Happy Brithday Mom!

Lets slow this crazy down!

Painting, moving, government applications,

 preparing for work teams, going to New Hope, 

laundry, cleaning= a lot to do in not a lot of time:)

Yesterday I stopped. After church I made myself stop.

I lasted a good few hours. I didn't go work on the new

house. I didn't move things there, But I did get ansty

with so much to do so I thought I would pack. 

I have had bags of coffee and ting sitting ready to carry back

for weeks. As I was packing them I smelled something horrible

I then pulled out the bacon that I had bought weeks ago along

with the coffee and ting. Gross!

Once I had all the bought stuff put in a bag I started going 

through cloths and then I started looking for my swim suit

and couldn't for the life of me find it anywhere. Once again a 

smell hit me and I found my swim suit sitting in a plastic bag off 

in a corner in very bad need of a wash.

 As these kind of things kept showing up I was thinking seriously

have things been that crazy that I didn't notice the smell of bacon sitting out

beside my bed for weeks? Or the smell of a wet swimming suit from that

last team? Sheesh. That got me thinking of what else I have over looked

or had put off.

Thankfully the only thing else I could find was the 2 min. it took to put a 

new light bulb in my bathroom that had burned out months ago:)

Praise Jesus that Holiday Soon Come!

Before I go on Holiday I am going to attempt to apply for 

perminant residency on Wednesday. I have been trying to get

things together for months and hopefully Weds. morning I will

get the last of the needed paper work to apply (hopefully the same 

day). before I leave for the states on Thursday.

Thursday I will be arriving in the States Yay! Please let me know

if you want to meet up and good times for you. I would

love to see as many of you as possible.

Happy Birthday Party

 Yesterday we had the July birthday party at New Hope.

It was So Much Fun!

 Everyone getting a cupcake

(if you look closely you can see the chocolate is around the bottom

of the cupcake since the frosting melted off the top and the cupcakes

were sitting in the frosting for hours:)

 Hope and Shakera the July Birthday Girls.

Some random pictures of the kids.

 Mia

 

 Preston

 Kyle always ready to give you some cheese:)

 Trishanne

 Ciera

 Nathan

 Tafiquie

This little guy has had an itchy allergic reaction

but is handling it like a champ!

 Felicia

 Malcome

All these kids need good families. Please be praying for them.

Hanging out with Noel, Sam and Ciera waiting 

for the birthday party to start.

Thank You Jesus for these kids in my life.

Please Pray

This morning we sent our friends and team members off to the 

states.  Please be praying for Kirk, Keri, Drew, Truitt, Daisha, & Danae

 today as they travel. Please be praying for them in the weeks 

and months to come as they transition

back into states life.

Thanks.

Long time no see!

This month I have gotten to see and catch up with people I don't 

get to see very often. 

 One Sunday I walked into church, sat down, and a little boy ran up to 

me. I smiled at him and then had to do a double take before I realized

I was looking at John, my godson, after not seeing him for the past

year. He has been staying with his grandparents in Old Harbor for the 

last year, but is now staying with him mom in Mandeville for a few 

weeks. I am thankful for the few times I have gotten to hang out and love

on him these past few weeks.

 Its crazy how much love I feel for a kid I don't get to see that often.

Last Sunday before I walked into church I was catching up with some

work team members at JDV who I have worked with in previous years.

and while chatting with them I heard talk that Sue was here with a small team

 for teachers training. Church started and I did the interpreting needed, 

and was thankful that I hadn't seen her yet. Sue was one of my college

 instructors when I went through the interpreting program, and its still a

 little intimidating to be interpreting in her presence. Thankfully I was

 finished with the majority of the voice interpreting for church before

 I heard a "psss" behind me and 

turned to see her:)

Today I was able to spend a little time with her and her team as I toured

them around the KP campus.

Thank  You Jesus for these Opportunities!

Meet Champagin/ Remington Team

This week we have our final team. (Yay!) They are from Remington IN

and Champaign IL. They have spent the week working on finishing up 

 the projects teams have been working on all team season.

(sorry the picture is not great. It was dark and smoky when taken.)

Introducing

Brady Taye Leman

This little cutie arrived at 7;20 this morning

and I just got to meet him via skype a little more

then 12 hours later. 

Welcome to the world little fella.

You are very loved.

Praising Jesus for technology!

With a little time, craftiness and smarts...

You can build yourself a car!

Richard our maintence guy and his friend

Danny (and others i'm sure) have 

been working on this for a while.

It started out as something they could pedal

to carry things around campus...

and soon became a car.

Its incredible what they come up with.

I am constantly in awe at there creativity.

 I love it!

The Wall... Again

 I am back at this wall again. I had gotten rid of this in April when

a team came and repainted the library for me.

Since then I looked at this for a while as we asked teams if any one 

on their team and a true skill for painting murals. We had a attempt

that was not really what we were looking for....

Lesson learned.

I was looking for something simple, but at the same time something

that would fully cover the wall, and it would be okay to have a desk and

book case against it too.

I showed some pictures to Maggie who was on last weeks team,

and this is what she came up with. She drew it out, and then her and

some other very skilled people on the team painted some bamboo

on the wall for me. I like it. Its simple and just what I was looking for

Now, I just need to find a quote, verse, something to paint on the

other side of the wall behind the desk.

Ideas?

Graduation

Last Thursday we had graduation here at KP.

This year we had a really large graduating class since

we graduated a life skills class with our other graduates.

 Marah and Carlyle sharing about their time here at school.

 Charnelle and Andre encouraging the graduating class.

 Accepting the graduation gifts

 Colin the recipient of one of the special awards.

 Andre the recipient of another special award.

The graduating class of 2012.

Congratulations to you all!

Please be praying for each of the graduates as they go out into

the real world and try to find jobs, or college options.

Thanks.