We're home!  Thank you so much for investing your time by checking in and praying for us! It was such a blessing to come on and see how many people were looking at our site each day.   Thank you for the texts, calls, emails etc.  Your prayers were felt. It's bittersweet being home.  Lots of processing. I'll post more later on the last few days of our trip! They were the best! xo!

Quick praise and prayer update: I had a spiritual attack this morning and this afternoon got a migraine. I text some of my friends to pray and the Lord was gracious to me. Usually during migraines I can't open my eyes much because light hurts too bad. This happened some but I eventually was able to and got some amazing time in the word. The Lord heard my cry and was victorious. I took my migraine meds and they were barely touching the pain earlier but now it's just an annoyance more than anything. Thank you Jesus! Another praise: I had been hoping and praying for the opportunity to check out and connect with other ministries here and see what else the Lord was doing in Haiti. That was kinda my hope for the last week here by myself but I gave up the thought when I knew I was going home early. Tonight I told Josie I'd like to take her and John to lunch or dinner before we leave Wednesday and she said that would be great because she was wanting to take me to show me a ministry called Heartline. I know it's a pregnancy center but I think they also have classes on mothering for moms or maybe it's just for single moms? I'm not sure but we'll see! Either way it sounds like something that's right up my ally! The Lord is just so kind to answer that specific prayer!
Please pray for Micah. I think he has an ear infection and is in pain. I've started him on some antibiotics I brought. He got bitten up bad again last night (he even got 5 bug bites on his little face last night) and the itching is really driving him nuts. He said he was freezing tonight so I'm guessing he has a fever considering its 90 degrees and SO humid! I think this is the hottest night we've had. Anyway if you could be praying for him. And also just that I would stay on top of my headache with the medicine. Evan is doing great besides a little itching here and there. Thank you!!

Thursday morning we had bible study at our house again.  We are going through the book Bait of Satan and it is so good!  Every Christian should read it! Evan helped Rod with some plumbing stuff on the roof.  Susette brought over Kenny and Micah played with him.  Bible study went until about 1 and then we headed over the boys home for the afternoon.  Thursday nights Rod and Brittany have prayer and worship here and we were excited for that.  Except that when we got home Micah had a complete meltdown and really needed me.  The Lord keeps reminding me I am a mom first before anything else here and that I need to be continually dying to myself which is hard because there is so much I want to do here.  On that note, I changed my flight to come home Wednesday with the boys instead of the following Wednesday.  So I wont be staying the last week by myself.  I am bummed but have total peace in it.  I didn't anticipate how hard it would be for Micah and then for him to adjust to being back and staying at Evans all week just didn't seem right.
Friday we walked around the outside of the tent city and tried to talk with people. I wish I knew more creol. I was able to communicate some with people. They are do drawn to Micah's hair! Then I packed a snack for us and we went up on the guesthouse roof to look out over the city and eat. While we were at the guest house I met these 2 guys from San Diego who are also here visiting a friend. They said they were going to head into a local tent city to pray for people later that day so I made plans to meet up with them but our translator fell through. So, hopefully we'll get to do that before we go. It's kinda sketchy in there so we have to make sure we at least have a Haitian with us. I showed Evan the transition house yesterday. Some of the kids after graduating out of the orphanage work at the transition house. They learn skills like carpentry, t-shirt making, sewing, baking. It's pretty cool. We then headed over to the feeding program. After that we decided to make it an early night and headed back home. Some awesome local ladies had been at our house all day cooking to make us an authentic Haitian meal. I accidently ate a huge habanero pepper that was just in the sauce to give it some spice. I was dying!!
I've been doing a lot of haircuts which is fun! Brittany said I could move here and easily have a business of just cutting missionaries hair....tempting! :)
The little girls from the orphanage came over to play this morning and now some of the younger boys are here recording some music stuff with Evan. Tonight I asked Rod and Britt if we could take them out to dinner somewhere so I think we're going to do that.
Today Brittany said we are the best house guests ever. It was such a Complete blessing to hear those words. My hope was to come and just serve her and the ministry and support what God is doing thrPugh them. So to see and hear some fruit is always such a blessing.
Please just continue to pray that the Lord would give me insight and that I would completely abide in him these last 4 days. I don't want to miss anything He has for me here. Also, pray the Lord brings Micah JOY and peace. He just is a little teary and agitated. I think he's ready to be home but still loving it so much that he doesn't want to take time to sleep :)&

