Preperation Week

Welp, I am here in Colorado Springs with my darling family,enjoying sweet rest and cherishing my newest little niece, Hazel! I've been gone from KC for just 5 days, but it seems like ages already! Oh dear, I miss you all already and I have not even left the country!

So let me just let you in on what a week before leaving to Africa has looked like....
Days 1 and 2: Playing soo hard with my older 3 nieces (ages 2,4 and 5) that my sister's mother-in-law nicknamed me their "live-in nanny."
Day 3: Cleaning up after the girls left for KC and lounging about the house with Miss Hazel, then going out with my sister and brother-in-law to possibly the best Mediterranean food ever!
Days 4 and 5: Shopping around town with the fam for all the little odds and ends needed for my trip. Man! I found everything on my list without a hitch! Oh, and of course spending lots of time holding Hazel!

All of these days have included yummy food that my sissy and I made together, fun workout videos with sis, enjoying a non-air conditioned house (which I actually love b/c it's never more than we could bare and actually cools off nicely at night)...and all other family things a girl would love to have squeezed in before traipsing off to foreign lands! Plus, the Lord has been filling my heart with songs to him and showing me sweet promises in His word as I gear up! Soooooo EXCITING!!!!

So, I still have days 6 and 7 before I jump on a aero-plane! Take care for now!