THANKS, ERIE!

I would like to thank the Erie team kids who came down to Haiti a few months ago.

In January a team came and they brought a lot of youth. Their ages were between 15 and 18. They were really nice to me and I had a really fun time with them while they were here. At the end of their time here they said "We're going to send a box full of stuff for you. What would you like? I said cereal, or more specifically Apple Jacks, which, as you can see from the picture, they did. 

My favorite meal is tacos and my birthday was coming up and I knew I would want a special birthday dinner so I said to my parents a few days before we received the box that I wanted taco sauce from the US, and they sent it in! That's really special to me so thank you so much. And of course my whole family LOVED the Oreos.

Thank you!!

 

Ice cream!

Here are some pictures from two Sundays ago. 

 

We got ice cream! There was a great ice cream place downtown that we never knew about before that Sunday. Ice cream is kind of rare for us here or expensive, but the ice cream was cheap there. I had some great chocolate ice cream. That ice cream was the best I'd ever had in Haiti. I can't wait to have it again!

One of the things you see here every day you probably won't see in the U.S. At this time of year is the lizard.

Lizards are all over the place here. They come in a lot of different sizes from a foot long to only an inch like this baby one in the picture. They like to hang out on the screens over our windows and by the front porch light, but you can really find them anywhere.

Jesse Tree

As a New Years resolution I'm going to try to make blog posts more often, but shorter. I'll do a picture and caption at the least. So here is my first one this year.

This is my dad finishing the job of taking down all the Christmas decorations last Saturday.

He's holding an extra Christmas decoration we made ourselves at the beginning of December that we hung on the wall. We called it the Jesse tree because that is what an advent book, that we have, suggested. Every day we hung an ornament that had to do with a different lesson in the book that we read leading up to Christmas. The book was about "unwrapping God's greatest gift."