Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I have purchased my plane ticket for my return to Honduras. I will be leaving on January 22.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful time with their family over the Christmas holiday! I have enjoyed my time with family friends and Christmas was so much fun, especially with Ashlynn Kate! It is so much fun having a baby in the family!

I feel like I am making progress at re-entry. It is different being back here. I have caught myself being in a store and being surprised when I hear people around me speaking English and then I remember, Oh yes I am in Texas.

Now that I have easier access to the internet, I can post some pictures of the kids from Honduras.

Shortly after I arrived in Honduras we took the school to a museum called Chiminike in Tegucigalpa. It was a fun day! We really were not sure what to expect, but it was a very nice museum. Very well done and the kids had a great time! Actually we all had a great time! It was hard to tell who was having more fun, the teachers or the kids, we all enjoyed ourselves. During the day Lance said We arrived here with 120 students and 20 teachers, and we now have 140 kids having fun!


The kids got to try out lieing on a bed of nails. They all wanted to take a turn!






















There were a lot of hands on activities that were great fun for the kids!








Here is one of my students, Mauro, looking out of a tree.


One of the most fun things of the day was this giant climbing thing. We ALL had fun climbing on it. I didn't make it to the top, but about half way up before it was time for us to move on to the next activity.



The kids loved playing the life-size game of Operation!

And it was great fun sliding down the intestines!

I arrived in Texas about 8:30 today (actually yesterday since it is currently 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning)... I had a great trip, and was so blessed when I did not have to pay a fine when leaving Honduras today. I was told by immigration that I would have to pay a fine because my plane ticket was 3 days after my extension expired. The fine was approximately $75. Today at the airport I paid my exit fee, then I went to the immigration office in the airport. Annette explained the situation to the officer, he looked at my extension stamp in my passport and said the fine was too much for just a few days, so he gave me a new stamp allowing me permission to be in the country through December 3! So I did not have a pay a fine! What a blessing that was!

Here are a couple pictures of my cute puppy, Samson.