11 Days before Christmas and I still didn’t have our Christmas cards out. Heck, I didn’t even have a picture for the card. The kids happened to have a music recital to dress up for so I took the opportunity to try to get a picture the perfect picture for our last-minute cards. Of course we...

This is my baby. She is 2. She is the littlest sister. Amelia really, really wants to learn to play the “biolin”. This is Briana, she is the biggest of the sisters. It’s a really, really good time to have a big sister. A big sister who just happens to know how to play the “biolin”. A...

We are finally on a much needed family vacation. We are in the gorgeous Smokey Mountains in Gatlinburg Tennessee. We usually come here every year for the annual lighted Christmas parade that they host. There are a couple of times every year when we want to just quit homeschooling, toss the books out...

This past weekend our friend Tom came down from college to visit us. We met Tom while in Uganda this past summer. His story is amazing. He is now in the states getting an education so that he may go back and help build up and better his home country. We took him for a drive in the countryside and I...

I have been silent. There is so much to think about these days. I am not one of those people who can talk and listen at the same time. So I have just been listening. Africa took a while to process. It was so huge. So overwhelming. I am not eloquent enough to describe it. Words have failed me. So I have...

Yesterday I went to visit a family in a small village called Musima. A friend of McKensey, named Moses lives there with his family. We also knew that there was a woman who lived there that cares for many orphaned children. Some members of our church had given us some money to help them and we were able...

Today we went to visit the church in the village of Wankonge (say: won con gay). I traveled with 8 other missionaries and their 3 children. The village of Wankonge was about a 45 minute car ride from Jinja. The church building is a small brick structure with a concrete floor and a tin metal roof suspended...