Christmas continues. . .
We celebrated Christmas a little longer this year. . . thankful for friends and open doors!
Category Archives: chinese friends
Christmas Happenings!!
We are so thankful for how well everything has gone this past week! We know we can make plans, but it’s Dad who carries them out! Haley shared the Christmas story with 4 classes at Kylie and Caden’s preschool, then we had different parties with friends and neighbors on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We actually […]
Fun day in the countryside!
David and a friend took a trip to the countryside on Thursday and discovered a like-minded body meets in this small town! It’s been set up since 1978! The leader wasn’t there that day, and when David called him he was actually in GL (our city)! Funny huh? He invited us to bring the whole […]
Family Trip to the Countryside
Beware! Picture overload! During one of David’s trips to the countryside, he learned of a special festival celebrated by the AM people. We decided to take the whole family and experience/learn more about this culture that we are so intrigued by! We left on a Sunday and returned home on Friday. It.was.a.long.week. It would have […]
Colt and David’s trip to the countryside
David and Colt took a trip to the countryside this past week. On Tuesday they set out on a 5 hour bus ride to an area that is pretty much 100% AM people. David had met a guy there last year during a short trip (before we moved down here), and they had kept in […]
Some pics from the kids’ teachers
Kylie and Caden’s teachers send me pics and videos of the kids everyday. I love it! The kids love it too. . . We are thankful for this school! Our kids are learning lots, playing lots, and getting loved on lots!
Christmas Parties 2 and 3!
Our second Christmas party we hosted at our house and invited 7 of our neighbor friends with kids. I was nervous because we were told everyone would accept your invitation in front of your face to be polite, but you didn’t really know if they would come! So I didn’t really know how much to […]
Christmas Parties at Colt’s School
Our first Christmas party opportunity was at Colt’s school. When I first mentioned it to the head teacher, it seemed to me that it would be a “no go.” But, when we met with our small group we all lifted up the time that I would AGAIN ask them. . . and we went ahead […]
What a mess. . .
These are some sweet friends that I happened to make one day. I met Lulu (left) while she worked at the management office for our apartment complex. Since I could understand her pretty easily (some people have thick accents, speak super quickly/unclearly) I asked if she could do lunch sometime. She brought Echo (middle). . […]
Algae and Tea
A couple of weeks ago, I went out for a “girls’ night.” Whoo hoo! I went with my good friend Jean, and some other girls. We did a little window shopping, then met her mom who treated us all to dinner. You can see in the last picture that it was quite a feast! We […]