the last three days...

Matt was the godfather (similar to best man, but with multiple financial obligations) at a 3-hour wedding, complete with aisle interpretive dancers, cremas (a Haitian celebratory drink made up of cow milk, alcohol, chocolate powder, and vanilla, made months ago and kept in catsup bottles until the big day), satin gloves (for the men) and a LOT of really close up and very stern faced photography.

Junior led, Civil sang and Bryan preached at the first English chapel of the year on 1 Kings...it was a GREAT service.

We spent the evening with Jeff, OMS Haiti's International Regional Director, and stayed up late talking.

We joined the rest of the OMS Haiti missionaries and Jeff  for brunch Saturday followed by a long, but really good, meeting about field issues and about how we can do things better.  He brought candy bars.  That's always a good thing in a country where you can't buy candy bars.

Lily played with the big bubbles Don left her...and kept asking when Don was going to play bubbles with her again.

I made pretzels for the third time, and they finally taste like real pretzels.

We stayed up late again watching (and for me, crying through) Soul Surfer.  Carrie Underwood, not fantastic.  But the movie? really good.  Unless you're already deathly afraid of sharks.   Dad, you've got to see it.  Lisa, you would never swim again.

I dreamed that I made supper for the Renner family in our crock pot, left it on too long, and when I finally opened it to serve dinner, it had turned just into hot water.  I was mortified.  I wish you guys would come back now.

We went to Piat with 5 of the students for church...which started at 8:30, ended at 11:30, and still ran out of time for a sermon.  It was kid's Sunday, which included lots of competitions, Bible recitation and singing and was figuratively very cool.  Literally, it was a million degrees and a three hour service.  Lily had a good time the last 30 minutes when I finally let her leave the sanctuary.

Bryan and I worked through some issues we've been having with QuickBooks, Matt prepped for classes, Bryan made us killer hamburgers, we did a bunch of laundry now that the sun is out again, the girls both took a nap at the SAME TIME on Sunday, we thought that 25 chickens got stolen, then found out they just got miscommunicated all the way to Cap-Haitian and we each took at least 5 cold showers.

This is going to be a GOOD week...