Visit to the Logos Hope

The Logos Hope is currently in the port of The Hague in Holland. Since that is only a three hour drive from our house in France, we decided this was our chance to see an OM ship and of course to visit Jérémie! We spent two nights on board. Since I had a hard time choosing pictures I will let the pictures tell the story.

Here we are with our niece, Débora who jumped at the chance to join us. As you can see, the port is right at the edge of town (and it was windy)!

We received a royal welcome.

We brought French necessities to the Frenchies on board.

Visitors get to take a video voyage that presents the ship.

The Logos Hope is a floating bookstore and we LOVE books!

Jérémie gave us a tour of the engine room where he works.

It doesn't show, but the noise this generator made was deafening, and there were three more just like it that weren't running!

Visiting the "gigantic" room of Ruben and Betsy, friends from our church who are also on board. (We couldn't all fit in the room Jérémie shares with 3 cabin-mates.)

We had a suite (and two more rooms) with a bit more space than Ruben and Betsy, since we were visitors! The children thought that sleeping (and living) on a ship was wonderful. Laura and Wesley cried at the idea of going home.

We even got to see a lifeboat drill!!!!

We had a great visit with Jérémie on board the Logos Hope!!!

New arrivals on the farm!

Well, it feels like spring is here, (sorry for you poor folks that still have to deal with snow) and spring on the farm, means babies!!!!! The first babies of the season were born today. Their arrival was very much anticipated.

They were due on March 6th. Being overdue helped to push the anticipation level up a notch. Mélanie woke up at 5 am on Friday after dreaming of their birth and went to see if they had arrived! (Now that is a dedicated farm girl!) For the last few days, we have been checking on Vicky (we didn't get to name her) first thing we get up in the morning, last thing before we go to bed, and almost every hour. We were hoping to get some great birth footage. But the babies (or should I say kids?) made their appearance on Sunday morning while we were ALL at church!
Since Philip was preaching the final sermon of our series on Thessalonians at the time they were born, the kids have considered Thessa and Niki as names. But we are still open for suggestions. Please leave your ideas in the comments below!!! We have a boy and a girl by the way.
We bought Vicky a week ago from a friend that needed to stop goat farming.(She still has a couple more to sell if anyone is looking for a goat!)  It has been a long time since we have had goats on our farm. Philip is already getting excited about the goat cheese we will be making.

Hard to say which kids are cutest!!!!