Izzy is the newest member of our family. My sister gave her to me a couple of months ago and since then we have had fun as a family placing Izzy in various places around our house, she's always up to mischief. We discovered that not only does she have magnets in her hands and feet, she also has a magnet in the top of her head to hold her hat on! This has given us much amusement because she 'sticks' to many objects in our house.
A few weeks ago we were taking turns placing Izzy around the house and I thought that maybe Izzy would like to go to Africa with us and be photographed doing various activities. Izzy is very excited to go on this journey with us and if you haven't figured it out yet, Izzy is the colorful sock monkey sitting between Anna and Deborah!
This picture was taken April 27th and though it's not surprising for us to get snow in April (or even in May) what was surprising was that my lilacs were in full bloom! We were about 3 weeks early this year though I heard on the news last night that it's more like 1.5 weeks early with this latest cold front coming through and slowing down all growing things. The girls were running around trying to catch snowflakes on their tongues.
And the big news tonight is that our house is sold. I'm not going to say we sold it because we didn't, God did it. This whole process has been a lesson in patience and it has been amazing to see God's hand in the whole thing. We are moving out the day we leave for our training in Texas, June 7th.
And yes, that is the other big news........we are less than $100 a month away from 75% of our monthly support so we were given the go ahead to serve with Mercy Ships! We are praying that more monthly support will come in before we leave so that we are much closer to 100% when we leave for Africa mid July.
Please continue to pray for us, I feel overwhelmed most days with packing up the house and trying to figure out what to throw away, what to store and what to take with us.
In other news, the girls have both completed school for this school year and the hitch is on the car so we are making progress little by little.
Until my next post........
