Anita

Miss Anita is continuing to adapt!

Rotten to the core

Katty is getting cuter all of the time but also getting ornerier. She came home from kinder yesterday barefooted. She had decided to take off her shoes in class. Well the teacher said this is the first time she has done this. The only thing she did it two times in the day and then the second time when she did the teacher hide her shoes to she if she would learn. She came shortly after asking where her shoes were. The teacher told her she did not know maybe the dog that hangs around the kinder ran off with them.
Katty comes home to tell me she has to find this dog because it has her shoes and she can not go to kinder until she finds the dog and gets her shoes back. So she is still adamantly looking for her shoes. The secret is we have them, the teacher gave them to us but Katty does not have a clue!!!

kiddos

Yovani, Brayan, Antonio, and Renia!!!

Didasko

Maryuri

Reina

When the Belpre group was here they were kind enough to invite the Casa kiddos to join in on the fun at Didasko on Easter Sunday. It was a full day for the kiddos but they loved it. It was a day of worship, easter egg hunt, a really good lunch, and relay races!

Exams

This week is full of exams for the kids, it is huge overwhelming task just to get homework done more less study with them on top of that. I am done for the day and just came over to the apt although Dorian is still over there with someone of them studying.
So keep them all in your prayers as they have exams this week.
It has been quite challengeing trying to figure out how to study and prepare with Rosy but we are making it!

Jackson

refreshed

I have had the privilege to serve beside some of the best people around these past 10 days! The Belpre group was here and it was a HUGE blessing to get to spend time with them and serve with them in this country that has stolen all of our hearts. It was just refreshing to be around them! They just have that special presence about them!
So thank you for letting us share with you and letting us work along aside with you!
Although now it is back to the kiddos! :)

House Building

Saul

the house and working on putting the floor down

Antonio even tried to help out. He was bound and determined he was going to nail. So Dorian nailed this into the elec pole for him to he would have something to hammer on. His little espressions were priceless as he grunted, groaned, and sighed as he worked and worked trying to get this nail in. Although he was quick to reassure everyone he did not need help.

This is a house that some of the group helped build on Thurday here in Santa Ana. It is so good to have familiar faces here that I love and who lift me up and encourage me!
Today we build two more houses.......more pics to follow

Continue to pray for the team as they are here and that God will lead them and show them what His plans are for them.

Katty bday!

Miss Katty

The bug...

So here at Casa all of the kids seem to be passing around a bug. It started last Thursday night and continues. Lets hope it soon works its way out of the house. I am just hoping thur all of this that I do not catch it too. The kiddos are weak, tired, and have lost their appetites. So please be praying that is passes soon. The poor kids are either throwing up, diarrhea, sharp stomach pains, and fever. So please be praying for all of here at Casa and that this bug moves its way out.

Jose

Jose is still adjusting to life here at Casa. It took a month or longer to just catch on and understand the concept of putting your head down at the table when we come to eat, but he has finally got it down.
He is very ornery! The past two and half years he has lived with a bunch or boys and it shows. He at times just does the most random boy things or says the most random things that I believe he has learned from being around those older boys. He is slowly learning the rules here even though he gets a little hot tempered and refuses to listen at times but ends up learning the hard way that that does not get him any where.

It is HOT.......

Renia, sleeping in a the strangest postion

Katty, Rosy, and Daniela

It has become to time for us to take naps on the floor again! It has gotten sooo HOT within the last week. So the kids to sort of cool off sleep on the hard cold tile floor.

Magic

Rosy being the assistant, she was unsure of what she was getting herself into and a little uneasy, but she needed up liking it and walking away proud!

They loved it!

Fitto

Reina (Monica) being silly! She laughed and giggled all thru it, she loved it!!!

Jackson

So a group from Atlanta, GA came to Santa Ana to church this AM and then after wards played with the kids and brought the kids fried chicken for lunch! Although the best part of all of that was the kids got to see magic tricks that Ken did for them. The expressions on the kids faces were priceless!

March update 2009

March 2009

We started out the month of March with Dorian and me celebrating our one year anniversary. We were able to get away for a weekend at the beach and we are both looking forward to the ways God will continue to grow us and use us in the years to come.
I spend most afternoons with the children doing homework. It is quite a task each day to help each of them complete their homework but we are making it. They seem to be doing better at the new school this year. We hope and pray that this will pay off for them in the future.
Of course with school back in session, we once again had to deal with lice with our children. It is always something that we continue to screen daily for but when multiple children come home with hit instead of just a few odd ones, it is all out war again. Living here, lice is an ongoing issue that never completely disappears.
Rosy continues to have her issues at school but we here at Casa and Happy Hands School for deaf continue to attempt to hold her accountable for her actions. She is one bright girl who will go far once her energies are focused for God. Jose and Anita, our newest children continue to adapt to life here at Casa with no major issues, just the ones you would expect with them moving from a home they have been at for a couple years.
We continue to work with Teleton (special education school) with Doris, Reina (formerly known as Monica), Sisi, and Maryuri and their special needs they have. We are just now evolving into a set schedule as to when they will go every week.Transportation of these children to Teleton & Happy Hands and even local schools is huge daily undertaking.
The end of the month we took a long awaited trip to the beach! The church here at Santa Ana, rented a couple buses and the congregation goes to the beach for a day. The kids loved it! It was a very loooong day but worth it to see the laughter and excitement with each and everyone of the kiddos as had a chance to play in the surf.
Dorian continues his duties as minister here at Santa Ana, plus continues his education and helps when he can here with homework and transportation issues with the children. Please continue to lift Dorian and myself before our Father's throne that we will have all the energy and love needed to minister to those around us here at Santa Ana.

Blessing~
Dorian & Karen Guido

Katty!!

Katty the little"princess"

smiles!

Katty, me, and Fitto

sunburnt

These are the after effects of going to the beach with the kiddos and not putting sunscreen on my legs!
My legs are swollen, burning, and reddish purplish!
Today they are much better then what they were Monday!