A fun family day!

The past months have been super busy and crazy for us with getting ready for our trip, Jonathan working tons of hours (He recently got a new job, so his stress level is so much less! Which is awesome!), studying and taking his test, and the next 5-6 weeks are going to be just as busy...so, I talked Jonathan into a no-work, fun family day on Saturday!! It really wasn't too hard to convince him. =)

We decided to take the kids to the zoo in Brownsville and then to eat supper at our favorite little restaurant on South Padre Island. On the way it rained REALLY hard, but I kept praying that God would let the rain stay away til we got done at the zoo...well, it didn't go totally away but we didn't get too wet and God worked it out that when it down poured a lot we were close to a building, and by the time we were done inside looking, it would stop raining. He's so good, huh? The older two kids had a blast! The monkey's rated number 1 to both of them!! Kamryn slept though most of it but her turn will come. =)

He was aw-struck by the monkeys...he kept saying WOW! WOW!

Me petting a baby camel...it was just born in Dec. 08!

Now, this week its back to work, and not much play for a few weeks til we get our special visitors...then just a few days after they leave ~ we leave!! Please keep praying for us...we seriously have a LONG to-do list, but want to keep focused on why we're doing this, instead of all the stuff we need to do! Its such an exciting privilege to serve Jesus in this way and we don't want to forget what its all about!