Return to InstaFriday!

Its been a long time since I posted a simple, care free blog post. To take the time to remember the little, happy, peaceful moments that needed to be snagged (on instagram) is so important. I think this is my first InstaFriday from El Salvador. Man  life was different when I first started joining in on Jeannett's idea! I'm marijmarks if you want to follow along on our adventures. Plus, Jeannett reminded us all this week that we don't have to have a perfectly crafted blog and/or post to be relevant. Plus my Grandpa has been missing the regular stuff.
Last week was a whole lot of recovering from chikungunya for Izzy, a nasty bronchitis for Addison, and the usual stomach things for the rest of us. So it feels good to take a look back at some happy. Plus I got to see my  "Jane" at the orphanage yesterday. Which is always good.

We got a HUGE shipment of spanish books from my sister's Kindergarten class in Minnesota. The students each added a Spanish version of a book to their Scholastic Book orders and blessed our Nutrition and Development Center kids immensely!!! Kids in the U.S. + Kids in El Salvador = Awesome.  Now they have books to read for the fist time ever. I'm serious. First ever. There are no libraries and no books stores. None.

Banana Smiles :)

Hello gorgeous. 

I love our movie nights. I love "God's Not Dead" in Spanish. I love how excited they get about free popcorn. Sharing Jesus. Its the why in all of this craziness.

Because El Salvador. That's how we roll here... with little blond heads out the moon roof and little boy tushy in my face....

Except only when we are stuck for an hour behind a parade. He thought he was pretty awesome. And didn't draw a bit of attention..... in case you were wondering, his little blond self is ALWAYS drawing attention. Its hard to miss an uber white kid, who is always in the middle of some sort of Star Wars/Avengers/Ninja Turtle battle.

And then he was tackled by some guys from our World Race team, his sister and some friends. Which is Donovan's love language. And in case you were curious, there were 10 people in this 6 person SUV. 

Have a wonderful weekend!