Something she would never have thought of

So I bet Nerlande would have never thought that people dressed up like a Pickle.
At the Yard sale she was able to met her first Walking Pickle.

NO no Bunny

So We explained to the kids that the Easter bunny would bring them a Basket in the Morning for Easter. They woke up and looked for their baskets and they loved the movies they got and the bag of Cheetoes. When people asked the kids if the Easter bunny came they said NO no Bunny Mama and Papa, But they still loved the Easter egg hunt's and coloring eggs.

I loved being able to buy their Baskets and loved That we where all Home for Easter.

I truly love the days when  I come into the front room and Nerlande and Yonelson are playing House with the Barbie dolls and when Nerlande loves to fix Yonelson Hair with her Hair clips and Headbands.

Fabrice is loving school and loves to watch Basketball he can not get enough of the March Madness and the Utah jazz.

A Day of Fishing

So I know it is not quite warm weather to go out on a lake to fish,But on Saturday we did.
Fabrice was so excited to see if he could catch a fish.
Yonelson was excited to be on a Boat.
Nerlande was excited for both.
But it was way to cold to catch anything so the kids had to settle for fish from the store but they still ate everybit of the fish even the eyes.
I love to see are older kids helping the little ones learn about everything and to be there for them.

They Day they came home to there forever family

This time last week we where rushing to the Airport to catch the Red eye so we could get to Miaim to Add these two sweeties to our family. Our heart was half filled with joy to see Nerlande and Yonelson but sad because Fabrice had to stay back in Haitit while we tried to figure out where his file was. Nerlande was her little Shy self that also gave Her Papa the blink and a hit. But don't worry they have become friends.
Dave had to go help His house volunteer try to find Yonelson,but dave said it was so neat to walk into each cottage and see all the kids from the O.
They finally found Yonelson and I don't believe he has stopped smiling he is a totally differnt kid then the one in Haiti. It has been a whirl wind week and we can not believe they are Home for good.

Miss you when making a PB&J

Our kids love love love and did I say love Peanut butter...
So any time I am making something with Peanut butter I think how much they would love to try it.
So I can not wait until they can eat some peanut butter cookies or some peanut butter fudge or captain crunch peanut butter cereal and the list goes on and on .....we love you guys and i hope Nerlande is doing better and not so miserable..

If your Whappy and you know it...Happy New year

So we hope everyone had a great New year's Eve and we hope this next year brings Great things for everyone. So if your down and not feeling happy here is a little song by Fabrice and Nerlande. So remember if your Whappy and you know it clap your hands because this year will be a great one!

Not afraid of the water

Nerlande just loves the swimming pool.If we just let her stay in her swimsuit she would. I remember on the first trip she hated the water, but she is defiantly not afraid anymore she will just jump right in with no fear. she loves to swim with anyone that will let her splash them she loves to get people wet, she is such a character.
we can not wait for the big family to meet her and see her in action attitude and all:) We love her so much...

Dinner time in Haiti

This is one of the many dinner times in Haiti,on this particular night Nerlande was not Happy she had spilled something on her shirt and wanted to take it off. Then she wanted nothing to do with anyone.
But then a great friend stepped up and made her little world all right. From then on on this night she would not leave Pete's side. Thanks for stepping up and helping us out Pete it's great having good friends around when you need a little extra help

Plus I would like to Thank Bambi and Her Sister for taking some great Pictures and sharing them with everyone. I love this picture of Nerlande with Pete:)

What do you do with stickers

Sweet Nerlande loved going down to Bambi's Hotel Room to visit her and Vania and Her sister.
One day she came back with stickers and she was so excited then the next thing when I looked over she was putting stickers all over her and her doll.she was having so much fun putting them all over her.
she was covered head to toe
I can not wait to see you again real soon.

Mwen pa p janmsispann renmen ou

I will always love you

So this last weekend was a hard one I was really miss these sweet faces. I think it had to do with Halloween,going to a Baby shower and still trying to get back to norm putting the kids stuff away until our next trip.


but I will never stop loving them and will keep praying and wishing that Haiti can get the process figured out.
I love this picture of Yonelson looking so intently at the street and market outside the Hotel.
you can tell he is really thinking about all of it.
And this picture of Nerlande well she is quite the character and also so sweet.



Then here is our Handsome young man we had so much fun getting to know him. He is so smart and sweet he loved talking on Dave's phone to all of Dave's family at home. he would just call them even when we didn't know but Dave's family loved hearing this little voice saying "Hello this is Fabrice,How are you? I am fine."

so we love you guys and we will see you in just a few months!

sweet Nerlande learning about rocking

We where outside the Hallway watching the boys swim when Nerlande went over to check out the rocking chair. she sat down and then got really scared when it started to move so I sat down to show her that it was OK and fun to rock back and forth I can not wait to show her more things when we get here home.

