Another summer highlight...

Another highlight from this summer was seeing another one of my girls from GTH get baptized.  Adriana was my girl at Peris and continues to be my girl today.  I'm so glad she has chosen to follow the ONE who gives us new life!  I was so honored to be at her baptism!

Summer Highlights...

TEN camps, 36 days, about 140 kids...and it is finished!  August 6th was AWWWWWW day!!

Everyone knows I love PINK!!  So, when I started planning the princess scavenger hunt, I just knew that somehow a pink princess would need to be involved and that I would be the pink princess...

The summer started with two "Girly" camps.  The staff and I handpicked 12 girls for each camp and I had a team of ladies that had all been to Romania and served with H2H in the past....except for our beloved crazy Cyndee and she just fit right in!  It was a great 8 days of camp.  The girls had one on one attention, enjoyed a swim party and of course the princess scavenger hunt, an excursion to the mountains, and a spa day complete with a tea party in the backyard.  I loved hanging out and spending time with all these girls!

I am the pink princess!!

Our team with the girls after the spa day...they are all dolled up!!

Our wonderful, marvelous, fabulous girly camp team!!!

I won't lie, I won't try to sugar coat things.....the kid's camps were a bit difficult for me.  I did however enjoy getting to know some kids and renewing friendships with others.

This is Luci...who I so lovingly called Lucica Dulcica (which means sweet Luci).  She had this high pitched scream everytime she got excited about something...it was cute!  Everyone kept saying she could be my daughter...I don't think I have that scream....

Lucica Dulcica and I in the pool!  By the end of this day, I would swim across the pool with her on my back...she loved it!

And then there was Georgiana.  She as in the group with the littlest kids.  One of the evening we were sitting around on the front porch.  She came up to me and said she wanted pony tails all over her head.  Her hair was pretty short, but I put 6 pony tails in anyways.  She was so cute....

After Georgiana's pigtails, the hair salon opened and all the girls had to have them...We had 6 little girls running around with pigtails going every which direction!

And then it was my turn....the things we do for these kids...

The kids were encouraged to stay in their tents until 8 am....with the little kids, this was pretty much a lost cause.  I went downstairs about 7:30am and was starting to hear rumblings in the tents.  I must of said something and pretty soon I hear coming from Georgiana's tent, "Jenny, will you do my hair for me again today?"  I smiled and told her yes of course.  The sunglasses were a big hit with this group too.  They got them from the pinata and they wore them everywhere!  They were so cute!

The last picture of the summer....a little comic relief!!  Krista and I with our new hats!

Delinquency!

For the past few months I've been delinquent in my blogging....so today I did a catch up day!  You can read all about what I've been up to in Romania on this blog:  www.jennyjoinromania.blogspot.com or my H2H blog: http://www.h2hint.org/index.php/h2h/staff_bio/index.php?username=jenny

Enjoy!!

A New Hobby!

With all the weddings, babies, birthdays and such I have taken up a new hobby....cake making and decorating!  Here are some of my attempts, although, I think I need some classes!

Wedding Cake for Robi and Alina's Wedding

Baby Rebeca's 1st Birthday Cake

Robi and Alina's Civil Ceremony Cake

Costel's Birthday Cake

Andreea's Birthday Cake

Extra Cake for Robi and Alina's wedding

Wedding of the Century

On May 8th, H2H hosted its first Christian wedding ceremony at the team house.  Robi and Alina commited their lives to each other for better or worse, through sickness and health, in richer and poorer, till death do they part.  It was fun to be apart of all the preparations and program.  Pictures are worth a thousand words so here is the day from all the pictures taken on this day...

Jim walked her down the aisle

With this ring, I thee wed

Lovely flute music

Mr and Mrs. Robert Vaduva

H2H staff with the bride and groom

This is the cake I made for the big day.  It was three tiers and I hear it was really good.  It was gone by the time I served it all...

No wedding is complete without games!  Games?  Yes, as is typical Romanian fashion we had games.  Since Robi and Alina will be becoming parents in October or November we wanted to see who would be dressing the baby.  I think Alina will be doing the task!

Don't jump!!  Really it was a joke!

May the Lord bless this new family!

A Wee Little Trip to Scotland

To celebrate Kirsteen's birthday and to prepare ourselves for the upcoming spring and summer, the American and Scottish staff and I decided to take a wee little trip to Scotland...home of Kirsteen...our wee little staffer.  Kirsteen wanted to show us a little bit of her world and it was fun to meet up with some of our friends that had visited us in Romania on tenderfoot trips.  We were all split up amongst these friends and they showed us such wonderful hospitality.  So here is what we did:

Day 1:  We took a day trip to Edinbourgh where we met up with Leslie Cameron (who has been over to Romania numerous times).  We had lunch with Leslie and then went to visit the Edinbourgh castle.  And of course we shopped the Royal Mile.  I even found a wee little kilt for my nephew.  We found this piper and paid one pound to take a picture with him.  After arrving back in Glasgow, we were all invited to Wanda and Brian's (where Krista and I stayed) for a wonderful dinner.  They told us about halfway through the meal that we were eating Hagis!

Krista and I at Edinbourgh Castle

Day 2:  We took a bus tour of Glasgow.  Unfortunately, it was raining that day and so we were forced to sit inside.  However, Mark took one for the team and sat outside in the rain and took pictures.  Our wonderful friends in Scotland hosted us at the church flat for a yummy dinner, birthday cake for Kirsteen and fun games led by Maggie (who has also been on numerous trips to Romania and has promised me a picture for my wall in my apartment).  

Here we are shopping in Glasgow.  We were trying on all of these hats and this lady just came up put one on and we all snapped a photo!

Day 3: Our hosts took us for a day trip to see some beautiful lochs, the coastline of Scotland, and Inverary Castle.  When we arrived home we went to Wilma and David's home and ordered in fish and chips.

At the coast in Scotland...it was a wee bit cold!

Here we are all at Inverary Castle

Day 4:  Departure Day.  We attended the service at Kirsteen's church and then left immediately for the airport.  Much thanks to all of my Scottish friends for hosting me and making me feel welcome...especially Wanda and Brian for the home stay!  It was wonderful!

Rebeca's 1st Birthday Party

A month ago, Rebeca (H2H's first baby and my first "grand-daughter") turned one year old!  We invited her over to Pipera to have a birthday party, cake and presents!  She was so cute in her birthday dress and I gave her little silver shoes to go with it!  Cake was everywhere, but she didn't care...it tasted good!!  Here is our sweet little Rebeca on her day!

She did not like that head band at all, but alas, we got a good picture!  

With the birthday girl!

That candle just wouldn't stay on straight!

Yummy, Yummy!!  She had cake everywhere!!