June 2014 post. Part I

I know these are very out of place.

 But....I found a couple draft post I never finished from the beginning of June. Back In Canada. Figured I might as well post them. A lot of my postings is so we can look back on the happenings in our life and remember forgotten memories.

The end of May beginning of June we took a  short family trip In between sharing in Churches about the vision of the Cambodia team.

We spent some time in Missoula MT and Sandpoint Idaho, We drank in the beauty of the mountains, lakes, trees, green grass, wild life, shopping malls, and coffee shops.

JC riding a moose.  ok she is just sitting on it. 

B on the moose.

Myself and my 2 lovely Children. 

My Sweet little girl.

Mr. Handsome himself.

Home at last.

A little glimpse into our life the last while. We moved into our new home on July 18, 2014. We have lived out of suitcases since December 20th 2013. ( we still are living out of our bags, we need to find storage drawers for our clothes yet.) It feels so good to be HOME!  We are so thankful to God for directing us to this place. We have wonderful Landlords who can speak English. And are very friendly and helpful when we have questions. 

We also still have our housekeeper for 2 more weeks. She has helped us a lot in getting things for our house and directing us on where the markets and good places to buy things. 

Also we are very excited our Kids wonderful Nanny is arriving the middle of this month.  

                             My 3 favorite people in the whole wide world... Cooling down with ice-pops.                                        

These  Elephants are in the lobby at the hotel where we attend church the last few Sundays. The Kids absolutely love them. This morning they were not squirting the water like normal. They were a bit concerned they were broken. After church they were working again.

We Received our very first piece of mail when we moved to our new home. On July 18, 2014.
For those of you that have lived or live overseas. You know the joy of receiving mail!










                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
           

One day in July we just took the whole day to spend time with the kids. (They were feeling very neglected with all the moving and changes of life.) We took them to and air conditioned mall where they had a kids play place.They spent 4.5 hours playing and making new friends. B was so tired when we left. He also kept saying he was super hungry. for those of you that know him well, that's a famous saying of his.:) 

JC earned her purple Bible she picked out last March. She had a nail biting problem, But she worked really hard, with her little brothers help. They both received there very first Bible. Every Evening JC asks her Dad to read something from her Bible to her. Her favorite passage right now is Philippians. (she thinks its a funny name.)

JC can't wait till she can read, she loves to look at books and pretend to read to her brother.

They very often play school together, With JC as the teacher and B as the student. Some times the parents get roped into being students too.

 For my Birthday, We walked to Lucky's supermarket to get a few groceries and we had Ice cream at a little ice cream shop in the mall. It was a special treat to enjoy some cold creamy ice cream.
My family also let me sleep in a bit and had donuts for breakfast, (I think the kids enjoyed the treat the most.) They also bought me some beautiful nice smelling flowers. I never did one lick of homework all day! It was a relaxing day.

 

Until Next time....... The Whitman Family.

Picture post....

Sorry I've neglected updating this Blog.

 I had high hopes of keeping regular up dates on here.

Language studies and being a mother to 2 busy little ones is a lot of work.  

So I will leave you with lots of pictures. 

If you have questions please feel free to ask.

 I will answer them as soon as can. 

Blessings to each one who reads this. 

 

                                And I will leave you with one last picture....

THE END.

CAMBODIA

We arrived in Cambodia Saturday evening June 14, 2014 around 10:00 pm. With every piece of our checked in luggage arriving with us. Dewey's (someone who traveled with us) 2 bags he checked did not arrive with him due to a very close connecting  flight he had in the States. But the 2 bags arrived the next day to the Okay guest house were we stayed the first 2 nights after arriving in Cambodia.

                                                  Phnom Penh Cambodia International Airport.
                                     (this picture was taken on a later date, as we flew in after dark.)

