Finley, Family & Thanksgiving

Well I am still not doing my best at blogging...I was keeping up very well with Facebook. But now we have decided we need to "give up to go up". So, out with the $30/month texting and out with the $40/month internet on our phones. Done. I tell you what, it is pretty freeing. I am not sitting around and just staring at my phone. We actually talk to each other lol. We have had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We are here in Louisiana staying with Maw-maw & Paw-paw. Finley is the center of attention and we love it! We are so very proud of him!

We had our family pictures taken with mom & dad a few weeks ago and I wanted to show a few off so here they are...

Blogging with the cell phone...

well here is the deal I just wrote this great long blog about how amazing it is to be able to use the full internet on our cell phones and how I have no excuse any longer not to be blogging...then I held backspace down for too long and it all erased....pooo. Well hopefully you will hear from me more often...God bless!

More on the Maasai Tribe

Here are a few more pictures of the visit from the Maasai Tribe...Just wanted to give you all a look at what went on while they were here in Illinois... Take a look at their website. http://www.en-kata.com/
Part of the agenda of our evening of fellowship was for us to transcend our cultural and language differences and feel like family. We started the evening by going around and introducing ourselves, and sharing something that we are celebrating God for. Naidine - in the black shortsleeved shirt - translated for us. At points, the Maasai would translate for each other into Swahili and then she would translate for us. Very intersting.

After introductions we shared a traditional, home-cooked meal of ‘Ugali na Supu’, that Karduni, and the ladies made… and everyone tried it... It was basically cabbage soup with hunks of beef and a bread like mixture mixed with ingrediants to make tortillas. The guy in the stripped shirt and the lady in the white shirt serving are from our church and are now Missionaries to Africa nd are helping build the school. They are Jacob and Kim Mills.

They presented Pastor Hal (dad) with a “rungu” club. And Pam (mom) with cards of beautiful Maasai children, to remind them about the school in Maasailand!

In Tanzania, and in Maasailand, rain is such a blessing. It is also a blessing that they have been missing for years now. The En-kata Choir bowed their heads to pray for the rain to come to Orbili, Olerumo and Orkesmet.

Our New Friends - The Maasai Tribe from Tanzania, Africa

This weekend, Grace had a missions group in from Tanzania, Africa. They are a group of men and women from a Maasai Tribe who are missionaries in their country and are raising money to build a school for their tribe. They are amazing! I encourage you to check out their website: http://www.en-kata.com/

Here are some pictures

God is so good...we look forward to taking a trip to see them in Africa in March!

Big Apple Day

Some might think, as I said before, that a mother would enjoy blogging nonstop about her son and the new life her and her husband have...not so much. Not much time. So here is a catch-up blog...

Finley is now 12 weeks old! And a whopping 16 pounds! He is such an amazing baby boy! He eats well, sleeps well (most nights until 7am now) and laughs alot. He smiles almost constantly...except of course when he is hungry (most of the time he is hungry) or has a wet diaper. We took him for his first apple picking on Labor Day. It was blazing hot - but we had a wonderful day with the family. I can tell you... Finley was sweating, Daddy was sweating and the apples were ripe.

Life is so different but never would I have imagined a year ago that we would have a sweet baby boy in our lives now. God is so amazing and all we have to do is ask and He will give us the desires of our hearts.