Recent pics

We have been pretty busy around here. Matt got back from Columbia and Iz and I got back from NC the same day. We have been trying to get our place back in order and slow our lives down a bit. Isabella is growing everyday...and getting more hair!!
She now loves to put on hats by herself. She is finally using her sign language a lot more..it seems like it has kicked in. I am trying to teach her mommy and drink; we'll see how that goes.

She is looking more and more like a little girl instead of a baby. It is sad for me. I am getting ready to enroll her into a mothers-day-out program at a local church. I am getting a little nervous about leaving her. But I know it will be very good for her and me. It is just two half days a week. It will be nice to get some time to myself...but at this point I can't imagine leaving her for the whole day. I feel very blessed that I can stay home with her everyday. I am sorry I don't have any pictures from NC; Matt had the digital and I had to use our film SLR.

She didn't seem to happy in this picture..she was just getting upset because I wasn't showing her the previous picture I took fast enough. These kids and technology.

NO SHOES, NO SHIRT, NO PROBLEM ....

well, i still don}t have my suitcase, clothes, medical stuff. and i still don{t know how to use this foreign keyboard. my attitude has been a little bad, and i am sorry about this. i am finding the work hard with people who have a completely different concept of work and time as myself.

we did good work yesterday and i again saw 20 patients. we went to church with the péople in the community today and the entire day has been a great deal of disorganization, which is challenging for me.

i have confirmed that my bags are in this country, but we are not sure what city they are in. please pray for this, although at this rate we might be leaving before i actually get them.


on the bright side - we had an amazing fish dinner at a beach restaurant. tremendous sunset between the mountain and ocean.

Funny Colombia Blog

Well, there actually isnt much funniness to my trip so far. The {funny} of the title is in relation to the fact that i dont have normal keys on the keyboard. some also may find it funny that my luggage is lost and i have been wearing the same clothes for more than 48 hrs, which includes working in the hot colombian weather.

anyway, im having a hard time with a good attitude down here so far. im also having a hard time trying to do medicine with a nurse stethoscope and nothing else. interestingly being on the internet for the first time in 3 days is actually the most normal i have felt, which is a little sad. please pray that they send my luggage. es no bueno que equipaje es no esta en la aeuropuerto.


i do need to report our living arrangement are absolutely amazing, with a small rooftop pool approx 200 or 300 ft directly above the ocean. to the right you see the ocean. and to the left you see one of the higher mountains in colombia, awesome