Christmas and a Wedding

We kept quite busy in December with some Christmas caroling and gatherings and then getting ready for a trip to the States.  On December 17 we arrived in IL, and spent 2 1/2 wonderful weeks celebrating our Lord's birth, enjoying a lot of family time, and then celebrating Jamie and Will's wedding!  It was such a blessing!

Once when we went Christmas Caroling at the hospital,

we saw a cute little girl sitting in the middle of the room. Mom and Brenna visited her several more times after seeing her that night.

We are making many memories around our new firepit that we sent on the sea container. 

While we were home over Christmas, we spent a lot of time with our cousins.

We had tons of fun at grandma and grandpa's Christmas.

 Mom and Dad took an overnight trip to Chicago while we stayed with Grandparents.

For new years eve we went to our aunt and uncle's house and stayed up past midnight.

The younger girls fell asleep on the couch.

January 3 was a joyful day as Jamie and Will were married!

Joy, Fred, Jamie and Joan

Jamie, Hadley and Mitch

The three stooges with Grandpa!

We hosted a supper after we got back to Haiti for some of our friends here.

We even had menus for made to order skillet breakfasts.

One of our friends goes down to the hospital every afternoon after school and we sometimes go down and help him.  We go through glasses that have been donated and clean them and figure out the prescription for them.

A Haitian man got trained by a missionary organization (SEED) and wanted to practice his skills at our house.  So, we told him he could dig up the space that the previous owners used for a pool.

Instead of swimming I guess we'll be eating cabbage, beets and lettuce!

By: Toby