Back to the Land of Paradise!

Returning to Costa Rica was quite the event for our family, especially after being in the United States for eight months. Gloria's brother, Louie and sister-in-law traveled with us and all our luggage plus our little dog! It was an absolute joy having them help us with our transition. Before they left we went to one of our favorite restaurants, Saga, so celebrate, Louie's 40th birthday, as well as Cheryl and Gloria's birthdays!

We found our house intact, thanks to our friend, Randell. Thank you, Randell!!! You did an amazing job loving our animals and keeping the house beautiful.

It was so nice to sleep in our own beds, sit in our living room, lite all my candles, eat rice and beans, sing in Spanish, enjoy all our beautiful flowers, hearing and seeing the humming birds right outside our bedroom window, going to the beach, eat organic bananas straight from our yard, and the list goes on.

We brought home with us our sweet Morkie, Snickers, who has fit into our family quite well, only that she thinks she has to bark at every noise that she hears outside! The noises we hear here are quite different than those in Plain City, OH! Like cows mooing, chickens and roosters crowing and cackling, buses stopping in front of our house, vendors going by selling things, people just walking by our house talking, birds singing outside, other dogs barking, so many things to make her day interesting!

Fred makes sure that Snickers knows he's the KING of this household!

Carmelinda LOVES being back at Lighthouse International School. We're so glad she's able to make the transition quite easily. She's so happy to be with her her friends again, her kitty, sleep in her own bed and of course, eat lemons everyday straight from our lemon tree in our yard!

It's good to be back. We are now looking forward to some good changes that are happening in the ministry as well as for our family. We will update you on those changes as they happen.

Thanks to all of you who have prayed for us during this transition. We would appreciate more prayers during this time. It always takes awhile for one to feel "settled" again.