Couple of cute pix for you non-Facebookers :)

Our first visitors

Our first visitors came over Thanksgiving.  (Mom, I know that you, technically, were our first visitor when you flew down with us when we arrived!)  It was nice to have such familiar faces in our house. Robin Inks (dear friend and former co-worker) brought Hill Country grad Ashlee Mora and two Hillco Seniors, Aimee Mora and Andi Bandow. We went up to Mount Isabel, had some yummy BBQ in Jarabacoa (it was no Rudy's, but what can we do??), they worked at school and the Mak House, they watched the 'Makarios softball team' gets destroyed by a local church (some of those 'Makarianos' I'd never seen in my life!!),  visited the villages of Pancho Mateo and Chichigua and Robin did her best to catch up with dear friends in the short time she was here.  Oh, yeah, and we squeezed a couple trips to the beach.  :)  We are so grateful for their willingness to us in watching our kids so Joe and I could go on a date!  Thank you so much for your generosity in dollars and pesos while here, girls.  We had such a nice time during your visit.  Robin, Andi and Aimee--see you in March!!  :)  SLEEP OVER!

Levi and Sergio

First visitors and a trip to Chichigua

This is Sergio and Levi.  Sergio lives in Chichigua and is in class with Levi.  We went to visit this village when we had our first visitors.  The boys had not been to this village and I wasn't sure how they were going to respond.  They jumped right in with the makeshift toys the kids made--the cut up plastic bottle that is attached to a stick that they run along keeping a bike tire rolling.  It was fun to see Sergio just take Levi's hand and invite him to play. 

I could not be more thankful for the chance we have to live in the Dominican Republic.  I pray that through living here God develops in Sam and Levi both a heart for people.  Right now they just wanna play and that's fine by me!