Whoops!

As most of you know we haven't had any real good rain showers in a really long time making things very very dry. Last week we had very strong winds. During one of these very windy days Vince one of our farm workers decided to burn some brush and... as you can see from the picture it got away from him. Thankfully he got it under control right as it reached the security walls of the properties surrounding us.

Hat/Tie Day

Today Started Spirit week in preparation for Sports day next Tuesday. Usually sports day comes at the end of March right before Easter break but for whatever reason it was moved up this year. Today was Hat and Tie day so all the kids had hats and ties.

Paris and I in our hats
Some of my girls modeling their hats

Ms. Boothe and her class in their hats and ties

In preparation for sports day every afternoon the kids run then do there stretching and exercise to get ready for the "BIG" day.

Sports day is something these kids look forward to all year. I am always getting the question what color are you? (which color house do I cheer for? Red, Orange, Purple) I stay neutral and cheer on all my kids:)

The Hubers

Last week I had the opportunity to go hang out with the Hubers for a few hours and capture pictures for their beautiful family.

What a Blessing

4-H

Believe it or not we here in JA have 4-H too!

Some of our kids are involved in 4-H, and last week a group from the 4-H group in Mandeville came in and did a cooking workshop with our 4-H members

cutting up carrots as thinly as possible
Erica and Amoy spreading a liquid butter over dough

Erica and Amoy working with the dough

Lashawna cutting up peppers.
Whatever they were making it sure smelled good!

The Valentine Pictures

Allesha working very hard to put stickers on her valentine.
The finished product

Some of the older kids stamping on their valentines. I didn't have time to take many pictures of them making valentines because I believe I had about 20 young ones in there that all wanted glittery hearts on their cards so I was trying to help them with glue and glitter and not taking pictures:)

After supper the kids had their valentines party with games

and a cake.

Happy Valentines Day

So I took a bunch of pictures of the kids making valentines this afternoon, and was going to post them as I wished you all a Happy Valentine's Day. But then my camera was borrowed, and then someone else borrowed it from that person, and another person borrowed it from that person (this is usually the case in Jamaica). So at this time I don't have my camera to get the pictures off so I can post them. Soon come ya hear.

Tomorrow to celebrate Valentines day I get to make my first solo drive to Mobay. Eeek! I will be following Warren but I will be driving the bus all by myself! Please pray for me tomorrow morning as the 3 hour drive it made! Thanks

Enjoy your weekend.

I love you.

What to do

When there is no water, no electricity, and the kids are in the dorm for the night?

Make a cake!

I had a cake mix just sitting in my cupboard, and cake sounded good. I have a gas stove and it was the only thing that was working. I had to use a flashlight (what I'm using in the pic) to check my cake to see if it was done.

I now have a bunch of cake to get rid of because I don't really want to eat it all myself.

If you want a piece come on over!