Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Another Guest! Jamie!

 
 Hello!
Aunt Jamie was here! We had a blast.
With market day, the hydro, and pork chops, going to Cayes,
crocheting, basketball at the court, and Haitian church!
It was Great!
 
 
Jamie is here!
 

Hadley made a speed bump! There are huge speed bumps everywhere in Haiti! It kept him busy for a whole afternoon!There is not much traffic where he made it but he thought it would be needed if there was.


 

Pork chops on the grill! Yum!
Grandma and grandpa brought them down for us when they came!
 


 
Jamie and I did loads of dishes while she was here!
There is still always lots of dishes to do!



We had burgers at a Haitian restaurant called Hot Spot!
They were actually pretty good!


 
Market day with Jamie!
Wednesday and Saturday are market days.
This was at Gwo Maren, the market we go to.

 
Mom Zip lining!
We set up a zip line a couple of weeks ago that we got for Christmas.
Ever since we have been using it!

 
Mom and dad's creole instructor got to meet Aunt Jamie.


 
 
Mom  held a Haitians hand at church.
 
 
 
By: Toby Plattner

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Joyful Reunions!

 
 
Hello!!
We have so much to catch you up on from our last month, so we decided to do a lot of pictures and just a few words! 




We enjoyed a day at Wray's Camp in Cayes where they have a waterslide, a gym, and many other fun activities.
 
 
 
 

We daringly tried some grilled chicken that we bought from a street vendor!
 
 
A Sunshine Box arrived from the Wettstein's and made our day!!
 
 
We hired some Haitians to build us some concrete steps to our roof, so we don't have to climb a ladder anymore (with a full laundry basket on the hip!)

 
 
 

Another beautiful Haitian sunset!
 
 

Brenna with her friend Orrin!


The kids had a dress-up day at school, so they went as the Hardy Boys and made Brenna be Aunt Gertrude! 
 
 
We love visitors!!!  Mike, Amber and Jayden Grimm(our dear friends!) came to spend about a week with us!  It was a huge blessing for us to have them here, and we enjoyed some fun activities (and some work!).  The first few pictures are of our visit to Jimmy's bee hives and tasting some fresh honeycomb!
 





Hiking to the hydro is always fun!  The kids love swimming in the waterfalls!

 
 
 
 
Cleaning and Organizing day

 
I was so glad to have Amber here to help me with this mess!!!


Wow!  It's a new room!
 
 

On Valentine's Day we made special heart cookies!

 


 
A couple day after the Grimms left.....  We had a joyful reunion with my parents!
 
 

 
Pops made some Haitian friends!  He used the machete to cut a coconut for these boys!
 

We hiked a short mountain behind our house.

Delicious coconut milk!


My dear mother helped out a lot with laundry etc.!

The last day they were here, we enjoyed a beautiful afternoon at the beach.  We also ate a Haitian meal of chicken, shrimp (with the eyeballs still in), rice, grease gravy, fried plantains and French fries.
 
Mom and Dad also got to be here for the kids' History Fair which they presented on Friday evening at school.  The kids were very glad for Grandma and Grandpa's support!

Brenna was Amy Carmichael.

Hadley was Ty Cobb.
 
 Toby was Sam Walton.
 
Reggie was John Deere.
 
 
We are so thankful for the time we have had with our visitors over the last couple weeks!  It has been a big encouragement for us!
As we move ahead, we would appreciate your prayers as Kurt started his job at the hospital a month ago, and we all are trying to get used to a new routine.


 

 

Monday, January 26, 2015

What's Been Going On?

 
Hi!
Here we have a little review of our past week or so.
 
 
Mom gave a haircut to a Med. student because he is here working at the hospital for a month and needed his hair cut.
 
 
Even Dad helps Mom with laundry because he has not started working at the hospital yet. He plans to start his new job next week!
 
 
We hiked to a different church this past Sunday. It was a poorer church than the one we usually go to. A chicken ran into the church in the middle of the service and there were geckoes crawling on the walls.
 
 
 
 We play basketball with Haitians at the court by the hospital! The Haitians are not that bad at basketball, but they could use more practice.
 
 
Mom took this picture from the roof of our house. It's the palm tree in our yard.
 
 
This is picture of the landscape around our house!
 Mom also took this picture from the roof.
 
 
By: Toby Plattner





Friday, January 16, 2015

It's a Warm Winter

 
 
Hello!
 
 

 
We made Pizza on the Grill! Yum!
 
 
Mail just got here for the first time in about a month.
 
 
On new Year's Day us boys, dad and some other missionaries took a long, awesome hike!
 
 
We had a fun time on the hike!

 
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Mom made French bread!
 
 
While most people in Illinois are shoveling their driveways,
we are mowing our yard.
 
 
Reggie made pumpkin pie!
He used a Haitian pumpkin and cooked it and prepared it for a yummy pie!
 
 
Eew, those are goat legs in a store. They still have the hair on them.
 
 
By: Toby Plattner