What cute kids to see in the Email

We recieved these in our email this morning what a great thing to see! They all look Healthy and not to skinny. It's so fun to see there little things you have learned about them just from the few trips. Yonelson all ways wants his shirt nicely buttoned up, and sweet but mischief Nerlande with her Smiles but yet you can tell she will be a handful (we will love it) and Fabrice he all ways looks very Handsome We can not wait to get to know him better on this upcoming trip.

We have been very busy this last few weeks 2 weeks ago Dave and his little brother where asked to speak at a fireside in Provo. It was a very nice Evening to hear them speak about how trials turn into blessings and what effect Home teaching can have on a family. Then on last Tuesday we where at the Ride BMX Nora cup Award at the House of Blues in Las vegas. (wow life is strange some time) Now we are home getting ready to travel to Haiti to see our sweet kids in just 3 weeks. We are busy making sure we have all the goodies the kids need and Donations for the O.

We love you guys and can not wait to see you guys in a few weeks.....

Such a Great laugh!!

Nerlande has such a laugh!! I am so glad that she is able to laugh even with her spot in life right now, she knows how to laugh. It taught me something no matter what you are dealt with in life look past it and enjoy life. I can not wait to spend some time with her laughing and enjoying the few days we get with them. We love you Nerlande

Happy Birthday Nerlande!!

Today Nerlande turns 5, my wish is that somehow stuff will speed up or get fixed with Adoption's in Haiti and she will be home for her 6th Birthday. Happy Birthday Nerlande and we will Bring you a Present when we see you in October!! we love you Mom&Dad And your Brother's and Sister

August up-dates

Nerlande is doing well and seems healthy,they say she plays with Yonelson.
she looks cute as ever we love the up-dates but they also make you sad because they all ways look a little bit older.
Yonelson is doing great,. His emotional state seems to be improving since January 2009. Yonelson seems to interact with other children at orphanage and at times can be observed smiling.
we can almost see a smile in this picture. We are glad that the up-date picture of the kids we have read about so far are looking very healthy looks like the donations we are taking down seems to be helping .Thank you to all that have donated and help the O!!
I can not wait to go back in October,they say the teacher has been coming every week in July and some of the kids are saying stuff in English.
we miss you guys !! love you so much Mom&Dad

Just missing you guys

I love these pictures of Dave and the kids (see Honey Nerlande does love you) If you guys have talked to Dave They have a love and Hate relationship,but always when its time to leave Haiti she is warming up to Dave maybe this time when we go it will be better for them sooner:)

How fast they learn

Wow It's amazing how the kids would watch or we would show them once and they picked up using the computer to look at pictures or we had them talk to our kids at home and they wanted to call them again. Yonelson loved carrying Dave's phone around and Nerlande wanted to look at the pictures on the Laptop. They are so quick at learning stuff. we hope all the kids are doing well at the O and we keep all of them in our prayers during these hot months. we love you Nerlande and Yonelson.

Can not wait until

I can not wait until Nerlande,and Yonelson come home so we can take them up to our beautiful Mountains and roast some Hot dogs and toast marshmallows and make some smore's. I know they will love the hot dogs because when we are in Haiti having Haitian spaghetti they love to pick out the hot dog pieces and eat them. when we do family things like this I really miss them but then I think how exciting it will be to show them all this stuff when we get them home.

Great little buddies

I was all ways worried what if Nerlande and Yonelson did not get along.On the trip in January it was hard to tell since Yonelson was sick. Well they got along great they where all ways sharing stuff like Imodium you know that is a sharable thing(lOl), they loved to play cars and yes Yonelson played dolls with Nerlande even though he taught her to throw the doll down like a little boy would. but the best thing was when they would sing together. so now I don't worry I think they will be great Brother and Sister plus great friends.

What a doll and full of life

Sweet Nerlande, she is so sweet but also very full of spirit. she was alot more comfortable around us and her personality came out she loved playing dolls and she could not wait to go get in the swimming pool everyday.she really loved jumping in, on our last trip she wanted nothing to do with the pool.On our last night we where getting ready for bed and she was so funny she kept pulling up her pajama bottoms as high as they could go and just laugh and laugh then she wanted me to take her picture and show her then she really laughed. she is so funny and sweet.  We love you Nerlande!! Love Mom&Dad&Family