A long time

It has been a while since we have posted. Sorry for those who are faithful followers of the blog.

Since January we have been in the States for the birth of our third child. Violet Sue was born on March 10, 2010. So for one hour we can offically say that we had three kids under the age of three (Samuel turned three on March 11). Violet has been a great baby, in fact so great that we as a family decided to drive 1300 miles down to Florida only a week after she was born!

Now we are learning what is means to be out-numbered. Samuel always has something to say and is very mechanical, having to explain to anyone in sight how something works and is put together. Evangeline (who turns two on June 25) still has a limited vocabulary of poo-poo and bye-bye but she has become quite the monkey with no fear, always happy to get out of her high chair and sit on the edge of the tray with her feet dangling and a huge smile on her face. Then Violet, who is only heard if she is hungry or getting smashed by Samuel and Evangeline while they wrestle too close to the bouncy seat.

Our time in the states has been great with our family and friends. In a few weeks we will be driving out east to Virginia to visit Gretchen's family and from there I (Justin) will be heading to Czech for some leadership meetings then into Albania to get everything ready for our summer ministries.

We were originally going to go back to Albania in May, but my younger brother Jared decided that it would be a good idea to get married right in the middle of the summer (July 3) :) We are glad for the timing of the wedding though, because that means that our kids will have some extended fun in Grandma's pool and we will get to see the fire truck on the 4th of July!

Our scheduled departure date is July 6 and then our summer camp ministries start July 9. Please pray for this summer, we are praying that God would reap a huge harvest through a lot of the evangelistic efforts that are going on. I will write more on camps later, but we just wanted to update and let you know that we are still updating this thing even though it has been a while.

Thank you for your prayers and support! There are a lot of exciting things happening for the Kingdom in Albania and we are grateful to be a part of it!