Monday morning we all woke up really early to go hike.  There were about 30 of us hiking straight up this mountain and it look us about 3 hours.  It was hard but so amazing once we got to the top.  The weather has been about 90 and super humid but once we got to the top I would say it was in the 60's and a little foggy! It was nice to have a break from the heat and humidity.  Micah rode in the car up the back side of the mountain with John and Josie and Brittany's kids.  It was all 4-wheel drive up the mountain and I guess they had to stop once cause Micah thought he was going to throw up.  We all had lunch and hung out at the top for about an hour before heading down.  It took about an hour to get down the mountain and about 5 minutes from the bottom Micah started throwing up all in the car.  Luckily I had a bag handy and he gave us good warning!  We laid low the rest of the day cause I wasn't sure if he was just car sick or had a bug.
That afternoon I got a text from Evan that his flight was leaving that night...not Wednesday like we thought.  So, Tuesday morning Micah went with Rod to get Evan from the airport.  We were excited for him to come and show him one of our favorite places on earth and a place that is so close to our hearts! He showed up around 10 but without his bags!  Apparently they were on the next flight so they headed back an hour later to get them.  Thank goodness it was there because it had expensive recording equipment (so he could play around with the older boys, they have rap group), more scooters for the girls and boys home, a new dress for the little girl with the urine soaked dress at the feeding program and all his clothes! Once he got settled in we took him on a little tour of the neighborhood.  We walked by a tent city, the guest house where we went up on the roof to get a view of the city and even saw the ocean, we went by Bill and Susettes, the girls home and finally the boys home.  We stayed and hung out with the boys most of the afternoon.  Brittany invited the little girls over to our house to make popcorn and watch a movie.  So I left the boys at the boys house and came home to hang out with them.  It was fun! 
John and Josie invited us over to dinner.  I just adore that couple and it was so great to get to spend time with them.  I had to rush out with Brooke and Ashley (they work here) because we were going to the older girls bible study that night at Suzettes. Pray that the girls get a steady older mentor and house mom. They really need a full time person like the boys have with Cindy.  A married couple would be perfect so they could have a good male/father figure in the house too. 
This morning I went with Brittany to the market.  It's very similar to the markets we have but we got our eggs and produce from a stand on the side of the road.  Rod, Asher, Evan and Micah went to the hardware store...they got chicken and rice from someone cooking off the side of the road and spent some of the afternoon working on the roof here.  We then went to the feeding program. I love getting to love on those kids. How crazy to be the poorest kids in the poorest country in the western hemisphere!  It's heartbreaking.  Tonight we made pizza for dinner and got to watch Asher and Isaiah while Brittany and Rod went out on a date. 
I've made friends with some of the street kids around here. One in particular, his name is Jeff. He is the sweetest most genuine boy but has absolutely no boundaries. Josie, who lives next door, has Jeff and his two friends over every tuesday and Thursday to have a meal with them and  let them bathe. Well tonight there was a knock at the gate. I asked Evan to ask who it was and if they didn't speak English to not let them in. He came back and said it was Jeff asking for me. He told me he was really hungry tonight. Normally if you lived here you'd have to have some good boundaries set up or you would get hounded all the time for things. It's overwhelming. Like josie. She has it set up twice a week they get a meal and shower (the other days they eat at the feeding program) and tells the boys to wait outside her gate abd not to knock and she'll come out and get them. But we don't live here so I figured what the heck?! I don't need to set up boundaries for the short time we are here, and I can give so I will.  So I ran inside and made Jeff and his friend a sandwich , gave them a banana and a sucker. That was a big highlight of my day. I want to be out there, in the streets, roaming the tent city praying and giving to the poorest of the poor. But recently there have been a lot of kidnappings here so best to play it safe and follow the rules....for now :) there is something just so amazing when God brings the wealthy and the poor together....the ones who know Christ inspire me. They are so rich in faith.
I am being eaten alive!!! I lost count of my bites but they are driving me absolutely nuts! I have bad reactions to bug bites and they swell up like crazy. I've been a little out of it on Benadryl the last day or two. Micah's legs are pretty much healed but he too is still being eaten alive, but that sweet boy barely complains. Thank you all for praying! It's been a great trip so far. I have a few fun things planned to do with the kids the next few days. Life in Haiti is so up in the air we'll see if we get to do them :) but I've come to realize I work really well on Haitain time....or it just encourages my laziness :) But it's my kind of living for sure! 

