Haiti Here I come

I am leaving for Haiti on Tomorrow!!!!!  Craziness!  I am so excited :).  I get to go back to the place that made me feel alive.  That my life had purpose, I was helping people or they were really helping me.  I was totally happy even though, I was hot and burning in the heat.  I loved it.  I cannot wait to go back.

It has been a crazy week in preparation, but all worth it.  Rudy has been such a trooper as well.  He even helped me pack (see photo below).  Sean is away for work...which makes it harder because we will not see each other for 12 days!!!!  I leave on Wednesday (December 13th) and return late the 23rd or even early the 24th so Christmas will be here!  I have already purchased all Christmas items, packed for Haiti, finished work items (sending out WSU Holiday Cards to high school counselors and students).  I am so excited!!!!  Plus, Sean, my hubby will be doing some posts while I am gone.  I am so excited!!!!  (Hopefully, he remembers because I will not be able to call or email while I am there).  While I am gone, please pray for our trip that we will get there and leave safely.  For the women we get to reach in Haiti during the self defense training and during our after party of praying and getting to know and serving these lovely ladies.  Also, please pray for Sean while I am gone.  Thank you all for following and caring for me!!!!!


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Rudy helping me pack...he definitely is sitting on my shorts.  Don't worry, I am bringing 2 WSU shirts to represent as well.

This was also the start of packing, I packed a lot more.

Toms in Haiti

So when Sean and I went to Haiti in June, I bought Red Toms to wear and boy, were they comfy.  I loved wearing them and really wanted to purchase another pair for my trip coming up in 13 days!!!!  I leave December 14th and am SO EXCITED!!!!!  I cannot wait.  Guess what?  I have the coolest mom in the world.  She wanted to buy me Toms for my trip.  I had such a great experience on my last trip in Haiti getting to size the little kids feet for Toms shoes, that she wanted to buy them for me.  It was such a blessing too, because with Christmas and the funds for the Haiti trip, I don't think we could afford for me to get shoes just for Haiti.  I love my mom to pieces, she knows my heart inside and out.  Thanks Mom!  And thanks for giving shoes to a child in need.

Haiti Women need your Prayers

Women in Haiti need your Prayers!  We are going to Haiti on December 14th to help the women in Haiti learn self defense, because there are no laws in Haiti to protect the women from rape or any form of violence.  We are also doing a prayer project with the women as well.  We will be giving a 'pray' bracelet to the Haiti women and they will make a bracelet with their name on it.  We need people (doesn't have to be women) to participate!  You will get the bracelet with the Haitians woman's name and they will also get to pray for you!  What you need to do is give me your email address if you are interested and send me 2 prayer requests.  You will receive your bracelet when we get back from the trip and also the prayer requests from the Haitian woman.  The time commitment is one year and if you are having trouble praying, wearing the bracelet of the woman would be a constant reminder.  Please join us, we need about 30 more people to pray for these wonderful, beautiful women.

Thank you for listening.  Please let me know if you know of others that might be interested in participating.

Garage Sale

First customer!

These guys were awesome!  Could speak Russian.  We sold them one of our bikes.

My cousin Amber and I had a garage sale to make some money for our trip to Haiti.  It was a lot of fun, but really cold.  We did this actually in September, but had to start somewhere.  I love Garage Sales so I had a blast.  Plus, my dad and Rudy helped hold down the fort as well.

I am going to Haiti! Again!

So excited everybody!  I have the opportunity to go to Haiti again this December!  I am going with Brookview Community Church, the church that Sean and I attend.  We went with them in June and I get to go back again!  And the best part, well, one of them is that my cousin Amber is coming too!  I am so excited and proud of her.  I am stoked that we get to go together!  We are going to be teaching, well the instructors, women in Haiti in how to defend themselves in self defense.  Rape is not considered a crime in Haiti and the women are left feeling helpless.  We have the opportunity to give them hope and the power to fight back.  We will also be loving on them and telling them and showing them how amazing and beautiful they are.  We will be painting their toe nails and washing their feet.  I cannot wait to be humbled by washing the women's feet.  

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I cannot wait to meet these women and serve them!

Part 2 of Day 5 at Wahoo Bay

After Church we went to Wahoo Bay a resort in Haiti.  Haiti is a beautiful country.  The people are beautiful and the country is beautiful.  It was a lot of fun to relax with our team and to rest.  I had mixed feelings because I really wanted to see the water and go swimming, but seeing a resort that blasted American music with people drinking in the water, spending money on food left and right was difficult amongst all the poverty.  Literally, 4 minutes away children were starving and there was this resort!  The good thing though was that it did provide jobs for Haitian people.  I talked with one young man and he said he loves working at Wahoo Bay because he gets to live there and he loves it.  So there are a lot of positives I guess.  I just had a sinking feeling that this felt wrong.  I did swim and eventually, had a blast but it was weird.














Sean and I in the water


The guys on our team


Sean did get to enjoy some crab








Beautiful sunset








Can you see the mold?  We did not eat the bread....


My chicken BBQ chicken dinner, so good!

Sean's dinner: Creole BBQ chicken.

This juice tasted so good, like watermelon.


Weird plant/palm tree with berries.


Love all of the Haitian artwork.






Wrist bands we had to wear in the resort.



Thanks for reading!