We had a great New Year's Eve party with our New Day family! Wes and Laurie asked us to plan it, so we brought some games along and some decor and had a wonderful night! We even made it to midnight (quite easily!) Happy 2020!
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| Everyone loved the photo booth! |
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| Here's to losing some weight in 2020 after seeing these pictures.... ;) |
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| Laurie, Sydney, and me! |
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| Caedmon with Teacher Carolyn! |
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| Fun times! |
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| Caedmon and Lushomo |
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| Cason with the Middle Boys |
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| Caedmon and Chileleko |
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| Cam and Laurie |
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| Vaseline/cotton ball throw! Margaret Anne and Teacher Hildah did great! |
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| Mama Loveness and Mama Zelly were awesome! |
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| Caedmon & Machila - best friends! (But they can get married...we'd be ok with that. ;) |
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| SO much dancing! |
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| And Limbo of course! Chipego and Axer won! |
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| Caedmon and the Big Boys - they spent about 10 out of 14 nights together! |
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| On New Year's Day, we woke up to some electricity issues. Blu said, "I thought I'd never have to climb a pole again!" |
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| He HATES heights! |
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| The New Day pictures were on New Year's Day, so we got to be there for that! Getting some smiles from CJ! |
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| Such a sweet family! |
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| Cason and CJ |
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| Thankfully this rash is almost gone!! We had some very interesting physical ailments this trip! |
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| My favorite picture of the houses - Mama Loveness' house - those are some HAPPY girls! |
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| Cambree claimed she was in their family :) |
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| Mulenga's family! |
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| That's a lot of New Day kids! |
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| New Day Staff |
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| Me and Hilz |
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| I'm getting shorter... |
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| Me and Mama Tembo! |
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| Us with Mama Liz's family! |
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| Us with Papa Wes & Mama Lala |
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| Us with Chipo |
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| Us with Hildah & Laurie |
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| Us with Mulenga's family |
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| Feeding CJ |
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| After the pictures, we had prayer & praise in the shelter and then told everyone bye while it was pouring down rain! Here's Blu and Maggie! |
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| We drove Hildah home and said bye there! Truck selfies! |
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| And then, bright and early on January 2nd, we drove to Livingstone and began our journey home! We've been in this airport a few times! |
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| Ready to board! |
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| Headed to Johannesburg! |
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| One last stop at Mugg & Bean and doing some semester exam studying - Caedmon was enthralled, you can tell. |
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| Our colorful Etihad Airways plane - headed to Abu Dhabi and then on to Paris for the weekend! |
This was a good trip to New Day. It was a good chance to say "healthy" goodbyes for our family and to bring some closure to a huge chapter of our lives. We are grateful that God provided a way for us to return, and we are so excited to see how well New Day is doing!
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