A new year :)

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We enjoyed our time here with the girls and our staff and our little family. 

What a JOY it is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ!

It was such a nice break for the girls and we had lots of fun, and were ready for school to start back up after the first of the year! 

The girls were spoiled with more baby doll accessories and dresses! Even two little doll strollers! The older girls love to try and put our younger girls in the strollers sometimes too. 

We had a big staff party and some of their family came too. 

We also had the neighbor girls over and were able to bless them with gifts as well! 

It was a great Christmas in Haiti!!

CFM has made a very exciting but yet very emotional decision to adopt the girls out. 

We are so happy for the girls that they each will soon have the gift of a family. 

After much, much prayer and fasting this decision to adopt the girls out was made. 

Knowing that what we truly want for each of them is to know they are loved and to have a place to call their home and a family to love and care for them. 

Though each of the girls are so loved and cared for very well, we know as they get older having a mother and father that are there for them and love and guide them and share Jesus with them is our hope and prayer for them. 

We are trusting God and prayerfully moving in this direction. 

We would appreciate your continued prayers for the girls as the next couple years will have some big changes for them, moving with a new family, a new bed, new brothers or sisters, new parents, new schools, new places, a new country....

We pray that during this process the girls would continue to know they are loved and cared for and that their Father in Heaven would be their comforter, their all in all. 

We trust God that this is HIS will for them and this is going to be a happy time for them and they will know they are loved and wanted. 

Please also lift up our board for their continued decision making and Eric and I as we seek out the best way to go about the process of adoption and especially we ask that you begin to pray for the families God has chosen for the girls. 

Thankfully I am reminded today that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever more. Hebrews 13:8

Birthday Girls!

Thinking of the girls and though they have been through a lot in their short lives they are still filled with so much JOY! I pray we can each challenge ourselves to be joyful always.

"Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: Rejoice!" Philippians 4:4

We've got the JOY, JOY, JOY, JOY down in our hearts!

where...?

down in our hearts!

where...?

down in our hearts!

We've got the JOY, JOY, JOY, JOY down in our hearts

where?

down in our hearts to Stay!




Here are some photos of the fun we have had lately!

The Birthday Girls of December! Genese and Kiara

love the hair... Saturdays the girls get their hair braided, they look so cute the short time its undone. 

 We pray that you may all have Joy in celebrating the birth of Jesus this Christmas!

tree up, check. nails done, check.

It is a good thing we are not ocd when it comes to putting up christmas trees and thinking it has to look a certain way... :) We had fun letting the girls and Cohen put up the tree yesterday. Eric put on the Christmas cd we brought with us and right away that got us all in the christmas spirit!  Of course there was a lot of dancing first then we realized our time was limited before dinner and we needed to get to work.  I love that the girls love to dance, and that they don't judge Eric and I on our not so smooth moves. They just get a good laugh, especially with Eric. It is funny I have noticed a few moves some of the girls have picked up from us and you can usually tell because it's when they are not really in rhythm.. hopefully they can teach us a thing or two.

We can't wait to spend our first Christmas in Haiti with these lovely little ladies! I am thankful to be removed from the shopping madness and the stress we can bring on ourselves with buying gifts and trying to figure out when we would be with this family and what food we would eat. Of course the gift part won't be as easy to run to the store but it will be fun to have to be creative and know no matter what it will be appreciated, and with the food... well rice and beans of course!

I am thankful and excited to share the story of Christ's birth with the girls and Cohen. Knowing it won't be the first time they have heard it but hoping each time they hear it they understand more and more of our Heavenly Father's love for us.

The tree did turn out great in the end! You might just have to wait until Christmas to see it. :) 

This is the next morning... Cohen and Kiara rule the house in the morning when the big girls are at school. 

Eliana and Kiara wanted their nails done, they loved the attention and getting pampered. Unfortunately the older girls were not too happy they are not allowed to wear polish to school.

Blessings to you all! Always be praying for Gods love and protection over each of these precious lives.

Our thanks to the fullest...

On a rainy Sandy Hurricane day we all had to say goodbye to two very amazing people and their cute little man. This was not an easy thing for anyone to do to say the least. But knowing it was all in Gods plans and He is guiding each of our continued steps for us here and them there we can have peace to know it is well.

We knew this was going to be a harder transition for us then even moving down here. Gods Grace is enough for us and he is covering us. We are so thankful for the last couple months. To be able to do ministry with family is such a blessing. We loved every day we were able to spend together and considered it a gift from God!

Jared and Jalayne to say that our staff, and girls here are thankful for you is an understatement. They are more then thankful, you have changed each of their lives for the better by loving them and sharing Jesus with them and they are truly blessed and forever will be grateful for the time they had with you here in Haiti.

Praying for Gods continued provision in your lives and that he keeps you healthy and warm this winter.

We are proud of you, we love you, we miss you, we are so thankful for you, and we are so thankful for the ministry you have done here.

We all have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!