Visiting the dentist

I spent Friday morning at the dentist with 5 kids from HHCH plus Ma (and Jordan of course). Someone has paid for all the kids to go and get a cleaning and any other work that needs to be done, PTL! It was a first time for all the kids to go (besides Godwill, who had the cancer in his cheek). Sara had already taken 11 children last week. Hardly any of the kids owned a toothbrush before coming to the home, amazingly their teeth are pretty good (they've never had a lot of sugar). They have all been very brave and Sandrine was the only one that didn't want to open her mouth. Tim is taking the last batch tomorrow.


I have been running three times a week. It is going great and I am really enjoying it. It's nice to have a little alone time and give my lungs a work out. My stamina is a lot better already. I've also lost 7 lbs this month, 9 more and I will be back to my pre Jordan weight (yay!). When I go out early in the morning there is a lot of people out running, walking,  and exercising. I love seeing the Cameroonian women in the shell suits and trainers with their african head wrappers on, awesome! I have decided that I am more like I horse than I would like to admit. If you've ever seen the movie, Sea Biscuit, he would only run fast if there was a horse for him to compete with. When someone is ahead of me I push myself a lot harder to catch up... nothing like a bit of healthy competition!


Next month we have an intern from Florida coming to stay with us. She'll be here for 2 months, we are really looking forward to it. Delanee will be working with the three little ones at HHCH in the morning and then helping out with Kids Club, library, tutoring, etc. in the afternoons. We praise the Lord for an extra pair of hands, we can sure use them! Some days I seriously wish there was more hours in a day.

Church and the New Year so far

Church went really well today, we had over 50 people, the most so far. It's great to see the new church plant growing and becoming a family. Jake preached last week and 2 people got saved, praise the Lord. This week he taught in the evening service, Josh always goes with him (too late for the little ones so I stay home). It was really cool, Josh told me everything he learnt and even the scripture verse the lesson was from. He is really growing up. Josh is doing a personal devotion every morning too, he sure knows his bible! We're so proud of him. Next weekend we have a church outreach, Jake will be speaking on Friday night, please keep it in your prayers.

Church this morning 

 Some little girls at church

We just completed week 18 of school on Friday, that means we are exactly half way! So far, so good, we are all having a lot of fun and learning lots. Next week we start on a book about the World Wars, really looking forward to that one. Jude has just started playing some educational games on the computer, so that should help keep him a bit more occupied in the mornings.

It hasn't rained here for over 2 months now, everything is parched and dusty. I cannot keep my floor clean! My flower garden is looking kind of sad, I need a sprinkler system, my hose just isn't cutting it. We usually get some light rains at Christmas but not this past year. I am so ready for the raining season to come! It is super cold here in the mornings though, about 55 degrees. I would have my heating on in the States! We just bundle up and enjoy it, once the rains come it won't be so cool. 

Jordan doing her eagle impression. She says "ahhhhg" and flaps her arms, too cute!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!! It has been over a month since my last post. On January 3rd I started getting back into a schedule and have been focusing on that before getting on the web. It seemed to take a bit, especially to get back into the swing of things for homeschooling after a three week Christmas break. But I think we are back into a rhythm again. I have also been running/exercising for an hour three times a week. I've been getting up at 5:30 to feed the baby and then get out of the door by 6. It has been a fight but I think I am finally winning! It does feel great to be working out again and finally getting rid of those baby pounds (you're so worth it though Jordan :). I have also been making sure I get personal devos in everyday and not skip when things get hectic. So the year is starting out great, praise the Lord.

Here are some photos from December. My folks were here for Christmas, it was so nice. We had a lovely time together (it had been almost two years!).

Our Seth turned 8 on December 20th. He wanted a rocket cake (phew, not too hard).

Seth was poorly for his birthday. We were planning on going to the nice hotel in town to go swimming but he just wasn't up to it. At least he was all better for Christmas.

It turned out pretty good. Notice the little blemish in the sky on the left side. I balanced it on cups in a cookie sheet full of water so the ants and roaches wouldn't get to it in the night. But that was no problem for the mouse that had a little nibble on the icing. Oh well, it still tasted good :D.

We found Seth a nice bike for his birthday. He can keep up with Josh now.

We had a great Christmas party at church, it was a lot of fun and three children asked Jesus into their hearts. It was our first children's outreach at the church.

Seth was a wise man and Jude was a shepherd (the other white boy is Noah, one of our missionary friends). I was amazed that Jude went up front as he is usually really shy.

Our little shepherd!

We have a tradition of giving our kids new PJs Christmas Eve. It's lovely for them to go to bed all cosy and feeling special.

Christmas morning around the tree (lots of presents from the grandparents!). We spent the morning at the Children's Home. We waited to open presents till we got back, the boys did so well not complaining, I'm very proud of them.  

We cooked breakfast for all the kids and staff. We all had plenty to eat.

Aruna taking a mouthful

My parents bought the blow up penguin with them. The kids loved it!

All the children got a present and some new shades! It was a lovely morning.

We had our co-workers, the Borns, over for Christmas dinner. We also had another missionary family, the Hams. We all ate way too much!

We had a staff dinner at a nice hotel in town. It was great just to hang out and enjoy good food. 

And of course I had to sneak one in of Jordan. She just turned 7 months and is crawling and is into everything! She is starting to pull herself up on furniture now. She is such a sweety!