Happy Birthday Caedmon, Round Three! :)

The birthday celebration is coming to an end with a sleepover - our first one! All of the New Day boys were invited to come, and the younger siblings were kicked out! Cason is spending the night with Ms. Debbie in her "awesim hut!" and Cambree is spending the night with Machila, Purity, & Laurie in Hildah & Abby's house. So the boys came over and played hard, ate spaghetti for supper, got haircuts, took baths, and are now watching Garfield before (hopefully) they will all drift off into a peaceful sleep ;) Haircuts at a sleepover - why not?! :)

Playing the Wii of course..

Caedmon's best buddies: Francis, Phillip, Misheck, Ben, & Muchoni :)

Happy Birthday Caedmon, Round Two! :)

At 2pm, we headed over to the dining hall for Caedmon's New Day birthday party! :)

I promise he wasn't crying! He loved it! :)

The party table :)

This is my shy boy as we were singing to him :)

Ready for some cake! :)

Happy Birthday Caedmon, round one! :)

Caedmon's two birthday cakes to feed 30 people!

This was his "Oh my goodness, mama, could this be what I think it is?" face!

And it was! This was what Caedmon REALLLLLY wanted for his birthday - thank you Mama Dee & Grandpa!!

Don't mess with Spiderman!

A wooden car building set from his Kimbrough cousins and Aunt Dawni & Uncle Blake!

Another one of Mama Dee's famous birthday cards - this was my favorite yet!

The Nerf gun was a big hit! Thank you Paw & B-Maw! I'm sure it will be a big hit with the boys at the sleepover tonight too!! :)

A Thor Costume from me & Blu (who isn't nearly as exciting as Spiderman!) ;)

Caedmon LOVES to do puzzles - thank you Wes & Lala! :)

He also got a yoyo and toy car from Mrs. Dianna in America, and a Thor coloring book from Caedmon & Cambree. Cambree cried when Caedmon was done opening her present and said he didn't give her a big enough hug :)

Happy Birthday Sisi!!

Sisi celebrated her first birthday at New Day today as she turned 8 years old! She is incredibly shy but has been looking forward to her party all month long! Lots of water, even though it was cold and her party was late in the day!

This was the biggest smile we could get out of her!

She loved her new Bible!

The kids are getting the hang of these "American" birthday celebrations! :)

Oklahoma Team Pics

P.E. time is SO fun, especially when Staci & Madison are the teachers! :)

Cambree adores Mackenzie :)

Since Mackenzie is going to major in preveterinary medicine, we put her to work in our chicken coop ;)

Mackenzie & Christina

We also put her to work in the bean field! :)

Axer loves Madison!!

So does Cason :) He says he will pay 100 cows to marry her!

Staci & Muchoni

The ENTIRE New Day family!

Purcell, Oklahoma Team

Madison & Mackenzie taught the kids a mini VBS during the holiday last week!

The team also led in some team building activities for our New Day staff - here is the New Day Train!

Madison with Axer

Mackenzie with Christina

This team of 4 (Lance, Staci, Madison, & Mackenzie) are doing survey work in a new area. They have visited a lot of villages and are seeing a great response to the Gospel! They are laying the foundation for what we hope will one day be a church in this area. They are also helping out around New Day with the above mentioned activities, along with helping us out in the school!

Goodbye Lubbock Team!

Annie and our newest girl, Christina

The New Day girls

The New Day boys

Jennie's Play Station - the playground built by the Lubbock team in 5 days! It is built in honor of John's 90 year old mother, Jennie Valentine!

The Lubbock team with the New Day kids on the bridge!

The team is now in Livingstone, and we have the Purcell, Oklahoma team now at New Day, so I'll post pictures of them in the coming days! Volunteer season is a blast!

Working Hard!

Debbie had some little helpers today!

Little Laurie was glad to see Chris again! (his 3rd trip to New Day!)

Beth has also helped out a lot during tutorials!

The playground bridge is up!

Bible story time to the Stars and Sunshine Classes

John getting some reading time in!

The Stars class working on their letters in the sand

Arkansas and Lubbock Teams!

We were so blessed to have the McDaniel family - pastor at Grace Point Church in Arkansas and former missionaries to Zambia come and visit New Day for a day! They were doing a massive camping/road trip through Southern Zambia but wanted to see the orphanage. So great to see them!

Yes - you do know this face! Johnny Boy is back at New Day with his team from Lubbock! This makes his 4th trip to New Day in 2 years! His team is building a playground/fort for our kids. John has been working hard with Brandon planing boards.

Brandon and Mulenga getting boards ready for the fort

Brandon's wife Annie got to make the trip this year! She's been a big help in tutorials - here she is playing Uno with our Rainbow class!