NEWS!!

First, another Merry Christmas to everyone. We are continuing our Christmas tour of the U.S. We've been in Cary, North Carolina for the last few days with plans to return to Salisbury soon. Heidi's dad is feeling better and we're hoping to spend a few more days there this coming week.

We've gotten our sports fix so far with a Michigan State basketball game (win), a North Carolina basketball game (win), a Carolina Hurricanes hockey game (win), and we have another Carolina basketball game and another Carolina Hurricanes game on tap for tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone's generosity this year (our families and friends are awesome!) we'll be bringing some great Christmas loot back to Guatemala. We have lots of money and meds that have been donated to Agape In Action (Merry Christmas to the people of Guatemala), a heated mattress pad and some flannel sheets, some books, a new Palm Pilot for Heidi, a boatload of DVDs and a DVD player, some iTunes credits, and lots, lots more.

We'll also be taking BACK to Guatemala something we brought with us but didn't tell you all about. As of tomorrow, we will be 11 weeks pregnant! Our due date is in July 2007. Thanks to our friend, Dr. Marcy Powell, we have an ultrasound picture to share with you. That will be the first one you see below. How you can look at one of those and not believe in God is beyond us. We got to see him/her move around today and it was amazingly touching!

The second picture below is of our beautiful new niece, Della Scott Michael (Heidi's sister's daughter). The third pic is of her big brother, Boone, playing with his Guatemalan drum stick (it came with a drum, but the box looked more appealing at the time - go figure).

And the fourth pic is of Heidi practicing her baby-carrying skills with the closest available baby(with Della Scott's mom and grandmother looking on/preparing to catch if the rebosa doesn't work according to design!)

Well, that's about it for today. And if we don't "talk" again before then, Happy New Year!!!