Deep Breath.....

Deep Breath.....  that's what I do a lot lately!!

It's Spring!!  Shawn and I are in awe every day with all the beautiful flowers and trees we see and smell every day.  It's been a while since we have been around so many different trees with awesome flowers,  Bozeman just doesn't have the amount of flowering trees. 
We can't wait for our favorite time of the year, SUMMER!!!  Adah wants to be outside every moment of the day.

Now for the reason for this post.  As some of you have seen we are doing a kick off on June 1st to start raising money for our Adventure to Morocco.  Some of you have said to us that they had no idea we were thinking of this and why we didn't mention it to them before.  There are many reasons for this....

First, we have been talking about this for over a year now.  When we left Africa a year ago, we knew we would go back it was just a matter of when.  We left before we were planning on it and things didn't go the way we wanted.  Opportunities came up for us to stay but I needed to go home for a while and clear my head.  We have some very good friends over in Fes that have been doing some great things over there and need our help. 

Second, I wasn't ready until now.  I have been praying for the right time and what we should do and it has become apparent that the time is now.   Shawn would have stayed in Morocco if it wasn't for me wanting to be in Grand Rapids.  We both felt Adah needed to be around her family for a while and it has been wonderful being around Grandparents and her cousins. (her aunts and uncles too :) )

Thirdly, I didn't want negative responses.  I realize we don't live like others would want us to (house, steady job we hate but brings in some money, 2.2 kids, living around family).  We have had the awesome opportunity to live in some great places (and not so many, Galena).   We love our lives, the opportunities we have and will give to Adah is priceless.  We believe we are not on this earth to live in our little houses on a hill side (a little side joke) but to go OUT into the WORLD and help others.  There are some people in our lives that don't agree with our decisions and I am truly sorry for that.  This decision was both of ours and we are just doing what God is telling us to do.

This was not a quick decision or an easy one.  We had a lot of people praying for us and our decision.  This kick off isn't saying we are moving tomorrow, we truly have no idea when it will be, it could be 6 months it could be closer to 12.  We have a certain amount of money we have to raise and we are not going to move unless we have that amount.

The kick off we are having on June 1st is just the beginning of this long and crazy trip.....
We would love for each and every one of you to join us in this adventure of ours, either praying for us and the people of Morocco or giving financially.  We will be going over all of our needs at the kick off but we will have more info on details later to come on this blog so check back soon!

Deep breath, it really does help....

Jamie, Shawn and Adah