We've been keeping busy enough during our time here! Here's just a random smattering of life. In a very random order because that's just how they got uploaded!
We spent the night at a hotel with the kids for a Christmas present. They had fun, we had fun, I sure hope we do it again:)
All our babies be growing up!
We were at my parents when the newest batch of turkeys came. It was Tucker's first time in the turkey house so I wasn't sure how he would do. But he loved it and had not an ounce of fear! The turkeys were the ones who needed to fear. I have a video where all of a sudden it cuts out because I had to quick put down the phone and rescue the bird from a baby who was holding it by the head and shaking it back and forth!
One morning during the time Danny was back in Haiti, Sawyer came to my room extra early and crawled in with me. And then I had some really sweet snuggle time with my sleeping boy:)
He is quite mobile these days and loves to just go exploring on his own. And then he gets stuck.
Summer has always loved the turkeys!
Three weeks was plenty long for us to be apart. I was more than willing to stay up and pick him up from a late night flight:) And yes, I got all teary eyed when he finally walked into the baggage claim area.
I took Summer to a Jr. High basketball game when my niece was playing. We both had a great time. Me watching the game and talking to other people in the bleachers, and Summer playing with her cousins!
He said "No mommy, I did not sleep in gwandpa's twactor."
Three years ago there was a concert in Indy that I really wanted to go to but it was on Thanksgiving weekend when we would be travelling and we also would have a one month old baby (Sawyer) so we decided not to go. And I was sad. This year, the concert came back around and we went! Their voices were older than what we hear on the radio, but the Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant Christmas was like being with an old friend. Familiar songs I've heard most of my life that just kind of feel like home. And I could hardly stay in my seat when they finished with an awesome rendition of "Emmanuel"! Throw in some great conversation during our driving and supper times and it was a night very well spent!
Again with the exploring. We can hardly get enough of this kid. He's just so fun to have around!
So that's life lately. And to answer the question that everyone has, we do have some plans! Currently we are in Indiana and will be until Dec. 22. Then we will be back in Illinois over Christmas before coming back here for a little bit. If everything goes as planned we will hopefully all go back to Haiti the first week of January! It will be nice to get resettled there and find our normal again. Whatever normal is. But speaking for myself I will say it was bittersweet packing almost everything up from my parents this past weekend. After that being my home base for almost two months, I was really enjoying feeling a part of my old hometown and church again. Just being around everyone and not feeling like it was a rushed hi and bye over a weekend was great. I know it can't stay like that forever, and I don't even want it to. We need to be where God has us and not on a disorienting vacation type thing. But it has been an unexpected blessing to have this time!
