What busy happy days!

Well, we haven't posted for a long time, and a lot has happened in the last few weeks. So here are quite a few pictures of life at our house!

Grandpa and Grandma Wenger came for almost a week, and we sure had a good time! The girls loved coloring with Grandma. . . And Grandpa and Grandma took us many fun places as well, to the plaza, the zoo, the "playground restaurant" etc. . . We were glad that Grandpa and Grandma Wenger could be here for Elisabeth's 6th birthday! Here are Elisabeth and Mama making her choice of chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and M & M's. Then right after Grandpa and Grandma Wenger left, we headed out for the long trip to Lima by road. We had an enjoyable trip with Anna, Serenity, and Merlin. . . but then had a sad good-bye! Sniff, sniff. . . we miss them lots! Thanks for your months of love and service! Lima was HOT. But thankfully we got all of Isaiah's documents done, as well as many other documents that we needed to work on taken care of. Praise the Lord!!

Then we picked up Grandma Howe, Helena Howe and Rebekah Esh in Lima and brought them back with us. We spent a happy 10 days with Betsie's Mom. Here she is making cookies with the children. We also went on a picnic with Bob and Noel Rich, the missionaries that we are staying with. They are almost like a second set of grandparents to our children, so it was a special day.

Here are Helena, Betsie's 18 year old sister, and 19 yr. old Rebekah Esh, who plan on heading back to Velille with us for the next 5 months. Helena, Betsie, Samuel, and Rebekah making supper. Charo and Hipolito came over to meet Betsie's Mom. It was a nice last visit before they headed back to Velille, where they only plan to spend a couple of weeks then head on to the jungle for the year. We may not have much contact with them in the next year. Please pray that the Lord keeps on working in their hearts. We are so glad to see them continuing to seek Him. Here we are with our sons, Gadiel 3 weeks and Isaiah 6 weeks.

Grandma got quite the pictures here. . . A picture of all four children:

Samuel says, "I'm bored."

"But what is this? Tickle, tickle tickle. . . "

"Now this is fun!"

Poor Isaiah! You have to grow up fast with 3 older brothers and sisters!

But snuggling with Grandma is still a safe and happy place to be! At 6 weeks old, Isaiah is quite chubby! Here he is in a sweater that his Great-great-Grandma knitted in her 90's! Special! ..................... And that is all for now!