Beto's Residency

We're in Tegucigalpa! It's always good to get away, even though we've only been back in Honduras for two weeks. We are beginning to process of getting Beto his US residency so we had to come for the week to prepare and present all the paperwork, etc. at the embassy. We are staying with my old roomate Amber in her new house, well, that she's renting. It's really nice and we don't have to feel guilty about her giving us her room and bed! It has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms!

This morning we got up at 6 and were running errands until almost 3. But now that that's done we can relax. On Friday and Saturday I am going with Amber and her intern Courtney to a missionary women's retreat and Beto's going to watch Santi. I'm really excited. I was supposed to go to one in October with Amber but didn't have time and Amber raaaaaved about it!!! So I can't wait! last night we finally went for the first time (beto's second) with Amber downtown to see her ministry building and her Breaking Chains homeless ministry in action. it is amazing! I totally admire Amber and all that she does here in the capitol of Honduras.

We have to go back to the EMbassy on monday morning to present all our paperwork. Please pray that all will go smoothly and we will have all the paperwork we need and that it will be correct, exactly as the embassy wants it. they can be very picky and sometimes the info on their website isn't helpful enough. If all goes as planned he could have his residency within two months.

last Saturday we were home all day. Beto had gone out early in the morning and came back midmorning and left the car parked out front instead of inside the gate since we were planning on going out again. At some point, we don't know who slashed our tires about 5 times with a knife or machete. We think it was just a prank by some of our neighbor kids but we really didn't see anything. Please pray for us to have wisdom and for our safety, and that we will be careful but not fearful. thanks so much~!

January 2011

Here we are with öur¨kids at the local fast food place. we took them after church last sunday and they got to play on the play equipment. we have had a very busy two weeks back here in honduras. We´re back in the regular routine of Beto working at the alcohol rehab center and the church gardens and me tutoring in the afternoons. We´ve enjoyed seeing all our friends here.
Last Saturday while we were home someone slashed on of our car tires while it was parked out front. We are not moving houses yet, especially since we´ll be going to the capitol for the week to work on some business stuff. I am very excited to get to go to a missionary women´s retreat there this weekend with my dear old friend Amber. This past weekend we went swimming at some mineral springs about an hour or two out of town. It was a lot of fun but it took me three days to recoup from having been in the sun all day and holding santi in the pool all that time too.

We´re back!

Pastor Aaron and Pastor Raul on either side of two recent graduates of the Alcoholic Rehab center recieving their ¨diplomas¨.
Having a nice Chinese Dinner our first night back with two friends who watched our house, cleaned it, and took care of our chickens and yard while we were gone. They don´t look happy but they are very fun people!

Santi conked out on the hotel bed the night we arrived in Tegucigalpa. We took the red eye and even though he slept the whole trip, thank God, the time change and lack of a bed on the plane made us all tired!

Spent time with some great friends!

We had dinner with our friends the Crons before we left too. We had such a great time catching up with such great friends!

Santi playing with ¨Auntie Rona¨at her house. We had dinner with her and her husband Sherwood also before we left.













Relaxing watching TV before dinner.


















We got to visit Uncle Seth at his work and get some Starbucks goodies. We went with Aunt Laura of course!
Overall we had such a fun, relaxing time in theStates but are glad to be back in Honduras as well. We have enjoyed getting reconnected with our church and old friends.
We just got a new dog given to us but he keeps running away. But since he always returns to his old home Beto knows where to go and brings him back. We´re hoping that this morning will be the last time Beto has to do that. We named him Coal. I have pictures but will have to upload them another day.
Blessings to you all!

Joshua Tree and Palm Springs

For some reason Beto told my mom he'd never been to a desert, so we HAD to take him! Of course, we warned him, it wouldn't look like pictures he'd seen of the Sahara! But beautiful nonetheless. We had a really great time. I loooove the desert sky! It was so cool to be in the desert yet so close to mountains with snow. I guess that's why some pay the big bucks to live in SoCal. These are just a few of the close to 500 pics Beto took. The picture of the palm tree oasis is where the earth split from an earthquake, allowing water to run through it and causing palm trees to grow in the middle of nowhere in the desert! We also got to see my dad's sister, JoAnn, who "winters" in Palm Springs. I'd not seen her since 1985! It was a short dinner but really great to see her! And the very first picture up top is of some very awesome musicians we heard at the street fair that we visited for a couple of hours after dinner. The music was so good Santi stood in that same spot mesmerized for a good ten minutes. There were some interesting people there!

Park and Beach

Last week we played at a park new to us with some friends that know it really well. The slides and play equipment is all covered very creatively in Historicaly Boston replicas. Of course we had to feed the ducks and the boys had to climb stuff. It was really fun!