I had to write about this before I forgot it. Grandma and Grandpa Osburn are still here (they stayed a few more days than planned since I have been living in the bathroom since getting back…I’ll spare the details, but I’ve been grateful they’ve been here to help with Harrison) and Grandpa was pretending to be asleep on the couch earlier this afternoon. He would snore loudly and then Harrison would go up to him and tickle him and ‘wake’ him up. At Harrison’s nap time I asked him if he was ready to go ‘night-night’. He layed down on the floor in the living room with a pillow, and then started snorting very loudly, like he was pretending to snore. It was hilarious. And the funniest part was he had his eyes open, and was trying not to laugh at himself, but he knew he was doing something funny.
We got back to Cedar Rapids on Saturday night at about 10:20, so about an hour later than scheduled. With the weather being a little bad on the way home, too, we didn’t get to bed until about 1:00, but we made it safely. What an amazing trip. I will never forget the people I met and the things I saw, and the way I saw God moving in our group and in the people we met. I will hopefully have some pictures soon, and will post more about it as I process over the next few days. Thanks for all of your prayers…they were definetely felt the whole week.
By the way…Harrison had a great week with Daddy and the grandparents. I am relieved. 
In about 15 hours (yikes!) we’ll be meeting at church to head to the airport!! I am actually pretty much ready to go except for a few things I’ll need to put in my bag at the last minute. If you want to check the updates, you can go to our church website and it should take you right to the update page. (Or, the website is www.calvaryonline.org and you can click the upper right tab where it says ‘Guatemala Updates’.) Thanks for your prayers up to this point and for the ones that will be said over the next 9 days. We get back late on Saturday the 16th, so I’ll try and post something on Sunday. Adios!
I know that everyone else who blogs is busy, so I really don’t have an excuse…I’ve just been kind of consumed lately with getting last minute details of the trip ready. Exactly a week from now I will be in Guatemala with 23 others from church. We leave at 3:00 in the morning…I’m debating on whether or not to even go to bed the night before, but I keep telling myself I HAVE to get everything ready in time for me to go to bed by 8:00 or so, otherwise I will be exhausted. We’ll see how it works out.
I was really hoping to have some pictures up by now, too, but I am still using Kelly’s computer when it is available and I still don’t know how to download the pictures onto it. I keep meaning to ask, but he’s been working a lot at church getting some computers ready, and working on a video for a business here in town. When we do see each other, it’s more of a passing in the hall, or sitting down for supper in between his going to and from church…and I’d rather not discuss how to put pictures on the computer. :) It should be better after Saturday, so hopefully we can get some good together time in on Sunday and Monday, and maybe I’ll manage to get some pictures up.
Harrison has been climbing on chairs, playing his new drum and drumsticks, saying “yeah” when you ask him a question, getting a lot of new teeth in, and many, many other things. He is just so active…this morning we were in our bed and he was drinking his bottle, and I kid you not, he moved the whole entire time. I was just laying there watching him move constantly…rolling around, lying on his back and kicking his feet up and down in the air, swinging his arms around… you get the idea. He made his way onto every square inch of the mattress, and we have a big king size bed. It made me exhausted just watching him. But he’s been blessed with a lot of energy and I know it will be to his advantage. It just makes me tired sometimes. :) But right now I’m listening to him snoring through the monitor, fast asleep. So precious. He’s resting and gearing up for another full day tomorrow. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
