Valentine Cookies for the Native Students...

As you can tell from the photos, the boys and I helped to bake and pack Valentine's cookies for the local college here that only has native students. We, along with the women of M.A.R.C. and Samaritan's Purse, baked & packed and delivered cookies to the local native students. In the top photo, the boys are with Samantha. We had met Samantha the other night at dinner when we went to Bob & Joyce's house, a MARC pilot. She is a native from Hooper Bay, west of the Bearing Sea. She is, at the moment, over to our house visiting us and having dinner and hanging out. She had called me and asked me to pick her up because she wanted to hang out with us. We love talking to her and hearing her stories of her village.

She loves playing with the boys and all of the animals. She had never held a bunny before and loved it. She is a peanut butter lover just like the rest of the Lazaros gang. :-) We just ate Moose steak, cut up on top of rice, for dinner and she kept telling me that it was the best she ever had, even better than her moms...of course she IS a bright student and one of my personal favorites. LOL (that means laughing out loud). :-) She had two big helpings and just made my day!! Her birthday was yesterday, she turned 20. She is teaching Nathaniel some words in her native language. He is loving it!!

Everyone here is doing well. We are loving our time here. One of Scott's projects at the hangar is painting. He is missing MMS' big paint booth. :-) We would love to see M.A.R.C. be blessed with some type of booth for the guys to work in. I was able to take the left over cookies that didn't fit into the bags for the students to the hangar and pass them out to the guys. It was very cute watching their faces light up that A)there were left overs and B)that they were getting them. :-) The were like little kids. :-)

I found out today that my baby sister, Amanda, is having another boy!! That will make 6 boys on my side of the family. No girls. She is due in July and her little guy will be 3 at the end of February. Please keep her in your prayers.

That is about the latest on this end. We would love to hear from you. Take care and God bless you all!!

Lela and boyz~