Randomness...

The reason I haven't updated my blog in a while is because I thought that I didn't have really anything new to share other than the typical "hey we have a team right now" or "hey I'm just doing school right now." But I was just looking at the pictures on my camera from the last few weeks and realized that I do have a few interesting things to share--and quite a few pictures, now that I look at them. And they're fairly random so I titled this post "Randomness," even though I don't think that's actually a word. (Ha, but I use it all the time--I love that word!)

Amy Green had a birthday recently and we had a little party for her--complete with confetti, balloon animals, three kinds of chocolate dessert, and a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey! 

Katie lighting the candles on her amazing flour-less (on purpose) chocolate cake! It was like fudge!

Chastity and I got to dog-sit Ryan and Caroline's chihuahua Booper while they were at the beach for a couple of days with our two spring interns. She's such a cutie! The darling little yapper even got to sleep in our bed with us ;-)

On the left are our two spring interns (from my home area in Indiana): Ruth and Maryann Miller. Those girls are so much fun! We got to spend a lot of time together during outreaches, and Maryann is actually coming back in a month or so as a summer intern. This is a HUGE answer to prayer for me because she will be helping me full-time as my videographer assistant! She and Ruth just left for the States this morning :(  but Maryann was able to help me film at the various ministry sites this past week. (btw, that's Alberto on the right. He's a teacher at our school in a little community called Mata Gorda. We four had a movie night last night since the girls would have to leave this morning). 

Here are a few photos from the current outreach:

This is Francisco, one of our two artists at the art site, watching two team members paint:

This is Angie Brown, part of a college group from Taylor University that's here right now. I first met Angie two years ago when I was here as an intern. She's such an amazing and fun person! Here she's working with a student at our newest preschool in Los Higos, the community I used to work in.

A boy from the same school being goofy with his play-dough:

Arlene at the social work site, also in Los Higos. On her left are two American students who worked at her site this outreach:

That's about it for now. Tonight I have some video editing to do, and tomorrow I'm supposed to have this outreach team's dvd done and 53 copies made by 5 p.m. (gulp!). So I gotta get to work!