gettin' ready for the BIG day!

Everything is in quite a flurry in Saccanville today! The last two days have been SO full. There are no stores to buy decorations and no printing presses to order signs, so everything has been done from scratch. The huge metal sign now hanging out front was created from scratch by one of the students who is a welder, and then the design was created, projected, traced and hand-painted (yeah, Lisa and I have spent A LOT of hours in the garage after Lily was in bed), and then welded to the wall using our truck to power the welder.

Lisa took a quick break for her first motorcycle ride....Then finished the sign, cleaned out my cabinets, babysat Lily, packed our suitcases, made lunch...this chick is unbelievable!

I haven't been able to get to the bottom of WHY exactly trees are painted for celebrations in Haiti, except for "It's beautiful!" Works for me! Did I mention that ALL the trees have been painted???

Extra benches have been brought in from the church, ladies from the community will be here soon to hang all the hats and flowers and sparkly "Jesus, I love you" signs. The lawn was cut this morning, and an abundance of bulletin's and song lyrics still need printed and cut...

The cooks have even whipped up a huge meal today for all of the workers, complete with crab.

Tomorrow promises to be a big day!

And this final photo, by request, Matt posed just for you...anything for Martin and Sharon!