A Little Boy's Prayer

Every night when we pray together, Isaac starts his prayer off with, "Gahver in Heaven". When translated this is, "Father in Heaven" and "God in Heaven" all rolled into one. There is nothing better than to listen to our children's prayers. What a blessing!

Photo Essay From Russia

These are some of our first pictures from Russia. The first is from our first Team Meeting at the Rehurek's. The second is of the boys watching a movie on the computer before we purchased a table, couch or TV. The third is Miriam's bath in the kitchen sink. The next is of Jesse and Jonas in their bath. The next is of Nahum after he busted his head open and had to get a butterfly band-aid put on the back of his head. The next one is of Miriam in her pink high chair and then of Isaac and Miriam getting into the tea drawer. The last two are of all the Moorhead children getting into my clean pile of laundry and of Isaac getting his first Russian haircut, from his Daddy, of course.

First Russian Meal

I am very blessed to have a new Russian friend who is also my Nanny. Her name is Oksana and she comes during our Russian lessons and on Wednesday, she stays until the evening so that I can get more done, like getting groceries. She stayed late today and after getting groceries and taking the children outside, she taught me how to make the most traditional Russian meal - Borsch. We had a great day and now I am enjoying another Russian tradition: tea and chocolate.

Saturday

Our morning started around 6 when the Buds climbed up in our bed. Thankfully, they rested with us for about another hour. For breakfast I made pancakes and I even made syrup. It was yummy. We hung out at home together, had lunch and then took naps. After naps, we took a long (20 min.) walk to a nearby park, walking through open air markets and crowded sidewalks, busy streets and even busier intersections. The boys had a blast playing at the park and on the way home we stopped at a mall where there was a grocery store. We bought onions, because Jonathan wanted to make his famous meatballs for supper. We arrived home, bathed, had a scrumptious supper and then put the boys and Miriam to bed. We had a long, but wonderful family day. How different this week will be with Russian lessons, many trips to the market, Jonathan away at the Seminary and the start of Homeschool. We covet your prayers for strength and stamina for the week ahead.

The pictures are of our little messy eater and the boys on their new bunkbeds.

For GreatMother

This is for GreatMother, Jonathan's Grandmother, who went home to be with the Lord about 5:45 this morning.  She had been struggling with altheismers for years.  She was a wonderful woman and a perfect example of what a servant should be.  Please pray for all of our family.  Thank You.

No Place To Sit

This is our little home in Huntsville, Alabama.  We just got rid of our furniture in our Living Room.  I have to admit, having no couch to sit on is quite a bummer.  We will be sitting on the floor for the next few days and on Saturday, we will move back with Jonathan's parents until we leave on Thursday, Sept. 4.  Isaac keeps asking when we will move to Alabama.  He hasn't quite figured out that we are moving to Russia from Alabama, but he will understand soon.  Or then again, he may not, but he is still so excited to be moving to a new home.  We all are and consider ourselves very blessed to be chosen to go to Russia.

Bare Walls

Jonathan just finished taking all of our precious pictures from off of our walls and so our house looks extremely bare and not quite like a home anymore.  It looks sad, but promising since we will be leaving in about a week and a half now.  

We had to box the picture of Jesse and Jonas's baby feet sitting very snugly in Jonathan's one hand and the collection of black and white sleeping baby pictures.  We put away Jonathan's prize Rembrandt of Simeon holding baby Jesus (sadly, not an original) and my picture of Ruth that we bought in Israel that is fashioned entirely out of the words from the book of Judges.  All of our family pictures that were in a row, the first was our family of three, then four, then six, had to be put away (The family picture of 7 never quite made it on the wall).  Then there was The Lord's Prayer that was cross-stitched by Jonathan's sister Katherine; that had to be boxed up as well.  Thankfully, all of Jonathan's many diploma's had never been framed, and so these sit neatly in a folder.....somewhere.  

So these items will go to Jonathan' parent's house and await the day when we need them again.  And when we arrive in Russia, we will start to take more pictures, and even more memories will line our walls in our little apartment.  And someday, hopefully soon, our new house will look like our home.