Parker is Here!

I know a lot of people in Scott's family wanted to see a picture of Parker Robertson - our newest nephew. He finally came home on Dec. 24 and I get to see him on Dec. 29! (thanks, mom, for the airline ticket!) He's adorable - looks so much like Peyton did when he was born - I can't wait to see him!

Scott and I are having a special date to the Melting Pot tomorrow night and REALLY looking forward to it. For Christmas, Connie and Clark got me a cook book filled with Melting Pot recipes and I've been browsing it for the past 2 days - it's definitely gotten by taste buds going for our big night tomorrow. We have our last service on Sunday morning and head to Costa Rica next Saturday (8 days from today) - it's been a good, long 3 months. We are ready to go "home" and set up our new home. :) I hope to post some pictures of our new place in Costa Rica within a week of being there. We'll have internet in our house, so I'll be able to keep up much easier!

Hello from Missouri

We've been on home assignment for 2 months and 1 day officially. It's been crazy, but a good time as well. We have a huge praise - we found a daycare that the kids can go to during the days in December. It is one of Candy's neighbors and she takes care of 7 children ages 2-5. We took Sydney and Elijah over there this morning and they were THRILLED to be with other kids and new toys. It will help Scott and I a ton to have some time to ourselves and get some of our work done during the day.

We found out that our house in Guatemala was packed up last week - we are praying that all the stuff made it into a box! :) We thought that we would have our stuff when we got to Costa Rica on Jan. 3, but found out that because of the holidays, they aren't shipping the stuff until the first week of January. So, now we are praying that it get there before the kids start school in February. Just kidding (hopefully) - they say it should only take 5-7 days once it leaves Guatemala. We'll see if that is the case.

We have a service tonight in Drexel, MO and one on Friday night in Bonner Springs and 2 on Sunday (in Lawrence and Gardner). We are definitely finding ways to keep ourselves busy - today we went to the Seminary and spoke with a missiology class. I'm healing up well from the hernia surgery that I had last Monday - not taking any more pain medicine and sleeping much better now. Still can't lay on my stomach, but hopefully that changes by next week.

I don't have lots of recent pictures of the kids, but here are a few from October.
Oh - the kids have noticed a lot of cemeteries as we've been traveling, and we've explained that that is were dead people are buried. Now, they always point out to us when we go past a cemetery with lots of head stones. Last week, we went to a Christmas tree farm to pick out a Christmas tree with Candy. Sydney looked at me and said "There's a lot of dead people here, mommy" - it cracked me up. She thought that the lines of Christmas trees were like headstones. Oh the thoughts of 3 year olds...

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