One month and counting!

In four weeks we will be on a plane to Accra, Ghana!

The next few week we will definitely be busy as we wrap up things in Evanston and prepare for our trip. We went to the travel clinic this morning to get our Yellow Fever and Polio booster shots. The nurses at the travel clinic feel obliged to tell you the absolute worst case possibilities. Such as not wearing flip-flops near bodies of water because parasites will burrow into your skin and turn into worms that will come out of other orfices. GROSS!! Thanks for the warning!

Sam's graduation from Kellogg School of Management is on Saturday - we can't believe it is here already! Our parents and Loralynne's brother are arriving in Chicago today and we have a full schedule during the next three days. It is very bittersweet to graduate and see a lot of our friends move to other cities, but now we have friends around the world that we can go visit.

Loralynne is transitioning from being fulltime at her job to becoming an independent event planner. Her company has agreed to contract her to plan their ongoing events when we return from Africa. This is an answer to prayers, but also a stressful transition - not to mention that she is planning their activities at the largest annual industry conference which ends two days before we leave.

We have a lot of very exciting things happening in the next few weeks. Thank you to everyone for your ongoing prayers and words of encouragement. We really appreciate it!