They're here.....por fin

Oh to see the sweet bond in brothers hand in hand helping one another. That is my prayer as a family of brothers and sisters that we may walk hand in hand and be there for one another. I love ya all! Thank you so much to all of you have cheerleaded along the paths and have helped us get to where we are. Here are a few pictures from today. ENJOY!
Marvin, a little worn out....
Weeeee....oh how sweet the older one helping his little brother,
Francisco, Jose, Mario, Marvin
Dilcia and little Jose eatting lunch.
Timo playing with Francisco with ELMO
Marvin, I think he found a monster truck!

The boys stepping out of the van with their little bags and ready to go see their new home.

Ok so 5 little boys tonight have a new place to call home. We went to INFA today to pick up the kiddos. Although one thing we were not expecting is to see the boys momma there. As soon as we walked in she lost is and covered her face as she sobbed into her hands. She did not want to let her boys go and let them go with someone she knows nothing at all about. We tried to reassure her that this was what was best for her and the boys. So as we sat there and embraced her and told her that it would be ok and that God was in control. Let me tell ya seeing that mommas heart hurt immediatly brought tears to these eyes. The sad thing is it did not even phase the boys that they were packing up and moving on. They had their bags in their hands and were ready to get in the van and go.

So after getting all of the paper work and all squared away we were on our way to Santa Ana. The boys soaked up the moments there in the car and thought that it was one of the best things ever. One of the boys even said how awesome the car was. As for any of you who have seen our car it is not so great but it sure does get us to and from. It was just sweet to see the things they appreciated that I would not even think twice about. The rest of the day consisted of them just playing and just soaking everything in, here at their new home.

As we were playing outside today one of the boys came up to me and asked if he was going to get to play again tomorrow. I answered him with well of course. He wanted to know how long he would be here and so on . He then said you even mean at night time we are here, and he said we get to play all of the time then. Then I responded with well at night you have to sleep and he was not too sure about that he just had so much to take in that he just wanted to play, play, play!

Ok well today was a exhausting day but oh such a good one at the same time. It is exciting for me to think what God is going to do in these little boys hearts. Pray that they come to be warriors for HIM.

Please continue to bring these sweet little boys before our great big daddy!
Marvin- 7 years old
Mario - 5 years old
Jose - 1 year old
Jose Yovani - 8 years old
Fransico - 2 years old

Ok I will try to keep you all updated on pics and stories! But ya know being a momma is a full time job so who knows if I will have time.......don't worry I will make time. Can't wait for so many of you to be here and get to love on these kiddos with us.

Ok it is time.....

These are the kiddos.......
Here in a few days we will we offering HOPE to some kiddos, finally! The House of Hope will be sheltering some sweet kiddos. The time has finally come! What we have all waited for. It sure hasn't been easy to get to where we are, but here we are!! Satan you will not win this one, we will kick your butt!!!!!

Please continue to pray that this ministry is HIS! Pray for abudance of wisdom to be poured out on us.

The small things.....

A little boy who is sweet and dear to my heart just had himself his eighth birthday......Saul.

We try to have little fiestas for the kiddos here in Santa Ana on the property. Well we are finding we can not do it for everyone. Even though oh so badly we would love too it just will not work out that way. Most of them have never had a party in their life.

For Saul's bday he and his mother had talked about this day forever. And finally the day came. A few weeks earlier he had recieved a new outfit and he had been waiting in wear this outfit for the special day. Well him and his mom show up here at the house on Saturday and he is not wearing his new outift. So I get to talking to them and ask them what they are doing for the day and so on, and of course nothing special. We'll we had nothing at all planned for his bday, so the best I could think of was to take him to the pulperia. He looks at his mom with a huge grin on his face and says, "Ok mom can I go put on my special outfit now."
So away him and his mom went to go change, just to get ready to go to the pulperia. So shortly they return here to the house and are ready to go. He tells me to make sure the I get my camera b/c he wants to get lots of pictures of him on his bday and in his new outfit and make sure that we send them to Bryan, the guy that gave him his new outfit. So now it was time for picture taking time, and then off to the pulperia. So off we go to the pulperia. Saul is pretty shy so he was not jumping all around asking for this and that, but he was content just with ice cream. Then I began to ask him well what about chips?, coke?, and he just sat there with a grin on his face and shruged his shoulders. Well he ended up with a few little goodies and he thuoght that it was one of the best things ever.
We take way too many things for granted......just seeing the joy he had instilled joy in me.

Ok, so I hear that some of you need my email address, so here it is karendvaughan@gmail.com

We are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. We should have kiddos soon!

The beauty of it all....

Even in the midist of all of the poverty here in Honduras, there is beauty. You just have to be aware of His creation. Whether it is a beautiful little child with little brown eyes gazing into your yours. Or as you are driving down the road you spot a breath taking country side. God is all over this country just like anywhere else. It is neat that I can still find His beauty in the midist of the muck and yuck of Honduras. This past week we got to travel to a few new places here on Honduras. We are loving that we are getting to see all of Honduras while we are here. Hopefully there is still a lot more to see and experience.

Alot of these sights were sort of a comfort to me b/c they reminded me of good ole WV.