Shower

Our friends here in Virginia threw us a surprise baby shower. It was really a huge blessing. Here are some pics.

We're having 2 girls!!!

Back to DC

We went back to DC this past weekend with a couple of friends. It was beautiful weather and we had a good time. The cherry trees were starting to blossom. Kerri did really well walking around six miles(we measured using google). We got to see a couple of sites I've always wanted to see like the Vietnam wall, WWII Memorial, and Arlington Cemetery. We found out today that we have something in the works on our house as well as maybe the spec house. Keep praying. We go Thursday for another ultrasound, hopefully they will get it right this time and we may find out the sexes.

no news

We didn't get to see the sexes yesterday. Sort of a long story, but they scheduled Kerri for the wrong machine. We did get to see two healthy, active, beautiful babies on an old ultrasound machine, though. Hopefully we can tell something in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for your prayers.

DC Trip

We took a trip to DC on Tuesday for several reasons. We went with the group from here and had the assignment of finding areas in the city where people from our people groups might hang out and engage them. We had a great time seeing the sights, (though we really didn't get to see the main ones) and found a latino section of town where we were able to share the gospel with several guys in a park there. As you can tell from the picture, we tried to share with obama, but he wasn't open :-)(yes, that's a carboard cutout). Anyway, we only have about three more weeks here. We go to the dr. tomorrow to have an ultrasound and hopefully can see what we are going to have.

In Training

Hello everyone. Sorry it's been a while since we updated, but we have really not been doing much to report on. We've had a good few weeks, though. We have learned a lot and met some great people. We live in a quad with five other "units", which include two single girls and three couples, one of which have two little girls age 4 and 21 mo. We all share a living room and have our own apartments with a bedroom, bathroom, and kitchenette. Everyone is going to our region, so we are able to spend a lot of time together learning about the latin cultures. One couple is going to the same place as we are, and we all got a chance to eat at a Dominican restaurant in Richmond. That was a great experience, and we got to meet the family that runs it, which are Dominican, also. Kerri is doing good and is 16 weeks along today. Our houses still haven't sold yet, but we're still praying and trusting God with it. I can't wait to see how He's going to answer this prayer. We'll try and update more often from now on.

Change O' Plans

okay. Yes, we have a change of plans. As of thursday(Jan 31), we were told that we would stay in the states until the twins are born. We finished getting everything out of our house and getting it cleaned up late Saturday. Hopefully it will sell while we are in Virginia. We took a picture since it may be the last time we see it. The other house is just waiting on a buyer, also. Anyway, back to the change in plans. We will stay in the U.S. until the babies and Kerri are medically cleared for travel. We were and are a little bummed, but I guess it's for the best. We were prepared mentally and otherwise to have the babies in Costa Rica, but it will also be good to have family and friends around when they are born.
We made it to Virginia today and are getting settled in. We don't have any meetings until Wednesday, so that will give us time to get aquainted with the place and people. We will be here two months for orientation. Thanks for praying for us and please continue. Also remember to pray that the houses sell.