HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIANNA!!

Happy Happy Birthday precious Brianna! We hope you have a wonderful day celebrating! I can NOT believe it was five years ago today that Joel & Marla became parents! (have the past five years passed fast for ya'll too??!?) Seems like just yesterday we were at your wedding :) Well we love you Brianna and pray God's rich blessings on this next year of your life. Your cousin Rachel can't wait to see you again.. and David & Caleb I'm sure will look forward to wrestling with you and playing their famous 'scary snake' game.

We just got back from the Moscow ZOO! What a day!! Our friends Will & Phyllis Hunsucker (also missionaries in a city called Kovrov - about 4 hours outside Moscow) met us with their children Jaan & Raia who are the same ages as Caleb & Johanna. We had so much fun! David was hilarious.. I mean I laughed so much just watching him - when we got there James bought this little map of the zoo as a souvineer. Well David held it the whole time directing us and telling us which way to go.. was James like this?? He does the same thing at home with James' car map. Caleb loved the lions and went around the rest of the day 'roaring'. Rachel loved the horses - when she went to bed tonight she told me 'maybe when we go back to Texas I could get a job working for someone who has a horse.' (hee hee!! maybe Erinn can hire her on!! :) Here's one picture of all four of them.

Ohh and Rachel - I am praying for Mooky! I was so sad to hear about this and praying God will show you what the source of the poisoning is.. I wrote you yesterday but left it on the 'comments' section. Go below where you posted and it will read '1 comment' - click on that and you can read what I replied too. I know several missionaries who have had to leave Russia because of Cadmium & Uranium poisoning so I've done a little bit of research about this topic. Keep us updated on how Mooky is doing..

hmmmm can't seem to upload pics tonight - will do some tomorrow - our water has been off the past days and you would NOT believe what my kitchen looks like right now!! (i should post a picture).. yeah for water that comes out of the faucet!!! anyway, the water just came back on and I need to race james to the shower....:0