 5 minutes or so and that's the end of the rain that we get... Would you all please pray that God would send us rain? The water level in the cistern is getting very low. It's been dry enough that we could have trouble hauling water from a spring, because the springs are really low too... We're loving all the sunshine, but we would be soooo thankful for rain! I'm so glad that we can trust our Heavenly Father to supply all our needs... Thank you for praying!

The view of the sunset from our porch on Good Friday was awesome - I know I post a lot of sunset pictures, but I can never help posting yet another one. :-)

Mangoes, anyone??

My children love mangoes!

They beg for them all the time when we have them.

Don W. brought a whole big box of them from their home in L. We were all thrilled!

Mangoes... anytime... any way...

anywhere... :-)