After we arrived and got our Visa's and picked up our luggage. We piled 10 suitcases plus all our backpacks and carry on bags into 4 tuk-tuks and we took a ride across the city to the Okay Guest house. The kids were hyper when we arrived and were jumping from bed to bed. the time difference was not helping with going right to sleep as we switched 13 hours ahead of our home country time.

The children LOVED their very first tuk-tuk ride.
They both had big grins on their faces the whole time.






Sunday was spend walking around the river front and napping. Monday we packed everything back into 4 tuk-tuks and headed across town gain to a house that we rented for 2 months. Another foreign family lives in, but they are back in North America for the 2 months. So we feel very blessed  to have something like this to live in for now.

                                                                

Some of  the different foods we've had since we are here. The dish on the left is yummy. You take one lettuce leaf, piece of chicken, tomato and cucumber and dip it in a sauce of pepper salt and lime juice.
Right picture is of a broth with rice, chicken, and lots of other unidentified things. Including  a lump of dried blood.
                                                                                                                         

         A busy intersection we watched for a while, while sipping yummy iced coffee in a air conditioned cafe.

Some low class housing in the city we drove by a few times. A lot of homes have a small business out front. they may sell hot food, fruit, meat, or motorbike parts,  

                                         Yes we had to go in and see what a Cambodian Superstore was all about.  Its mainly imported foods from different country's that Cambodia does not produce. This is where you can buy 2 liters of cow milk for $4.30.

Our family on the tuk-tuk. 

 

J could not wait to make new friends. She has figured out ways to communicate through pointing and a few words she does know already. These are some friends she meet at church on Sunday. the girl closes to her is a orphan child. The other 3 have Christian parents .

We have left Canada Thursday morning Boarded the plane that took us to Chicago where we meet up with 2 others, so we can all travel together. We arrived in Doha, Qatar. around 6:00 GMT. It was a 13hr and 45 minute flight that went by very fast. (It helps to be sleep deprived before you flight a long flight.)  ;) We board our Flight to Phenom Phen Cambodia at 8:00 in the morning. I do believe its a 12 hour flight.  Thank you to all who have been praying for us.  Next update will be from Cambodia Lord willing.

Ready to fly with all our belongings. 

life over the last month + ...

This family is feeling a lot like gypsy's. We have been traveling around so much lately, But we have enjoyed seeing friends and family and making lots of memories.
We left  EBI on March 14, 2014 and headed out to South Carolina and North Carolina. Where we visited friends and took Different courses at Equip International,

This girl celebrated her 5th birthday. She really enjoys building with legos.  And does very well with following directions in building things.

Brother and Sister Best of friends!

We also spent some time in Georgia. We have many great memories in the sunny south. I felt very blessed to be able to spend time with 2 very dear ladies who have been an great encouragement to me over the last 10 years. 

Kids enjoying ice cream cones on a hot evening. They have many fun memories of time spent with these children,  We even got to eat fresh strawberries. 

Time was short in Virginia with some team members, we got to meet 2 adorable little guys,   J and B (and there parents) could not get enough of the 2 little guys. 

Friends are some of life's greatest blessings.

The children got to meet Great-grandma for the very first time. This dear lady is very special. So glad we were able to spend time with her. She took us to see the Atlantic ocean the children saw it for the very first time in real life,

Enjoying The beauty of Gods creation.

Buried in the sand trying to keep warm after wiping out in the cold ocean water. 

The kids LOVED the huge sand box.

 They built sand castles and had a lot of fun.

 In Pennsylvania the kids had fun getting rides in there cousins cart with the pony pulling them around.

On our way up to Ontario we stopped to see Niagara Falls. 

The kids didn't like the walking in the cold very much. I guess we lived in the south long enough our blood is to thin. We had to bring out the winter clothes this last week. 

Enjoying Niagara Falls. 

Our life for the next 2-3 weeks will be traveling back to Alberta. Then getting ready to fly out to Cambodia on June 12,2014.  Thank you everyone who has been praying for us. God has been guiding us along this Journey, and we want to give him praise and honor for everything.