Sickness

There has been a lot of sickness at Bethel Baptist Church in West Carrollton, OH. I thought that I was getting it, but praise the Lord after sleeping almost all day I feel good enough to go to church tonight. I wasn't sure if I would feel good after lunch today, but a long nap with Joey worked.

Audrey has been going to school here the past two days and today her teacher got sick. Though it is only a 24 hour bug it comes with lots of vomiting. We are praying that no one here gets it.

We have been having lots of fun here. The assistant pastor, his wife, and the Spanish class took us to a Mexican restaurant for lunch today. The food was great and it was nice to be able to use our spanish again even it was only to order food. :-)

We have really enjoyed seeing the Hayden family again. This suit that Jordan is wearing is from them. It fits perfectly. What a blessing.

Tomorrow we head to Richmond, IN to be at the Smale's church. I don't know if we will have internet there, but we will see. If not then we will not have internet again until Thanksgiving when we are in Denver.

I am hoping to travel back here on Friday or Saturday as there is a sale at Hancock Fabrics. The Simplicity patterns are on sale for 99 cents a pattern. All of my patterns are size 4 to 6 and Audrey doesn't wear that size anymore. I am hoping to get some cute ones to take back to Honduras with me.

Six years old

We now are proud parents of a six year old. Audrey really enjoyed her birthday. We had a nice time at home with just us. She got to pick her favorite meal for breakfast and dinner. We had pancakes for breakfast and spaghetti for dinner. She was very excited to open her presents after dinner. The cake was not a dismal failure that I had feared it would be. I usually decorate the cakes for the kids, but this time as we were in a trailer with limited space, I bought one of those hard candy cake topper kits from Walmart. I turned out really cute. She loved it. I took some pictures of her opening up her gifts, but the ones of the cake didn’t come out. We have a really cheap digital camera that does not show you the picture that you took. It also defaults to no flash every time the camera powers off. It is a huge frustration on our part trying to use this camera. We really are hoping to get a good camera soon. It is so frustrating to think you got a good picture and then find out later it is all black.

Audrey got some nice things. One of the things that we found that we loved was a pair of earmuffs and a stole that have the pink poodle dog design. She loved them. She went to bed last night with them on. I had to remove them in the middle of the night.

Today we are going to visit with Pastor Gordon who was the assistant Pastor at Faith when we were in college.

This weekend we will be at Heritage Baptist Church in Canal Winchester, OH. This is the church that Jason visited when he brought Carlos from Honduras for the Smales. Last night as I was getting the clothes out of the church dryer with Joey, who was in his jammies, I was talking to one of the church ladies. I was telling her of the blessing all of the clothes donated to us when Jason came with Carlos was. I told her that even Joey’s jammies that he was wearing were donated. She looked at them and told me that those used to be her sons. She was the one who donated them to us. I was amazed as I had no clue who the things were from. I was glad I finally got to say thank you.

Seeing Old Friends

Today we were so excited to be able to go to the Hayden's house for dinner. We got to know them pretty well while on deputation. We had a great time with them. After dinner Karilee and I went to the Ladies Missionary Meeting at Bethel Baptist Church in West Carrollton. I was surprised to see some ladies that I had met in Oklahoma while on deputation. One family moved here thanks to the US Military and the other ladies are now teachers at the Christian school here.

Tomorrow I am looking forward to Ladies Bible Study. Audrey gets to attend school and so I won't have to worry about taking care of her schooling while I am at the meeting.

We had a great time at Heritage Baptist Church in Canal Winchester. We were showered with love and many snacks. :-) One of the ladies in the church gave us a bunch of gifts that we are excited to take back to Honduras for the kids there. We are hoping and praying that we will find a way to get everything back. We are looking into several different options on how to achieve that goal. We are just praying that it won't cost a lot of money.