The Lost Month of April

Well I just realized that April is pretty much missing from our blog... so this is one LONG post to get you all caught up and ready for May.
This may not be in chronological order but...
we enjoyed the orchid extravaganza (Ian & Nad next time you need to come for this event!) The location was beautiful, the orchids were amazing, the colours were stunning and it was a really nice day out.

That same day we went to a friends house and celebrated her 1st birthday with a pool party! Lots of Maia and Levi's little friends were there so it was fun to watch them "swim" and have a good time together.

Levi and Julianna haning out in the car seat section

Maia swimming with Esther and friends

Adoration Christian School finished up it's second of three controles. We had a program for the parents with awards given out to the top achievers in each class as well as students who always come to school and come on time! The program was well attended and students were eager to get their report cards having done a lot of class time, studying, homework and exams during this second controle. The school is now on the final stretch will school finishing off in the middle of June.

Randy hard at work collecting contact information from families

In between here we had two different visitors come in and join us for a couple days. Pastor Bernie from the PCA joined us for the weekend to visit Pastor Octavius and his family and after him Bernie Pennings from Word and Deed joined us for a visit to discuss the Adoration Project (which is now a project supervised by Word and Deed). Both visits were enjoyable with some intense conversations about the work that is being done here.
And then we celebrated Easter!
Friends of ours had an Easter get together for the kids. Maia had her first experience with painting Easter eggs... too bad she had those hard boiled eggs cracked, peeled and in her mouth before we could get them in the paint buckets!

The kids were told the Easter story using plastic eggs that each had something inside to remind them of a part of the Easter story.

Apparently our Easter weekend was so exhausting that not even Dora could keep Maia awake...

And to finish off the month we've just been doing the regular... eat, sleep and work.

Levi hanging out with big sister Maia

One Happy Little Man!

So... that catches you up on April, hopefully May gets a little bit more time and attention on the blog.

Martelly

Preliminary Election Results are in and it looks like Martelly won with 67% of the vote. We could tell as soon as the announcement was made that the people were happy. There was a lot of yelling, music and victory gunshots in the streets. Keeping Haiti in prayer.

Opa & Oma!

Opa and Oma were just here for a 10 day visit. During that time Maia and Levi got spoiled with LOTS of attention. Maia took full advantage of having Opa and Oma all to herself, just ask Opa how many times he had to read the same book! We enjoyed having my parents around as well, although we got our fair share of whoopings in Qwirkle at least we didn't miss the double Qwirkle for 26 points (Opa!) Thanks Mom and Dad for visiting, for being able to witness Levi's baptism, for taking us to the beach, for playing bocce and Qwirkle with us, for working at the school and for pruning all the trees in our yard!

When we were at the beach with Opa and Oma we saw Jim Carey! It's a little random piece of information but thought it was blogworthy :)

Levi's Baptism

On Sunday March 27 Levi Casey was baptized! He was given the sign and seal that he is a covenant child of the Lord. It was a beautiful service because we could witness the baptism of our son but also the baptism of three other adults in our church who recently professed their faith. God is good! Enjoy the pictures from Levi's special day... The special cupcakes The three adults being baptizedPastor Ben praying for Levi after he was baptizedThe churchMaia and her friend JaydenOur blessed little family The after party... good food and good fellowship!And, one very serious game of bocce!