Wednesday - Lots of play, and we worked as well

Wednesday was another hot, sunny, loud, fulfilling day here at Hogar de Amor. We started the morning right with chilaquiles for breakfast and then it was off to the races!

Oh, and we also started the morning right with a devotional :)

To be honest, I have no idea what the sports group was up to today. It looks like a lot of tripping over kids. But I didn't see any blood and I certainly didn't hear any complaining from the kids, so we'll count it as a total success.

More raucous fun at the sports activity

Crafts were a little less violent and the kids loved making picture frames for their pictures

In upstairs games we played tic-tac-toe or, in Spanish, gatos (no, I don't know why it's called "cats")

We had a blast - I'm pretty sure we invented Mexican curling with frisbees and tile floors

They took their gatos very seriously

We worked for a few hours, had a fantastic lunch at the señorita home, and then went back to work. The señoritas took their cooking very seriously and we were the happy recipients of their efforts!

For reasons I can't understand, we seem to have very few photos of work Wednesday. I guess all the days just run together and we loose interest in taking pictures of each other painting and cleaning and sweeping and sweating.

But I promise, we did a lot more than take photos with cute Mexican boys and lounge on couches mending clothes.

We got kicked out of our normal mending place so the señoritas could set up for lunch. We were fine with sewing from the comfort of a couch

And in the evening - a party at Casa Matriz!

The games are always exciting - we started with musical chairs, moved on to hot potato, and ended with piñatas. And it was all raucous and loud and very very fun.

Fighting for the last chairs!

Spaghetti and pizza for dinner - it was quite a party

And here come the piñatas!

They whack, they scrimmage for candy, and they do it all at the same time - watch your head!

Ready for piñata number 2

Shane gives it his darndest

We kept breaking our whacking sticks, so Jenny was stuck with a very short stick

But we overcame and ended up with lots of candy and even a little piñata clown.

Thanks so much for all of your prayers and support and love. It's so fun to see your comments and likes and we really appreciate all of your encouragement from afar.

We definitely appreciate your prayers - here are some requests for today:

• Our sick folks are doing better but still aren't at 100%. Please continue to pray for all of those that are sick, that they would heal and regain their strength. And pray for those who are well that we would stay well!
• Please bless the work that we have done this week. Pray that the kids and houseparents would feel our love as they look at every newly painted wall, mended pair of pants, and replaced light fixture and know that they are prayed for, provided for, and treasured.