Off to France

Ciao my friends! we're off tomorrow morning. don't know if i'll get a chance to post while we are there, but i know i'll post tons of pictures when we get back. I'm not even taking my phone so if you need to get me, or want to send me a friendly note, just email Brian. He'll have his computer there.

For some reason i have been plagued with an abnormal level of anxiety about this trip (mainly the getting there) I'm not the teenager i was. I would have been dreaming of this trip for weeks. I think it is just the pregnancy and the exhaustion i've been feeling that is keeping me from really getting as excited as i'd hoped to be the night before we left. Please pray that i chose to let Jesus be my rock and keep turning my mind to him even at 3am when Lucy is crying and my stomach is killing me. I really want to learn to let the Holy Spirit control me even when i am not physically or emotionally well. Pray with me about this.

We leave tomorrow morning to drive to DC for our 4pm flight to Paris, huge layover before we fly to Montpellier and we'll be back the 15th of April. Kim will have the key to our place while we're gone - so if i've borrowed something from you and forgot about it or someone needs a season of Gilmore's (Erin's DVD's so ask her first) that is being held hostage in my apartment just call Kim.

see ya soon! bye

Double Trouble

Lucy has not been herself since i took her for her shots on Thursday last week. She had a little cold when we went but, she just got worse and worse. She spend most this weekend looking like this. This is a bib i made for Chloe back in November and Lucy wasn't really cooperating with trying it on for me. Monday night was the kicker. We were up every 2 hrs with her and she wouldn't even nurse she would just cry unless she was sitting in front of her video. Even then she wasn't happy. She wasn't eating and i was just freaking out that something, having to do with the shots, was terribly wrong with her. I woke up Tuesday feeling like i had been rolled out of my pasta machine so Brian called the doctor for me and took her. Sure enough she has an ear infection in BOTH ears! I'm so glad i didn't go, they had to get all that wax out of her ears and Brian said she was screaming the whole time.

We are leaving for France Monday and i was just panicked about taking a sick baby on that plane! Since she came home from the doctor and is on her antibiotic she has been back to good ol smily Lucy. Man i missed this kid. Here she is dancing to the Gilmore Girls ending tune - or more like doing some aerobics. She loooves to dance to anything, even when my phone rings.



Please pray for our trip. I am still nervous about getting on the plane with her over night. I am so excited to go to France to see my in-laws but its the getting there that i'm nervous about. Pray that i will have Peace that night and be kind to Brian. When i don't get sleep i turn to a crazy woman and i'm soo mean. Don't know how that man stays with me day after day!

leaving in 5 days

Please keep us in your prayers. Just writing to say good-bye. Man I'm going to miss you! Thanks so much for all your support in every way. I love you!

please write to us!

Joy & Brian Morykon
c/o Cuirim Outreach
PO Box 1748
Nogales, AZ 85628

Flagler Beach

So here we are at a tiny internet cafe in Flagler Beach. Brian and I are staying at the White Orchid Inn & Spa in the Flamingo room. It is right next to the heated mineral pool! AHHH it's soo nice. Breakfast was amazing in the great dining room facing the ocean. It's probably the nices place we've ever stayed.

Lucy is with mom at Will's house. I miss her already. She has been such a trooper on this trip. She has such a great personality. Just a totally chill baby. Love that girl. She did great on the plane and she just doesn't stop smiling even at strangers.

The wedding was beatiful and perfect. They are on their honey moon on a cruise. It was one of the craziest days ever but worth every minute. Brian sang his song and did wonderful and we had no rain just a great breezy day. We got to spend some time with our friends Andrew and Kristen yesterday. That was so amazing. We love hanging out with them. Every time i'm with them i actually think i could handle Florida weather just to move down here and be close to them. This visit was no different. We had an amazing time of prayer before we left and got on our way to Flagler Beach just 2 hrs away from Lakeland where Will lives.

Brian is waiting for me at the table with our smoothie so i'll go but just wanted to share our great adventures with you.