I thought this was cute

If you have ever visited this wonderful country (real Jamaica not resort Jamaica) as you

drive around you commonly see animals whose owners tie them up alongside the road

during the day to eat then come collect them later and take them home. As I opened the library

for play time after school one of the boys came to me asking for the

donkey and I told him to go look in the toy box. Later as I noticed this (pictured above)

Jessimar had found his donkey and tied him up while he went to play (the donkey sat like this for about 2 hours) then after play time came back to collect him and take him home

(put him back in the toy box). To Funny!

My favorite signs to see!

"Erin.... Today I opened my heart and

accepted Jesus as my Savior!!!"

Praise Jesus for Great Days Like This:)

Praising Jesus For 15 Years

Last Friday Plattners, Blake and I drove to MoBay for a weekend away.

We arrived Friday evening got supper at pork pit YUM! Then to the

Toby Resort to watch the boys play in the pool.

Saturday I had the most AMAZING day sitting on the beach.

The day was perfect and so RELAXING!

Sunday we went to CCCD MoBay to attend their

15th Anniversary Special Service

It started with a scripture reading
Greetings from Mr. Kerr-Jarrett
(his parents donated the land to build the school)

A song from hands in praise

The Amazing and SO POWERFUL Lifehouse Everything skit

Ms. Russel (MoBay Principal) and Mr. Reid (her right hand man)

The MoBay staff singing praises

I LOVE watching Jodian sing. She sings (signs) with her entire heart

and with NO shame. Here she is signing "Your Excellent Jesus Your Excellent"

while the staff sings behind her

(Jodian has partial hearing)

Pastor Damion finished the service by sharing with us from God's word.

I was helping to voice for this part of the service and was not able to take pictures

and focus on voicing at the same time so no pictures of that:)

Praise Jesus for Great weekends away and for 15 years of ministry

for the MoBay school

Sea Container

I am WAY behind on blogging. I just have not been home. A week ago

today I was up at 5 ready to go by 6 as Chad, Kirk, Blake, and

I drove to MoBay to get the sea

container out of port and get it distributed

Our Goal.... Get it all done in one day...

Reality... we spent the day at mega mart, the beach,

parked at the port, the airport, out to find lunch, the realization we were

not going to get the sea container so the game plan was to try again the next day

On Tuesday we tried again getting our container at about 11

two hours after the port opened

Moving from the container to the box truck
Stack is to high and can't fit in the truck

Chad to the rescue to fix the problem

deciding what will go next into the container

Chad, Kirk, and Blake when the first load is ready.

These days were SO LONG and I didn't get very many pictures

but I once again LOVED getting to help distribute the donations

and catch up with those at St. James Infirmary, Blossom Garden,

New Beginnings, Hopewell community, Manchester Infirmary.

Thousands of Pictures!

They say if you take 100 pictures you may get one good one. So in the last few weeks I have taken thousands literally as I have tried to capture Christmas and Family Pictures for The Hubers, Plattners, and all the families at JDV. These people are my family and I LOVE being able to do this for them each year.

Here are a few:

Pastor Damion, Felicia, Pheobe, Danae and Caleb Campbell

Wayne, Andrea, Cheryl JohnsonNigel, Bianca, Doreen, Roseanne, Rhonda Johnson

Sheldon, Simone, and Ashley Mckenzie

Cresmore, Erica, Brianna, and Lance Fletcher

Newly engaged Ionda Campbell and Kadene Marshall

Chad, Pam, Paul, Anna, Tim, Emma, Dylan, Lucas, Elyse Huber

Kirk, Keri, Drew, Truitt, and Daisha Plattner

Friends

Wow! What a Blessed BUT Busy last week!

Thursday Blake and I drove to MoBay to pick up friends that were coming

(mostly to see Blake but I tagged along:) to spend the week with us here in Ja!

The game plan.... we didn't have one other then to do as much as we can

and have fun doing it.

The first day we took them to the Dr. Cave's beach and it rained... no pictures

The second day we took them to ocho rios, Dunns River Falls,

and we had both rainy and nice weather

I was cold just about the entire time but the only sun was shining

on the water so I had to get in to enjoy the sun
(Kayla and I )

That night we went to Glistening waters ate supper then went for

a night boat ride out into the water. Because of a bunch of different

variables the water "glows" when you swim in it and its VERY visible

at night, and very cool to watch the water change and watch yourself glow

when everything around you is pitch black.

We attempted pictures and video but all we got were black screens:(

Saturday we spent the day at the MoBay School and

I got to have fun with the kiddos

I helped Peta comb out her braids until it was time to go

Saturday night we arrived in Mandeville and everyone came over

to my place to make lettuce wraps. I had never

had them before but they sure were yummy!

Sunday night we drove to Kingston. I was thankful to find some

work helping one of the teachers.

Playing with the kiddos
Hannah and I
Making Breakfast Monday Morning
Bacon and Pancakes...mmmm... good!

We had patti's for lunch then to devon house for ice cream!

I LOVE my Kingston kids and hate that I don't get to spend as much time with

them as I would like but CHERISH the time I get to spend with them.

(Tissy-Ann, Me, Tissiana)

Tuesday we took the girls to Y.S. Falls

(Jaimie and I)

Leaving the falls

Then we were off to the best sea food restaurant on the island

Little Ochie

(the lady taking our picture didn't know how to as she cut me 1/2

off and Ionda completely off:)

Sitting in the boat waiting for our food

In Jamaica they leave the head on the fish when they cook it.

They think you need to look your fish in the face as you eat it

and the best part! They leave the "delicacies" (the eyes) for

you to eat!

Jaimie and Blake enjoying this delicacies!

Back Home!

After about 2 weeks gone I am FINALLY Home!

It feels SO GOOD!

I now have HUNDREDS of pictures to edit for friends

A disaster of a house to clean

and prepare myself for possibly being in MoBay part of next week

God is Good

pictures of Last week soon come!