Haiti...Day Eight

Today's traveling day!!!! David and the team in Haiti left for a long 4 hour drive to Port au Prince at 6:30am. I just checked and there flight leaving Haiti has been delayed, only about 20 minutes at this point. I am surprising David and taking him to a hotel tonight. I think he knows though, all this week I've been telling him that the girls and I were picking him up from the airport and yesterday he asked me, "so will you be picking me up alone or are the girls still coming with you?". I'm realizing he is the hardest person ever to surprise. Oh well, we will still have a good time even if he does know.

Thanks for praying for us while he has been gone! We have all felt God's grace upon us each and every day!

Less than 7 hours till David/daddy is home...

Haiti...Day Six

The girls and I were able to talk to David today for about 10 minutes. He said he had to wait in line for the phone and when we started talking the phone battery started to beep - whats with us and dying phones, ours at home do it all the time. Anyway, we didn't really talk about what they were doing today, but I got an email tonight saying that he and Chris Dunlop just found out they were preaching tomorrow. So its like 9pm and they don't have computers or anything other than their bibles. They are excited! I can't wait to hear how it goes.

The girls and I went back to the house for a little while today, really just to get a jump start on getting the house back in order so there wouldn't be so much to do on Monday. Then after nap time, we went swimming - thank God for Mimi and her pool, they have been having so much fun. Meredith even swam to me from the steps all by herself. I was so excited. She is beginning to love the water!!! Her daddy is going to be so proud. As for Alyssa, she just stays on the steps and pretends she is swimming. I guess she can't stay afraid of the water forever, right?

2 days left till David/daddy gets home...

Haiti...Day Five

No real update tonight.

David called, but the hotel phone was beeping because its battery was dying. Then he called on his cell, which cost $1.50 per minute, to say I love you, but I have to go. Needless to say I was pretty bummed, I carry around my cell phone like its an oxygen tank just in case he calls. Apparently the team leaders and the pastor from Haiti were supposed to have a meeting earlier this evening and he had just arrived several hours after the agreed upon time. No big deal, though. I was nice just to hear his voice. The girls and I miss him terribly, but we are glad we are in the home stretch.

We swam all day today. The girls are getting more and more brave each time we swim. Alyssa is the most cautious and although Meredith is more daring I think she picks up some of Alyssa's fear and carries it as her own. But she did great today, she would even jump in from the side of the pool in her little inner tube and was just fine. That's a really big accomplishment for us! Kristen's girls are like fish and my girls are scaredy cats when it comes to the water. Oh well, we all got worn out, but had a fun day.

3 days till David/daddy comes home...

Haiti...Day Four

Just got an update from David. The government is still holding all the medications so the medical team is basically only able to help with minor things. They are staying over night in the mountains and doing the modified clinic tomorrow. The rest of the team is at the orphanage. I only had about 15 minutes to talk to David because they only have a limited number of calling cards and won't be getting more in until sometime tomorrow. Today was his first opportunity to call while the girls were awake, so they enjoyed talking to their daddy. Alyssa asked if she could talk to the girls there because leading up to the trip we took them with us shopping to buy his supplies but everything fun we bought we kept telling them was for the kids and we found the names of the girls their ages and tried to explain to a 4 and 2 1/2 year old that the kids there didn't have parents or toys and all that, so Alyssa wanted to talk to the girls that we had been talking to her about.

The girls and I are holding up. We are at my mom's house now until Monday(when David gets home). We had a play date today with friends from church and tomorrow is an all day swim-a-thon. They begged from the moment they woke up from their naps to go swimming, but is was raining. I am tired, but I really feel God's grace. He is my strength and my only true source of help. I was encouraged by this verse today, “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.”

The trip is half way over, so the count down begins... only 4 days left!

Haiti...Day One...Prayer Request

I got a very brief call from David tonight about a minute and 22 seconds. Jeremy was able to call Kristen and gave her the following update. They have all arrived safely, but all of their medical supplies were confiscated at the customs department in Port-au-Prince. Two of the guys stayed behind today to try and get them but as far as we know they were not able to. They plan on returning tomorrow to try again. Please pray for the workers in the customs department that they would allow the team there to have the medical supplies. If not, they will not be able to set up the medical clinic at all. Other than that they said they were tired. And other than the hotel being warm it is nice with a beautiful view of the ocean.

Haiti...Day One

So far so good!!!

David left the house this morning at 3am to head to the airport for a 6am flight to Miami. They had a short lay over and then flew from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Once they get to Haiti they had a four hour bus ride to Jacmel (I think that's how you spell it). Tomorrow morning the busy days start.

As far as us girls, we all came over to spend time with Kristen and her girls! The girls are doing fairly well. Much better than I expected! They played outside all morning; riding bikes,watering the plants,and watering each other, they even watered their popsicles. We had lunch together and they watch a cartoon then it was off to bed for "naps", although they varied in length and the babies didn't go down until the others started to get up we are having a fun filled day!

I'm off to start dinner and maybe we will be brave enough to take the girls for ice cream, but I wonder if that might make us scream?

Thanks for all your prayers!

David's going to Haiti

This coming Monday, really early in the morning, David will be heading to Haiti on missions trip. He is helping to lead a team that will be doing some work at an orphanage. So he is counting down the days till he leaves and the girls and I are counting down the days till he gets home :) He will be gone 8 days, so its not that long. Two years ago he went to Cuba for 12 days and that seemed like forever. I am looking forward to getting some projects done that I've been putting off for a few weeks and then when he gets home we will leave the next week for a family vacation! While he is gone the girls and I are going to go to the library with Mimi, play with Kristen, Katelyn, Hallye and McKenzie and maybe even some of our other friends. If we have time we may go to get some pictures taken of the girls and maybe even venture into some craft projects together. Pray for him and for us while he is away!