The Lord answered a hope and prayer of mine with a slight break through with the girls on Saturday. The older girls at the orphanage were stand off-ish and closed off last time I was here and I was wanting to get to know them more but it is hard. But Saturdayh morning while walking to the boys home I decided to just stop by and say hi. EVERYONE here remembers Micah and they call him "America"...not sure why but he answers to it now. So the girls were excited to see Micah and that was my in! We sat around and chatted a little. Saturday is hair washing day so I helped take out a few of the little girls braids before bath time. One of the boys from the boys home Evnell was there visiting his younger sister. I would guess he is about 9 or 10. This boy has the sweetest heart! If I could bring him home I would!! Susette told me his prayer for past year has been that his little sister Estaline would know him. So every Saturday he goes over to spend time with her. If he does well in school or gets a reward for something else he always asks if he can walk over and give it to his sister. The other day when he was leaving his sister started crying for him and he got so excited :)
After the girls house we walked up to the boys house. I was going to bring the scooters over in the afternoon so I got some sidewalk chalk and asked Immanuel to help me draw some tracks for the boys to ride on and race. Immanuel is SO rascally and disobedient and is always getting in trouble. I wanted to ask him to help me so I could spend a little time with him. I told him how I used to be rebellious and rascally too and how the Lord totally changed me. Well not totally changed me, I'm still pretty rascally :) anyway since he helped me he got to use the scooter first. He often gets privileges taken away so it was fun to give him one. While I was hanging with Immanuel, Micah and the other boys made guns from paper...they were pretending they were water guns and were squirting each other to cool each other off.
We went back later that afternoon to bring the scooters and it was crazy! I should've know! I set a timer and they had to trade every 5 minutes but man, I've never felt so popular! The boys were swarming me asking if they could be next, how much time was left, etc.
I played volleyball for a while and I had no idea I could suck so much at a sport! Haha but I'm getting better, we played again yesterday.
That night the boys hosted worship with the community. It was all in creole with a few English songs. It was beautiful. A little girl named Daphne crawled up in my lap halfway through and quickly fell asleep. There's not much better than getting to rock an absolutely beautiful Haitian girl to sleep.
Sunday Micah and I rode to church with Josie and Brooke. During church a local boy from our neighborhood who Josie takes care of, was at church and got sick and was throwing up. While he was in the bathroom his bike got stolen. But one of his friends saw who took it and knows where he lives. So after church we loaded up the car with the poor sick boy who's bike was stolen, the boy who knows who took it and a big Haitian dude. The boy gave us directions to the house where the bike was. The boys dad put up a little fight but we eventually got the bike back! It was such a fun adventure and Micah loved being a crime fighter!! :)
Micah and I then headed to the Manessero's for lunch. Micah and their son Kenson (who they adopted from Haiti) had fun shooting BB guns off the balcony. We went and hung out with the boys and came back to watch a movie at the Meadths.
Micah threw up this afternoon, I'm hoping he was just car sick. But he was also complaining about his head. He's getting a lot of rest and seems to be feeling better but just pray it isn't a bug! Micah is still winning the competition but I'm catching up!!! He hasnt had any new bites but I have. M:81 K:22

Dad dont read this: It's 1:30 Sunday afternoon and we've already tracked down a stolen bike and went and got it back, rode in the trunk of an SUV all over town and Micah shot guns (bb) with his buddy Kenson. This is Haiti! :)

The internet is SLOW so I'll try to post pictures when I can :)