a blog to get you up to speed on some recent events

Well, I have sat down and dusted off the ol' keyboard.  Our blog has been seriously neglected over the last few months.  It is not that there hasn't been anything going on, rather that we have been so busy that we have been unable to sit down and fill folks in.
So here is my attempt to catch y'all up.
I'll just start in December of last year (2015).
We spent most of the month in the capital city of Kampala getting ready to welcome our daughter Corrie Lynn into the world.  Her due date was the 23rd of December, but we were also given the 21st and the 25th.  She decided to join us on the 30th, one week late via emergency c-section.

Colin took this picture of me right before we left for the hospital.  41 weeks pregnant.  I wish now that I had taken a nap that afternoon!  We were in for a long night.

Right after we were checked in.

Many many hours later, Corrie was here and this was my very tired husband's expression.  We both were exhausted!  I will spare you the picture of me at this time, because no one wants to see that.  I looked rough!

Just hours into her life in a new world.

Big sister Aggie was very excited to see mom, and Corrie.

Smother Brother was thrilled to have another sister to take care of.  He really is a great big brother for these two little ladies.

Before we left the city, we got to pick up Colin's dad, William, and his younger brother, Devin, who flew in for a 2 week visit.  

 

A few days after Colin took his dad and brother to the city to fly out, we had the newest members of the Water For All family join us here in Soroti.  Aaron and Hannah Mason are the newest WFA-ers and are prayerfully seeking where God wants them to work.  For now they will be joining us here and learning the drilling process a little better.  

Then, a little less than a week after Aaron and Hannah arrived, my mom came to visit.  This was her first time to meet Aggie and Corrie.  She came three years ago, shortly after we brought Silas home.  

We took mom to the capital and spent a few days in the city due to possible unrest surrounding the presidential elections.  Praise God there was nothing terrible and we were able to travel back home in a couple days.  But our visitors were not yet finished.  Our bosses Kim Edlund and Terry Waller are here now.  They came in this week.  Kim will head back to his family next week, but Terry is going to be staying for few more weeks to do some work with Colin and Aaron building windmills.  

The well drilling has been going wonderful so far this year.  Already we are at 29 water wells drilled this year.  God is really blessing the efforts of the men and women that are working so hard to get water for their families.  It is really great to see the fruits of their labor.  

Please be in prayer with us as we are still trying to get Corrie's Ugandan birth certificate, which we need in order to get her a U.S. birth certificate, U.S. passport, and for the visa process for Silas and Aggie.  We really would love to be in the U.S. at some point this year, but things are just not moving forward because of the elections.  This whole process has taken much much longer than we expected.  We are now looking to see if it would be better for us to finalize the adoptions in Uganda.  That would of course delay our trip back to the U.S. to be with family and friends even longer.  However, we will just continue to pray and follow God's direction. 

We are again so thankful to everyone that continues to support us and pray for us.  We couldn't be here without it!