I just had to show Some of the beauty that

God Brightened my day with ... 

Here's a little photo trip through several things we've done in the past month:

We enjoyed going to the Compassion Home this past month.  The children stay there at the hostel so they can go to school. 

The director's cute little daughter.

The kids love seeing their pictures after they're taken!

Watching the younger guys playing soccer.

More soccer spectators.

And here are some pictures of the two newest additions to our family.

REGGIE ~

 3 months old

Rosco ~

And for Rick's birthday, I decided to do something more than just get one more 'thing' for Rick for his birthday, so we went out to a little cabin in the woods.  It was a great connecting time for us after a lot of busyness the last while.  We took Reggie along but left the other children with some well-qualified babysitters.

We could have thought that we were in N. Minnesota once again ... except for the sound of the lion roaring.

The cabin was at Night Safari Resort - hence, the decor!

Time to sign off ...

God brought bits of a wonderful verse to my mind yesterday ... this morning I finally looked up some of the 'bits' and dug into some of the meanings behind the words.

Isaiah 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

So, with the meanings that I dug up on 'Power Bible' it says to me ---

Haven't you discovered & comprehended?  Haven't you intelligently heard and acted upon it?  That the 'time out of mind' Supreme God (the one and only), Jehovah, the very Creator of the uttermost edges or coasts of the earth, doesn't faint, in fact He doesn't even get weary or tired?  There is no way to find out all of His understanding!  It's unsearchable! 

Isn't that just incredible!  And it means all the more to me because of what I am walking through right now ...

On Sunday, July 13, 2008, Reggie Andre was born ... a little boy to join our 'troop'! 

We are EXCITED!

Within a half hour we discovered that not all was completely well with his world although it didn't seem too serious at the time ... in fact, I was just a little perturbed with the hospital -- thinking that they should just let us have our little guy to hold and cuddle like I was used to doing after our children were born.  I mean really, Rick didn't even get to hold him yet.  Nope!  He was stuck in an incubator with the words that 'his breathing is labored and his sugar has dropped'.

Come to find out the next day (yesterday) that he has pneumonia and will need to be on antibiotics for 7 days at least.  This means a long hospital stay for him and ... what about me?  So, I am in at the hospital taking care of him.  Rick is running from the school to home to the hospital.  And the children are at home with Glenda.  What a way to celebrate having a baby!   Not exactly what I was thinking!

Well, God's grace ... His peace ... His surrounding love has been very real!  And even though I have cried several times,  I really do feel very much at rest here. 

And to think that the God that is carrying me NEVER GETS TIRED!  NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT WEARY!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Leaning on Him!

I need to go ... will get some pictures on here soon of our little guy!

Pray for us please!  

Renita