Mommy and Daddy?

If you are freaking out about the title right now...don't.  I'll explain.

We are here in Buriram at Tree of Life Orphanage absolutely loving life.  As Danielle indicated in our previous post, a lot of what we have been doing here is handywork.  Painting, cleaning, moving sand, mowing, etc...like any house in America, the projects are endless and there is always something that needs to be done.  I tell you what though, I'm going to borrow a saying of Eric Folkers here, our team has been working like a bunch of rented mules.  Its been 90+ degrees and humid everyday and we have been working our tails off.  I'm so proud of our team.  Roger keeps saying that they made a list of things that needed to be done by the end of our three weeks here...we finished it in two.  He and Phong, his wife, are so greatful and just can't thank us enough.

The kids are really opening up to us now too.  They love to just color, play with the girls hair and just play in general.  Here is where the mommy and daddy part comes in.  There are two adorable little girls, Taan and Dtoy, who Danielle and I have fallen in love with.  There favorite game to play is "mommy and daddy."  Taan is especially grown attached to me and she melts my heart everyday.  I even got the, "I love you." before bed last night.  I melted.  Its hugs and stories after school everyday now and it's really sad that we have to leave them in a couple of days.  This past weekend was really fun with the kids here.  Saturday night we had our own worship time together and then after we decided to teach them how to line dance.  Phong was thrilled!  She learned way back when she and Roger were first married and visited Texas and couldn't wait to do it again.  She walked into the room with her cowboy hat and boots on ready to Texas two step.  It was awesome.  All of us had a great time line dancing and then we busted out Justin Bieber and the party really got started.  It was an immediate hit and the kids loved it!  We ended up dancing to anything and everything Sunday night again because they had such a fun time before.  You can imagine with no AC that things get a little sweaty and hot but none of us care because its so much fun.  I am dreading saying goodbye to all of them on Friday morning.  It's going to be more difficult than I expected I think.

Nonetheless, the end is drawing near and we cannot believe it.  I know we keep saying this over and over again but its completely true.  We will be home before we know it!

Just want to give a shout out to ZEHS Track.  Congrats on the success this year!  Another bigger shout out to my little brother for his success in track and declaring his undying faith in Jesus Christ on Sunday.  I am so proud.

Pray that Danielle and I find the energy to pour into the kids while we still can and that we have the strength to say goodbye.  Its going to be a tough end to the week and we will need all the encouragement we can get.

God Bless you all!

Josh