This past Sunday was baby dedication day at our church. If you’ve spent any amount of time with me or Jonathan, you know that we’re pretty comfortable as behind the scenes people. If you’ve ever been to our church, you know that being on that stage means standing before a big crowd, but dedicating Beatrice and [...]
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The Sweet Peach is Dedicated
December 9, 2010More thoughts from a rambling pregnant lady
December 4, 2009More than a few people have said to me lately something like, “it’s great you let Jonathan go to South Africa.” Yes, yes, it’s great that Jonathan is in South Africa, but I did not provide him with the permission to go. Oh, I prayed alright, and I know that if I’d ever said anything [...]
Riches
November 18, 2009My brother kindly informed me yesterday that we have not blogged lately. It’s not that we haven’t been doing fun things, I just haven’t felt like blogging about them. So instead, I’m going to try to finish the posts I’ve started over the last couple of weeks that I never finished/had the guts to put [...]
You’re not tired of hearing about Africa, right?
December 31, 2008Africa. To me it seems sort of cliché to say, We’re going on a mission trip to Africa and yet, the call was undeniable. We were going despite the timing and the craziness of our jobs and the fact that I had no vacation time and that I prefer to travel by myself (I know, [...]
Africa-thank you!
December 30, 2008First, we are so very thankful for our host family, the Meneses, who welcomed us into their home and let us sleep and eat as much as we wanted! Also, we rather enjoyed spending time with them. Here is a photo of us with them on our last day: Also, we could not have done [...]
South Africa Game Drive
December 30, 2008On our last weekend in Durban, we were taken to Hluhluwe Game Reserve. We were SO excited to have the chance to see some African wildlife (other than monkeys) up close! Upon entry to the park, we were all sort of thinking of the Lion King and amazed at the beauty that surrounded us! We [...]
Africa FUN!
December 26, 2008We did some great fun things in the evenings whilst in Durban. We tried Bunny Chow-a local favorite: We got to see the Indian Ocean! We went to a themed restaurant and had our faces painted: We had amazingly delicious coffee from this coffee shop: We tried some local foods: (This is our friend Tami [...]
Holiday Club
December 26, 2008The last official part of our “job” in South Africa was Holiday Club. iThemba Lethu has basically a day camp style program during the week of summer holidays (remember, southern hemi, it’s summer for them!). We were thrown for a bit of a loop when we found out the day before Holiday Club started that [...]
More Africa…
December 24, 2008It feels like I’m in a time warp. What we did two weeks ago seems like both yesterday and last year. At any rate, continuing the “story” of our time in South Africa, after returning from Pennington Beach Camp we went to Glenridge Church with our host families and had a really wonderful time praising [...]
Our time in Africa
December 21, 2008For those of you who are unfamiliar with the schedule of events, we left the Seattle area and traveled to Durban, South Africa on Wednesday December 3rd. Here we are on the plane. Our first transatlantic flight together! Arriving in the evening of December 4th, we were welcomed at the airport by Glenda and Mark [...]