Happy Birthday Lucas!

Hey there brother! I hope that you are having a great birthday. So the big 3 0 !!! Unbelivable!

Three decades of life. So are we considered adults now that we are thirty-somethings?

I really do hope that you are doing something special and that you are with people that make you smile. What birthday cake did you have?

Have a happy happy happy birthday, brother!

Happy Birthday Emily!

Happy birthday sis’!

Who remembers this one?

She sneaks around the house
As quiet as a mouse
Who is this curly haired
girl we talk about?
Emily, Emily, Ema – L Y

We have known you as Wumwy, one of the little girls, Emmer Jane, and Auntie Em’. Now that we are all growed up it is a privileged that I can also call you friend.

My Eight Year Old Boy

Yesterday I took the kids on our first Fun FridayField trip for a photo hunt up on the Cristo mountain top. I got some great shots of Timothy. I think that eight year old boys are some of my most favorite people in the world.

More slide shows to come of the wonders the kids captured.

Art and a Big Bag from Afar

Friday at school we did an art project of making Me Posters. Here are some shots of the finished pieces:

Raimy's (the whole family is included in this poster)

Timothy's (note the 3-D fold out feature)

Gabrielle's (figure lifting her arms is Gabrielle having fun with her friends)

In the orphanage kitchen I saw this huge bag of flour and couldn't miss the photo op. Notice that it comes from Cargill. The cook said that the flour makes the best bread.

(Detail of the bag and my shoe - hee hee hee)

February Fun

Is it only the 7th? Only one week has passed in February? Amazing!

Our week has been packed: our kids were in a wedding at church, we had a youth retreat at a resort, and we started school. The wedding was beautiful. An Englishman married a Bolivian. Her name is Wendy and his Peter (like the Peter Pan story). The youth retreat was great. I spent most of my time with our kids. But we had fun hanging out with the youth when they were not in a session. The day after we got back we were all very sunburned but we got started with school. It feels good to be back at it.

I wanted to get these pictures up so you could see them. Enjoy!