Friday, May 31, 2013

It's been an amazing day!  And it was so busy!  Our day consisted of the following:  feeding the children breakfast, lunch and dinner, playing with the children, sanitizing toys in the baby house, taking part in a dance class with the toddlers, creating and putting on a music class with the toddlers, swimming in the morning with the babies and the afternoon with 6 fearless girls, walking around the compound and looking at the beautiful plants and the amazing view and cuddling and snuggling before bed as well as tucking the children in for the night.  
We praise God for bringing together our amazing team to come and serve here.  We work so well together and it's such a blessing that no one has complained about doing anything asked of them and we compliment each other so well!
It rained again last night and the children didn't get outside time because it was so muddy, and with it being so humid and the clouds staying around we haven't got any great pictures of the mountains yet. 
Tomorrow we head into Cotacachi (Leather Town) for shopping and Otavalo for more shopping.  We will get to eat out while in Otavalo and return to the guest house for Dinner. 
Join us in praying for the children, for their health and forever homes, for the amazing Tias who care for the children, for those who travel to help care for the children, for more sponsors for the children and for us to have a safe trip tomorrow.  Thank you and God Bless!
 
 Kay cleaning toys.  And yes, we did clean all the balls in the ball pit.
 Kay
 Ella & Jessica stenciling a Bible verse on a wall in the toddler room.
 Ashley, say cheese!
Karen led a music class with the children and Shawna helped out. 
 Music class
 Siesta!
Slightly frightening trash cans. 
Some of the beautiful plants here. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Looking to the west of For His Children Orphanage.
 The Vaughn's amazing vision has served over 800 children.
 Eggs, they sit on the shelf unrefrigerated in the store.
 Play time.
 
 Kilah and a beautiful baby girl.  4 months old.
Dr. Mark from the states.  His passion is to serve children.  All the children were healthy. 
Preparing the babies to go to the pool. 
 Ruth & a beautiful baby.
 The pool house.
 Kilah and Shawna swimming.
 Ruth and Shauna swimming
 Vern and a wagon full of babies.
 All tired out after swimming.
 
 
 Dance class.
 Ella getting a hair style.
Jessica getting her hair styled.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Day 2

A group of us started the morning off by going to the baby house to help with breakfast. We came back to pancakes for our breakfast. After breakfast a group of us went to the toddler house to paint a few walls while the other group went swimming with the babies. An FHC came and had lunch with us and talked about the process of how the orphanages work. After lunch a group of us went and played outside with the toddlers while others took a siesta. We had chicken tacos for dinner. After dinner we attempted to go to the dump to feed the workers. It seemed like a creepy place because of fog! We were unable to feed the workers tonight due to a death of one of the workers so therefore we will return to do it another night. We came back for a fun relaxing evening and we are thankful God placed us here to do his work.
 Tia feeding a sleeping baby
Ashley's hour long feeding  
 Lunch time
 Outside fun
Painting crew  
Jen 
 Ashley reunited with an old friend
Ella being tackled by 4 girls  
Fixing the playhouse door 
 
 
 
 Cheese
 
 
 
Sleeping toddler  
 
 Maria Elana the llama
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hanging out  
 In the fog at the dump