Our local park

We've been greatly blessed to have this park only minutes away from where we're staying. We take Liam over to get some fresh air, and let him run around chasing the ducks. He points and yells and says "du du". and as all little boys do, he likes to throw rocks into the pond. When we went over yesterday we found the pond had frozen over! We knew it had been cold, but didn't realize it had been THAT cold. It was funny to watch the ducks walking across the pond, slipping and sliding. In the last picture you can see some 'belgian' houses in the background.

Special Times

Something that has been a huge blessing while we've been here is special time Liam has got to spend with our dear friends. One of Matthew's long time friends is here with us, what an amazing blessing for all of us. It is neat to see how God is placing people in Liam's life to love on him and disciple him.

Our daily lives

This is where we are staying in Brussels Belgium, The OM Zav center. A modest building with simple rooms, that has quickly become our home while we are here. Being the only 'family' here with a young one we are blessed to be in the only 'apartment' with our own bathroom and kitchenet. (Being pregnant and having to use the bathroom several times a night, I am very VERY thankful for this blessing.)
Everyday with have classes and lectures, so far they have all been wonderful! Matthew and I are both learning a lot, every thing from language learning techniques to church planting, to conflict resolution. We're looking forward to the rest of this month.
The evenings are usually spent here in the library, where we get good internet connection. we're usually talking to different people, working on assignments, we've even watched an episode of the office hanging out in the library. It is the happening place to be :) Since Liam goes down around 7:30, matthew and I hang out here until we're ready for bed. It really has been a great place of fellowship.

Brussels

Since we have arrived here in Belgium, we have mostly been busy with different lectures, group discussions and such, but we had some free time thursday afternoon, and so we took a little adventure and went to visit Brussels central, it was absolutely beautiful, especially with the evening sun hitting all that gold. It was amazing to think that some or most of these buildings have been standing for about 400 years!

Our flight to belgium!!

We made it! We are in belgium and settling in nicely. Liam slept through the night last night!! Praise God :) Our flight was only 7 1/2 hours and we all got about 2 hours sleep... the rest of the flight was spent walking up and down the isles and trying to amuse Liam with various things. He really did LOVE the plane, especially the first 20 minutes or so, lots of new things to look at, new sounds, people... It was exciting to watch and experience the awe along with him. The center that we're staying at is only minutes from the airport and so we see alot of air planes. I'm expecting "Air Plane" to be one of his next words. Here are a couple of pictures from our trip over....

After what seemed like hours of screaming... sleeping baby :)