Saturday!

I love Saturdays... When I can sleep in!

Hello Friend. Thank You for helping me to wake up.
As I was waiting for the water was boiling so I could make my coffee
I thought I would start Taking pictures to document my day.
'To Do':

first 'to do' of the day was to finish scrapbooking my page for
Jenn and Josh's wedding next week. Its been FOREVER
since I have scrapbooked. So Fun!

carving pumpkins while making sure to use the inside of the
pumpkin and not waste it.

The bestie came over and wanted her hair like me and Laurens
So we took a picture:)

baked some pb cup cookies for our woman's bible study
tomorrow after church. Yum!

The finished products.
Lauren cut out 'Jamaica' with a heart where we live, and I
made a typical Jack O Lantern copying the face of Jevaughn
that always makes me laugh:D

Ran up to the library quickly to varnish the counter tops
while there was a break in the rain.

then came home to watch the Illinois game while

the cinn/sug/nutmeg covered pumpkin seeds baked in the oven
YUM!

I love that the last few days have been 'cold' enough here in
JA that I can bust out the jeans and sweatshirts.

:) A little bit of fall that makes me smile.

Thank You Jesus for Great Days!

O Boy!

Meet Jevaughn.
95% of the time this kid makes my day just by
being himself. The other 5% of the time he is finding trouble.

Last night we were all out in the courtyard after the kids got done
with supper. I was playing with some kids when I noticed one of the
older boys who needed to pull up his shorts that he was trying to wear to low.
As I was debating going over and calling him out on it, Jevaughn
,trying to be sneaky, ran up behind him grabbed his back pockets and
yanked down his shorts. I started laughing and simply signed "serves you right"
when the older boy, who just happened to be talking to his girlfriend, whipped
around to beat whoever just dropped his drawers for him.
Hahahaha!

Movies

Here are some movies I randomly found on my camera. Sorry two of them are sideways and I don't know how to change that. 1 video is of Imari dancing, then other kids jumping in. Imari loves to dance and constantly shows me his new moves:). One is of Jevaughn. This kid just makes me laugh. In that video it shows you just how much fun you really can have with an empty juice box:). And the 3rd video shows the kids playing with one of the rabbits...poor thing!
Enjoy!

I have noticed...

That after school....

or around my house...

any time really if I am sitting down...

there is usually someone on my lap.

I kinda love that:)

and on days that I am really tired the kids are willing
to switch roles and hold me too:)

Thank You Jesus for the blessing of my kids!

4 Years

Today, 4 years ago, I moved to Jamaica.
Praising God for this Blessing!

Mobay Weekend

All last week it rained. Saturday Morning it was raining, BUT
A group of us loaded up the car and drove to Mobay for the weekend.
We drove in rain all the way there. Grabbed Port Pit for Lunch. YUM!
and by the time we finished lunch the rain had stopped and we made
our way to the beach.

It wasn't a typical sunshiney Jamaican day but it was hot, and
it was no longer raining!

this little guy was about the only one on the empty beach with us.

The water felt AMAZING! It was warm and where I spent the
majority of the afternoon.

we took a break from the water to burying Daphawn in the sand.


The next day was beautiful and sunshiney and we spent the morning
back at the beach.

AHHHHHHHHHHH! The Life!

Chilaxing in the ocean

Daphawn wanting a picture with Lauren

Typical Tashi! O' how I love this girl.

A perfect way to end the morning before going back to MV.

Monday we drove Blake, Tashi, and Daphawn back to Kingston

And while we were there we thought it best we introduce Lauren

to the original Devon House for Ice Cream! Yum!

Thank You Jesus for Great weekends with Great Friends!

Happy National Heros Day!

Best Friends

Shout Out For Semaj!

Meet Semaj.
She is a fantastic girl from our Kingston Campus that
will soon graduate and desires to go to college.
Her story can be found on Blake's Blog
@ www.blakewidmer.blogspot.com Under the title
"You Gotta Read This Q&A Post!!!
Please take the time to read this and pray about it.
Thanks!

A Day Away

This is what I got to do on Friday.
Hang out in the pool and read my book.
It was nice!

After a few hours at the pool at Y.S. Lauren, Joanne, and I
went to Little Ochi for supper.

Thank You Jesus for Days to Run Away!

John 13

Tuesday night -Thursday morning we had the privalige to host a
Samaritans Feet Team

They follow the teachings of John 13

And because they all signed they were able to share stories about
Jesus and His love to the students while they washed their feet and
presented them with new shoes.

This picture makes me laugh Sam was washing Tajay's feet
and Tajay just sat there watching him for the longest time.
Then he asked ( as you can see in the picture) if Sam was
Santa Clause:D

The process:

The classes came in and Joanne would give them a wrist band

Tim would measure their feet

and write their shoe size on their wrist band

they would sit down and someone on the team would wash
their feet.

and dry them while they looked for a pair of
shoes in their size

Glo would give them short foot massages.
Then we would give them shoes and they would be on there way.

some of the boys taking their school shoes to the dorms after
getting their new shoes from the team.

the older kids looking at the little kids new shoes while they waited
for their turn.

feet getting used to the cool water

Damian my water boy who kept bringing us
clean water to swap out as we washed feet.

I was excited to be able to take over for some of the team half
way through the students/staff. I loved being able to serve my kids
and those I work with in this way.

The entire Samaritan's Feet team.

Thank You Jesus for willing servants who follow your example.