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Here are pictures of the tiny place we are living. It is a one bedroom and it is about a 20x20 room. We are very crammed and all we do it step on each other. It is very hard getting over jet lag in this tiny place. When one of us is awake we are all awake.

We landed in London!

We landed in London. Got off the plane and knew that we had to find all of our luggage. We found where our luggage was and Mike creatively stacked our 10 bags plus our few things that we carried on onto two carts. We got to the customs counter and we showed them our passports and their really wasn’t any issues there. Then we went and found our luggage. Now we were really hungry and I wanted to find food but we were not sure how far we were going to have to travel to get there (we had 2 hours). We also had learned that because the kids were walking that it takes a lot longer to get places because of their little legs and them getting distracted by all of the people and scenery. We started walking but the kids were not being cooperative and wanted to be carried. That was really challenging since we had to push these carts. It would have been one thing if we would have just pushed the carts on a level surface but we had to go from level to level through these tunnels (Mike sometimes had to duck with Sarah on his shoulders it was so low) pushing and pulling these carts. So we put the kids on our shoulders pushing these carts that you could not see over with one hand hoping that people would just get out of your way. We had many comments about how we pack light. J Little did they know that I was moving here and what I had on those two carts was all I had to live with and have lived with for a month. My first observation of the London airport was that there wasn’t stores and dining places wall to wall. There was lots of long hallways with little to no advertising. They would have little areas with an information desk, maybe a restaurant or two, some bathrooms, car rentals, and maybe a gift shop. We walked down lots of hallways or mostly ramps. We got to where Mike was told that our bus would come and we just prayed that we would be able to find it. There was another family there (she was very anxious and was very glad to see another military family) that it was obvious by all of the luggage that they were going the same direction. Their sponsor met them at the airport. While we are waiting for the bus Mike and Sarah left to go find some lunch while Cory and I sat with the luggage. There was this older gentleman in a wheelchair surrounded by 3 police men (the police wear these black and white checked hats with a brim). I could not really tell what they were doing with him other than he kept opening and closing this briefcase and one of the officers was on and off the phone. Then they would pull each other aside and talk about the situation. This made me a little nervous. Then they moved closer and by the door. I could hear then that they were asking this man about the prescription drugs that he had in his briefcase. Then there were some other authorities that came and they were discussing the situation and eventually they took him out. Not sure what that was all about but a little scary. I definitely felt like a homeless person walking through the airport. There was not a lot of windows and natural lighting in the whole building and we really stuck out with our mounds of luggage. The bus came and there was another gentleman and his wife that was riding the bus home from a day trip from London. They were very helpful. We found out later that they do Military Ministry for Campus Crusade for Christ. I have since emailed her and have gotten some wisdom from them. How awesome the hand of God putting Christians around us from the beginning. I met another Christian today and we also ran into a guy that rented one of our houses in Great Falls. It truly is a small world.

Sorry no pictures. There were signs everywhere saying "No Photography!"

Prayer for Andrew Brown

Hey blog friends!
I saw this bulletin on My Space from Suzanne Brown. Will you please join me in prayer for Andrew?

Hello everyone, I am writing to ask you all to pray for our little Andrew. On Monday, the docs were having trouble pulling blood from his central line. They decided that we should return Wednesday to have an echocardiogram done. Dr. Garrington called today and told us that Andrew has a blood clot in his superior vena cava. That is one of the veins that brings blood to the heart. We are going to Denver tomorrow morning to have a catheter put in a muscle in his leg, so that we can give him twice daily injections of a anticoagulant at home for as long as it takes for the clot to go away. He told me today that he isn't scared of doing this as long as he doesn't have to feel the needle two times every day. All of this makes me think back to a few days ago when we were in Texas at Grandma Busker's (Jeff's Grandma) funeral. We were on our way to the cemetary and Andrew was laying sideways in the backseat. He suddenly said look mom, a heart in the sky. I looked up and there was a perfect heart drawn in the clouds. I truly believe that the heart was from Grandma Busker sending her love to all of us, but I am beginning to think that maybe Andrew was the one who picked it out of the sky for a reason. There is a picture of the heart that Andrew saw that day in my March 2009 album. Please pray for our little boy, that God will dissolve this clot and that he won't need these injections for long! I know that God is AWESOME and he has healed Andrew once. I am praying for another healing, and I am asking you to pray for that too.
Love to all of you, Suzanne

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