~Fun surprises awaited us in our house!~

 Jesus is helping us.  We're slowly but surely unpacking and getting organized...AND packing again. =(  

You'll have to pray for my heart, for I'm not ready to leave my home.  There are so MANY bins and boxes that I want to go through down stairs, so much organizing I want to get done.  

So, here are some pics of some of the fun surprises we found in our home when we flew in from Colombia last Tuesday night.  Enjoy!

~My dear sister Laura, and her family, and a lot of our dear church people came and worked in our house!  I didn't get a picture of all the things they did, but Some of the things they did (not to mention all the work they did in organizing our closets and things, and cleaning)... were: 

~some new-to-us matteresses on some of our beds, 

~a new rug in our living room (pics coming later)

~a new porch light, 

~a new heavy-duty basement door (Our old one was so FALLING APART!!)

~A new WONDERFUL access door to the basement.  Before Phillip had just 2 pieces of plywood that he would have to undo LOTS of screws to get in that door. 

~Before we left to go to Colombia in Jan. 2011, we only got to live in our USA HOME for 19 days.  So, we hadn't done anything with my kitchen floor in my temporary kitchen.  It was pretty rough looking.  

Before we came home this time, someone made put in a new floor, and made my floor look TONS better! =)  I'm so HAPPY with it.~

 ~And they added some more nice "temporary cabinets" to help make my temporary kitchen more user friendly.  So nice!~

 ~Bro. and Sis. Becker brought us home in the church van, so they could see us see all the surprises! =) ~

 ~Our dear Jr. Church kids bought and brought in NICE gifts for our children.
THANK YOU, KIDS, THAT WAS SO SWEET!~

 ~A fun welcome sign in our entry way!~

 ~The girl's room where someone laid down some carpet squares to make it nicer and warmer for the girls.  Before, the floor was just bare wooden floor with GLUE stuck to it.  =) ~

 ~A dear friend made a yummy snack to feed us all.  Here's her beautiful fruit tray.~

  ~Gramp and Gram brought our Christmas gifts that they had saved until we got home.~

  ~Everyone enjoying the nice delicious snack.~

 ~Bryan and Noah eating their snack....HAPPY to be together.~

 ~Mary in her high chair.~

 ~Darla and Sarah...THRILLED to be together.~

 ~A. Laura being with Elijah.~

 ~Me (Heather), Ms. Linda, and Moma.~

 ~Visiting together.~

 ~The church brought in a NICE food pounding!~

 ~We're feeling SO BLESSED!!~

 ~A refrigerator full too!!  THANK YOU, DEAR CHURCH FAMILY!!! Y'all are the BEST!!!~

 ~Our fun antique gas stove...~

 ~With some yummy fruit in our Costa Rican wooden bowl on top.~

  ~Cousins....having FUN playing together again.~

 ~And then ....in started SNOWING...an answer to our ELIJAH'S PRAYERS!!  He couldn't believe it.  He asked if it was REAL SNOW??  He doesn't remember seeing snow ever before in his life.  He was BEYOND happy!  =D  ~

 ~Elijah and A. Laura out in the snow.~

 ~The 3 stooges cousins and A. Laura.  =D ~

 Please pray for us as we try to find everything that needs to go, get our mission's display all ready, and get re-packed up again to leave soon.   THANKS TONS!~