A few updates rolled into one… :D (birthdays, family visits, food!)

We had a Crawfish boil at Dwights sisters house for his other sisters birthday!  …This is his niece… aren’t they cute hanging out together?She made us a garden…how cute is this!!!Later she was sitting in his lap…love her legs crossed like a grown up! Look at this cute guy I spotted at the mall!!! While there we got some Minchies… yum.Some of my family from Atlanta came to visit…. this is me and my cousin Thomas! He just lost a tooth…can you tell?!Hope you liked the pics?!  I will have more blogs soon… life has been busy… but whats new… we should just let people know when life is slow… don’t ya think? 

Haiti Mission Trip

In may we will be going on a mission trip through our church (Healing Place Church) to Haiti. The trip is for 5 days during May. We would appreciate your prayers and if you would like to partner with us by giving please click the donate button below. We know that God is faithful and He always provides when He calls…so we are not focusing on the money but instead focusing on the lives we will be able to touch and change during our time in Haiti.

There is a HAITI page on our site that we will update after the trip with pictures and our stories!

A little bit of information about Haiti:

Haiti covers 10,714 square miles (24,750 square kilometers). It is located in the subtropics on the western third of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the Caribbean, which it shares with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. The neighboring islands include Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Three-quarters of the terrain is mountainous; the highest peak is the Morne de Selle. The climate is mild, varying with altitude.

The mountains are calcareous rather than volcanic and give way to widely varying microclimatic and soil conditions. A tectonic fault line runs through the country, causing occasional and sometimes devastating earthquakes. The island is also located within the Caribbean hurricane belt. For most of the nation’s history the official language has been French. However, the language spoken by the vast majority of the people is kreyol, whose pronunciation and vocabulary are derived largely from French but whose syntax is similar to that of other creoles. With the adaption of a new constitution in 1987, kreyol was given official status as the primary official language. French was relegated to the status of a secondary official language but continues to prevail among the elite and in government, functioning as a marker of social class and a barrier to the less educated and the poor. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world. It is a nation of small farmers, commonly referred to as peasants, who work small private landholdings and depend primarily on their own labor and that of family members. There are no contemporary plantations and few concentrations of land. Although only 30 percent of the land is considered suitable for agriculture, more than 40 percent is worked. Erosion is severe. Real income for the average family has not increased in over twenty years and has declined precipitously in rural areas. In most rural areas, the average family of six earns less than $500 per year.

Master Bedroom Mini Makeover…One step at a time!

When I moved in to what had been “Dwight’s house” the merging of our things started!  The process of figuring out what we wanted where and what colors we would use in each room and all of those types of things started too!  He did not have curtains up in the master bedroom…sooo it was KINDA bright…and I like it DARK when I sleep soooo I put up the curtains I owned already in the mean time….buuuuut they didn’t really go with the new bedding we got as a wedding present!:So I decided to get some curtains with the money we got in exchange for returned gifts…(we had registered with the hopes of selling the house and having an apartment in Baton Rouge…but that did not work out so some gifts were not usable in the house). I got one set on a whim and brought them home only to discover… WRONG color!!! sooo they didn’t even make it up on the rods for a photo! The next time I went with a plan and brought a pillow cover with me to help me decide!I went with the blue! Got them home and hung them up…. and Love them! My next goal is to move the bed to the wall on the right… it is a blank wall… I want to move the bed to give us more space in the room and ALSO so we can have a headboard!  That post will be coming soon… making a headboard out of 2 bi-fold louver doors! 

Chick Night at Healing Place Church – Charlotte Gambill

CHICK NIGHT at Healing Place Church was great this week! Charlotte Gambill spoke…and man was it powerful! I am really hoping that they put it online ASAP so that I can share it or at least give yall the link!

The theme for this CHICK NIGHT was Warrior Princess!