A Country In Need

Check out this article from the Kansas City Star newspaper. Dr. Jim & Sandy Wilkins left my home church in Kansas to move to Haiti and begin a medical mission there. Their daughter, Rachel, has been a good friend since high school. Please pray for the Wilkins's. They are safe, but supplies are minimal. They need food, water, clothing, and medical supplies to help those who are injured. To keep up with their situation, you can join the Facebook group called "Christianville Earthquake Updates." You can help them out financially by sending a donation to Haiti Health Ministries, PO Box 175, Girard, KS 66743. Also, here's a link to an interview with their daughter that aired on the news where my parents live. There is great need in Haiti. Continue to pray that people would turn to Jesus Christ in their time of sorrow.

Snow Daze

It's actually above 20* here, so it felt like summer heading outside to play in the snow today. Yesterday, Chris and Kaylee went sledding and dug a tunnel through one of the piles on our circle made by the snow plow. He's the fun one, you know. Today Kaylee played in what she calls "the cozy hole" and Lauryn was content just making "snow hands."

This is the sidewalk between our house and the neighbor's. (There really is concrete under there somewhere.) It's hard to tell, but the snow on either side is up to my knees!

2010 (sounds like a sci-fi movie or something)

Wow. The snow is piling up around here like it's the frozen tundras of Alaska. Good grief. Some of these piles may not be gone before June. We blazed a path on the sidewalk out front last night, and on either side the snow is higher than my knees. Pictures to come.

We had an excellent Christmas in KS and an excellent post-Christmas in IA. It was a fun time with family and friends. The weather was a little treacherous at times, but we made it both places and back without any trouble.

Not much exciting going on around here. I'm trying to get the house organized (somewhat) with all the new Christmas goodies we brought home. They are finally almost all put away! And we're trying to get back into a sense of normalcy after being gone most of the last week and a half. The cold weather has definitely made it difficult for Chris to work. I think the wind chill today is -20 or -30. Tomorrow's not going to be much better. Thankfully they're calling for better weather next week, so maybe these kids can get outdoors finally. Cabin fever is setting in.

Well, here's to 2010 - hopefully a great year is ahead of us all! We celebrate New Year's Eve with a group of friends, so here are pictures from this year's and last year's parties. (Thanks to my husband, the only picture I can post from this year is one where I'm not looking at the camera.)