Home

Well, we are home. We are so thankful to see our wonderful children. Madelyn and Samuel were at the house waiting on us. Aaron is still in Oklahoma and will come tomorrow with Kristin's sister. The saddest story ever is from Kristin's mom. Aaron was outside playing just the other day (almost 2 weeks separated from us) and became so quiet that grandma had to go check on him. He was sitting still on the porch and when grandma asked him what was wrong he said, "I'm sad". She asked what he was sad about and his reply was, "My mommy and daddy are not coming back to get me". We both cried over this. We cannot wait to see our little Aaron.

We traveled for 20 hours and the longer we traveled, the less luggage we had. We left Tyler with 7 trunks. We left two with the Cashes on purpose. We checked five trunks in at Uganda. When we arrived in Detroit we were down to three trunks. After going through customs we rechecked the three remaining bags and flew on to DFW. When we arrived at the baggage claim in DFW we only had one bag left. The lost baggage attendant was perplexed. We prayed before we left Uganda that God would give us peace if we lost luggage. We were nearly forced to separate ourselves from our passports and luggage in Uganda for reasons that was unclear to both of us. We said to each other that getting to the US with all trunks would be unlikely and that is what led us to pray at that moment for peace and acceptance if this did occur.

I want to comment Grace for her wonderful travel skills. She never complained about walking through the airports with her bag and never spent time pouting because of her significant fatigue.

I am sorry I did not post more pictures but will do so now. I will try to label some of them so that you see where they were taken.

Thank you all so much for praying for us. We have been blessed by the trip, the Cashes, Jenkins, Hixons and the Ugandan and Rwandan Churches.