Late Spring/Early Summer

Just a few other random things I did this spring and early summer...

Playing with the kids....

Taking a field trip to the symphony hall with Peris kids....

Ruthie's end of school year program.....

End of the School Year festivities with Peris and Voluntari kids....

Hanging out with these two little cuties.....

Running around Mogosoaia Palace with some Rosiori kids....

Experiencing God's promise of a rainbow....

Easter 2015

I love Easter time!  It is a time of new growth, new life and spring.  It also means that the annual H2H Easter Egg Hunt is upon on and we have to find a hiding spot for the coveted "Golden" egg.  For a few weeks, Jen and I had been talking about where we were going to hide it and had decided that it needed to be a really good spot!  And for the second year in a row, we found a really good spot!  So good, that it was almost not found....two years in a row!

The Romanian Orthodox Church always holds a midnight candle lighting service on the Eve of Easter.  I had never been, so we walked up to the church that is close to our house and participated in first little bit of this service.  It was really cool to see the lighting of the candles as the flame passed from candle to candle.  They say that the flame comes all the way on the airplane from Jerusalem.

Painting My Room

Last year, I had the idea that I wanted to paint a chevron wall in my room!  One of my friends, Sarah, who comes to Romania almost every year had done something similar in her house and so I told her the next time she came to Romania we would have to do my Chevron wall.  So, I gathered up the supplies, did a little research on Pinterest and now have a beautiful new bedroom!

There you have it....the finished product!  Thanks, Sarah, for coming all this way to help me paint my wall!  You're the best!

Now, this project is still not finished...

I have one more dresser to paint and curtains to make and hang....the dresser is going to be painted soon and curtains in December when I'm in the US!

Spring Teams

H2H always kicks off spring with a great team from Mission Possible out of Michigan.  This year was no exception!  The kids had lots of fun making Martisor flowers with Cindi and singing worship songs and playing with Adam (actually, he was a human jungle gym)!

Our next group came out of Indiana and these four ladies were awesome!  

Katie's Kids International was our next group of 13 and 14 year old African American girls and their sponsors.  They made quite an impression with their hair and their culture with our kids!

Sarah and Hayleigh from Michigan came next and they helped us celebrate Easter (more on that later) and helped me paint my room (more on that later, too)!!

Canada, Eh??  Dan and Luella bring a great team each year!  They missed Easter this year by just a few days, but, they were just in time to help us prepare ALL the food for later on in the summer.  We even had to bring in an extra freezer!  They got to help us celebrate H2H grand baby #8 by throwing a baby shower for Alex and Ioana!

CCC has sent a team to Romania for the last three years!  This is the church that Josh and Missy are from!  We had fun with them, especially the day we went to visit the kids at Tancabesti!  This group also got to participate in a special field trip to Starbuck's with some of the Peris kids.  One of our transition kids works at the Starbuck's in the center of Bucharest and invited 15ish kids to come learn how to get a job and hold a job.  Ruthie was also very, very excited to see Josh again!

Our spring teams ended with a fantastic group from Biola University!  They had a lot of fun working in Rosiori and up here in Bucharest!  They come every two years and typically are here for Children's Day on June 1st.  What do you do on Children's Day?  Throw a carnival, of course!

And, just like that, spring was over and summer was upon us with lots more fun to come!!