Wednesday, February 23, 2011

It's All About The Children

We do not have a workteam at the mission at the moment, but the Texas team will arrive next week. We are looking forward to having David, Shane and Nolan back, along with others who are arriving March 3rd. Also looking forward to the arrival of Seth and Jessie Huber who will be travelling with the team. Seth and Jessie will be helping out here at HATS for a year.

Work onsite is continuing but it is slowing down. This week there are only four men working preparing to put up the wire fence so the children's homes will be in their own yard. The fence will run parallel to the driveway which will mean protection for the little children who like to run and play on the driveway. We will be putting a swing set in the yard for the children and a place to play basketball. The excitement of the children about the girls moving into the new home and the coming playground is running high.

This blog is going to be mostly photos of my children. Some may be similar to ones you've seen recently, and some may have been taken a year or two ago. I do enjoy looking at photos of the children taken awhile ago. I appreciated the comments and e-mails letting me know you enjoy photos of my children and would like to see more. Here they are.

The children are all well and growing up quickly. They are becoming closer as a family every day. I so look forward to the day, with the help of Seth and Jessie, that I can have a lot more time with them. That will be a win/win situation - good for the children and for me. They all have very different personalities and are all at different stages in their growth and development, but all are extremely precious.

For me it always has been and always will be "ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN".

Dieunel when age 3

Judel when age 2

Karena and Jofky

Karena helping out

Leica, not too long after joining us

Mirlande age 8

Moise (Moses) when age 7

 My seven gorgeous girls

Josie when serious at age 3

Ti Luckner Huxter before he could walk

 My Ti Fi after learning to stand and walk

Vladimy, when 14, with Judel

Beautiful Josie

Gorgeous Dieunel with mischief in his eyes

Gorgeous Karma

Ismyis acting shy

Judel enjoying being a big brother now

Moise growing up

My big boy JJ

My happy smiling Leica

My precious family

8 comments:

Irene Steer said...

Great pics and Praise the Lord it is all about the Children. God Bless them one and all. Good to hear that the couple will be arriving soon and you will have the much needed help on a continual basis for a year. Take care. Miss you.
Love Irene

Shondi said...

Thanks for sharing all those wonderful photos. Such a lift to see all those beautiful and smiling faces!

Ken & Cheryl Huxter said...

Be still my freaking heart!!! It's all about being wet behing the eye balls. The emotions of love are running high here. Jan. next year seems like a light year away. Don't know if our hearts can stand any more. Our hearts are happy.

Love, Ken & Cheryl

Dickie MacDonald said...

Nice Blog. Lots of good memories of HATS.

Sandra said...

How precious! Each one of those children are sooooooo precious! Oh, it makes me homesick and long to be back there.

karenj said...

Lovely pictures, Karen. Thank you.
Please say "Hi" to David, Shane and Nolan from me. Wish I could be there. Soooo glad you are getting some help. God bless you all.
Karen

Beate said...

Thank you Karen...what a beautiful family you are :)
miss you tons...please say hello to all for me.
Beate xoxoxo

Unknown said...

Karen,
will be praying for you! Tell Seth I said hi.
In Jesus,
Gerry Major