Famine Weekend

Thanks for all your prayers over the weekend! We had an awesome famine and the kids did amazing! I think I actually complained more then they did! :) (But in my defense, part of my headache was caused by splitting open my eyelid on a car door...yeah...I was a little disoriented, but Praise the Lord it only bled a little and no ER visit required!) 

  We all got together at 6:30 on Friday and headed out to build our cardboard shelters for the night. Matt did a great job putting our shelter together, and it was kind of romantic to sleep in a shelter he had built for us...ok maybe not since we were surrounded by 11 other people!:) The girls built a shelter on one side of the yard and the boys on the other and Matt and I had our hut in the middle! Although, I don't think that did much good since the girl's spray painted the boys boxed in the middle of the night (middle being relative since we didn't even get into bed until 2 a.m.) and the boys played gunfire over a stereo to scare the girls...yeah we slept through all of it! Anyways, after building our shelters we headed down to the church for worship, devotions, games, and sardines. Sardines is reverse hide and go seek in a church that is completely blacked out! Creepy but so much fun. At around 1 a.m. we left to dump what was left of our 29,000 chains on one of our church members lawns! So fun and they that it was hilarious the next morning. After that it was time for bed...well refer to above story not really bed but the motions of going to bed. 

  We were up by 7:30 (not near enough sleep!) and had one of the guys from our church come with a squirt gun and water balloons to get the kids...this was to simulate war lords coming to attack them! :) We got everything cleaned up and headed to the local foster home shelter to play with the kiddos and help organize some of their rooms. I didn't put any pictures up of the shelter because of legal issues with the kids. After the shelter, we headed back down to church and played more games, got ready for Sunday, worship, and basically tried to stay busy until 6:30 when it was time to eat! It seemed kinds of wrong to break a 30 hour fast where we're focusing on being hungry to help the kids who are starving by having this huge meal (thanks to all the mommy's and church members who brought in food!) but it was yummy and we appreciated it. We were able to raise over $5,500 and we're still waiting for more money to come in! Praise the Lord who can do great things! That's pretty impressive considering there was only 14 of us raising the money! More exciting is that the World Vision has a grant from the government that will match every dollar we raise with $4! So really we raised over $25,000! Very cool.

  The pictures are just random ones I picked out since you wouldn't have to see all 60 something! I love the one of Kaden's face peeking through the cardboard! :) The boys were troopers. They had a babysitter all Saturday but spent a lot of time with us. Thanks again for all your support. Stay tuned my next blog should have family pictures on it! :)