Longwood Gardens

Philippe & I got to go to Longwood Gardens yesterday, courtesy of free tickets from my Aunt Lorraine.  This is my favorite time of year to go there because of all the beautiful tulips so I was really excited to be able to share that with Philippe, especially since it was his first time to walk thru the gardens.

 I had to include this picture because every time we see geese,

Philippe remarks..."that's meat! we would kill & eat those in Africa!" (haha)



CCS girls soccer

Our good friend, Steve Fleming, recently invited Philippe to come & coach the Conestoga Christian School girls soccer team during one of their practices.

As you'll see from these pictures, Philippe had a great time with the girls...

and I think they enjoyed him just as much too.

SIMCO

We were incredibly busy all throughout the 2 weeks we recently spent down in Charlotte, NC at SIM attending their candidate orientation from the 3rd-17th, so we don't have a whole lot of pictures to share. Here are a few that we were able to get towards the end of our time there...

Philippe was obviously more relaxed once the intense 2 wks were over, haha

These are all the kids that were part of the orientation with, dressed in traditional

outfits depending on where their family's are planning to go serve God

 The woman in the center, Patricia, has shepherded all of us pictured here throughout the entire application process & now she is releasing us into the care of others at SIM to walk the next steps of the journey with us until we're each out on our respective fields of service

We were thrilled to have been able to meet & spend time with this family in particular -

the Larrabee's - Darin, Holly, Samuel, Rebekah & Gabrielle

our future teammates in Senegal

We also had the opportunity to have pictures taken of the two of us

(or should I say, three of us? :-) for our SIM connection card.

Here are some of our favorite outtakes...