While J is Away

This week Ella Kate and I have been staying at my parents. J and a group from our church headed to Guatemala last Saturday to work with La Senda orphanage/school. They have had an amazing week and were supposed to return today. However, a volcano had other plans and decided to cover the airport and all of Guatemala City with ash. J and the group are an hour away, so everything at the orphanage was fine. So, after a very long day of trying to figure things out, the group will leave at 6:30 am tomorrow morning to ride a bus to San Salvador, El Salvador. They will spend tomorrow night there and fly out on Sunday. They are due to return late Sunday night. This was the best option considering the earliest flight out of Guatemala city will be on June 3rd assuming the volcano stops! Anyway, please lift the team up in your prayers. Pray for safe travels and that they will make it through customs and eventually back in to the states without problems. Also, please lift of the people of Guatemala. Many homes were destroyed and they still do not know the extent of the damage.

So, since Ella Kate and I have been hanging out with the Joneses while J is away, we have stayed busy! Today, Mom, Jordan and I took Ella Kate to the Natural Science Museum. She LOVED it!!! Daddy and I had gone to Bass Pro the other day and EK thought it was awesome, so I knew she would love all the fun critters at the museum. Here are a TON of pictures from our day.
Mommy and Ella Kate...don't you love the rustic background? This is about as close to the woods as I would ever like to be!!!!
Auntie Jo and EK...EK is so happy to have her fun aunts to entertain her this week. She will probably be depressed when we actually go home to our house!
Kay Kay and EK and a brown bear
Ella Kate loved the bear. One of her favorite books is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?"

One of EK's newest things is to point at everything. It is pretty cute.




It was a super fun day! We passed by the Children's Museum and it is coming along very nicely. I can't wait until this fall when it opens!!!!!