Danli

So I have been trying for two days to get these photos up, and this is what I have for the four hours of sitting here in the cafe. I hope you all like them. The first part is general friends and the worksite, and then the second part is photo shoots with the girls in the neighborhood. They all wanted to be my models this time and we had a blast taking photos everyday. I hope you fall in love with them like I have.

This is Bella Vista, and Roger ( who we call the hulk, for his massive arms) working on the school.





Joel worked with us last year, and this year helped me fix the roof I fell through.
Pastor Efrain has been a good friend of mine and my family for years now.




Bob is the volunteer missionary that I was studying with.
Jared is the muscle man on site that is in love with Denise. Denise, this is for you.



This little boy came in sick and we helped him
Loreli had a broken arm and the team paid for the cast.




Juan Carlos is our foreman for the school in Danli, and his son Santiago is my shadow when I am on site.

Now start the model shots. Ivania is best friends with Jocelyn (further below) and has been friends with me a few years now. She is the one that laughs the hardest in the group of girls, but she is also the most jealous. I would know her better if she didnt pout every time I tool someone else's photo. I love her though. This year I got to meet her whole family and go to the house a few times.

Indira is Ivania's younger sister and probably the best model I have had in years. She is so cute and loves to pose. It was her idea to let her hair down in the photos and it was a good idea.

Karla is the older sister and fairly shy, but I still got a fe good shots of her...

Katarin is the youngest of the five sisters, and we told her to stick out her tongue for one photo and it ended up coming out in almost all of them.

The whole family....

Jocelyn has been my girl in Bella Vista for years now. we met when she was seven. I was walking the town taking photos and she was hanging on an iron gate. I asked her for her photo and she told me I could take it. I then invited her to the chruch for the kids function adn we have been best friends ever since. Every time I show up, she is there. She is the one that introduced me to Ivania and her family.

Wendy's little sister has got the greatest eyes I have ever seen.

Vanessa lives in front of the church in Bella Vista Danli and has been my friend since she was 10. She saw me taking photos of the other little girls and wanted her own photos. These were taken on her roof.

Danli was the first place I ever visited in Honduras when I came down in 2001 on Work and Witness. When I was there I met a 13 year old girl named Isabella. We spoke nothing of the same language, but we became friends. I went to visit her every year after until she disappeared one day. Her grandmother told be that she had moved up the mountain and I went looking for her, but without success. It had been 3 years since I last saw her and this year she was back with her grandmother, and with her son of one year. His name is Luis. I was so happy to see her and to meet her little boy.

Some of you know Karen Lopez from Hector and Rosemery's ministry with the orphans. Well Karen just had her first baby on October 25, 2007. Here he is, Luis Miguel. At three weeks old, the boy weighs something like 10 pounds. He is going to be huge!

That is it for now. I will try to get photos of the eye clinic up soon. Have a great day all of you, and email me....