It's a wonderful life!

Pictures to update you all....

 

 One morning I found this beautiful little fellow on the rail outside our bedroom window.

 

 Last weekend Mercy learned to sew- and she did amazing!!

 

 This would be the little church we go to every Sunday in Lejamani...

 

 Sunday School.... can't help but love those deep brown eyes and adorable faces...

 

 Emi has a buddy

 

 Chillin out....

 

The town of  Lejamani - its right by the church, about and hour from here

 

 The new bus in town- they seriously paid a bus fair to ride in this cattle truck just like it was a bus!

 

 Every weekend we WIND through the mountains on crazy S curves, with a crazy driver and it's enough to make you sick, but the mountains and beauty that surrounds us makes it worth it.

 

 SURPRISE!! Ha we got him good-

Monday morning Gaby brought in a cake and all the students sang.:)

 

 "Quiere usted sus vecinos"- learned to give directions in espanol on Wednesday this week

using  the game do you love your neighbor.... the teachers LOVED it!! We played for over a 1/2 hour with most the afternoon students and teachers. 

 

 Building sentences!!

Gaby gives us a red card- an expression of time and a colored verb card and we have to make a sentence.

Ejemplo: "En este momento ustedes estan comprediendo mis palabras."

At the moment you are comprehending my words.

 Shopping at  Del Corral

 

 Everywhere we go we bring piles of tracks-

just to and from the grocery store we could hand out 400-500

 

 Singing in Spanish...

We sang quiet because it wasn't very good!

 

Playing Quiere usted sus vecions?" with our teachers last night. It was a riot! And a great way to interact with our spanish company when we have a very limited vocab. Gaby is in the pink, Jessica  in next to Mercy, with her daughter in the green beside her, and Gaby's Mom is next to Emi.

 



 Listening-

we had to translate back and forth for the kids and teachers so we'd all be on the same page

 A cinnamon roll recipe Emi wrote out for Gaby a few weeks ago...

 

In front of school.... it sure is beautiful here!

Miss you all. Keep praying for the Snyder's, that everyone will learn the language and God will guide and direct them to exactly where he would have them.



  ~This afternoon after school we took the kids and walked down to the Mennonite store. We found out its really quite close to us if we just walk the back streets instead of going way out and around on main roads. They have the best huge cinnamon rolls (we had some at school yesterday during our break) GOOD cheese (eh eh Juli!!) and soft serve ice cream. O yummm.:) They also have a nice pile of Spanish books, kids books, school books and Bibles.

  ~ On our way home from the store, happily licking our melting cones we came upon two women and a little boy, the one lady pushing a huge broken down old rusty wheel barrow with an almost flat tire. It was piled high with fire wood and apparantly  heavy. She would run along pushing it, then prop the tipping side with a board before sitting down to rest. Mateo offered to push it for her. She was grateful. So there we were walking along this dusty street. Matthew(Mateo) with the loaded wheelbarrow, the ladies and boy and Jillian  beside him and then the rest of us trailing along behind. Ocho cuadros- 8 blocks she had to go. Then an older lady and little girl were pulling another load of wood. They stopped to talk to us, asking if we went to Mikes school and what are names are etc.. I love the interaction with the people! It made our day to help them.:) The man of the family or friend, whoever he was came along after 3 or 4 blocks and with a smile took over the load.

The First Impression

The second story here is beautiful!Every day we soak up the wonderful breeze from this barred glass sliding door/ window that overlooks the town. Somehow our room has become the hangout for more than just the big girls.We are so glad to be here, I guess these little guys are too. 

(Same window, from the ground with Nikki behind the camera)

But to tell of our flight, this is David en route to San Pedro. Life is good. We made the flight in a nick of time, found the one child's lost passport and arrived safe and sound. God is good.:)

 Hello Honduras!

 (1500 pounds of luggage... needed a truck in addition to the van. Those airport guys sure got a kick out of the 28 totes that clogged the baggage claim, had to be put through customs, and loaded)

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 Our first day OUT of our prison, I mean mansion, on Wednesday, we walked about five miles exploring the town of Sigu. So many people eagerly took the few tracks we had on us, I wished we had a backpack full!

 We were thrilled to find a market around the corner and this little place where we bought the most yummy tortillas with cheese for lunch. We ate with our fingers.... which may explain the stains on Em's skirt because I was not very neat.

 Spent a day at the Horten's.... They spoiled us with a fabulous american meal 

and wonderful southern hospitality.:) 

 The view out our bedroom window.

A cute little bake stand in the mall. Joanna I took this for you!

House Painting!

 

 It is always awesome seeing the church work together side by side ( & fun fellowship) to tackle a need. This weekend was the third weekend in a row helping friends with the HUGE project of painting their house and we got it done! It was a beautiful day of sunshine, perfect for a good sunburn, with a sweet summer breeze. Baby kicked on his blanket in the shade, kids played in the pool, and meanwhile painters on porches, painters on rooftops, painters in window sills,  painters stretching to dangerous positions on teetering ladders to reach scroll peaks...  all worked steaditly. By the end paint was everywhere from the sidewalk to the baby's arm. It was a good day.

 

We are done!

 

 Jo Jo... so proud of her hard work painting all the porch trim and scroll work!

 

 This is where we started...SO scary up on that second roof!

 I lost some of my fear by the end of the day.
 

(Tough sisters of mine hauling around a 500 pound ladder)

 

Joshua & Joseph

                                                            Newborn.... April 3, 2013 

~Now it's a whole year later and the twins have grown up into some pretty cute little toddlers....Happy Birthday Joshua and Joseph! Their family moved away when the twins were only three weeks old, so having them come for a visit a few weeks ago was a treat. Joshua and Joseph were so adorable playing together, (both tugging and squealing over the same toy at times...:), crawling up the steps, getting into corners and then looking back at their other buddy, I almost couldn't stop watching them! Clara says at home they always keep an eye on each other, Josh crawls down the hall then stops and looks back for Joe and laughs when he sees him coming. 

      

                         

 Joseph

 Joshua

 "Oh, did you need something?"

" Really we aren't the posing type ..."

 "This is getting boring up here."  (Joshua)

"Yup, I'm all done now...." (Joseph)

"Hey everyone and goodbye...

 it's time for our lunch!

(Which was like feeding two birds in a nest! Except they were in Dad's chair and I was trying to keep from being coated with macaroni and applesauce. )

Kim & Ju

Sometimes it just does the soul good to know you have a buddy,

a chum, and comrade who's there, always, regardless of the miles, who knows the moment you're in, who takes time to soak up the sun with you,

who endures the rain with you,

 who takes last minute strolls,

and makes gourmet tea parties after work,

or chats deep into the night....

 

Thank you Lord for these two.