It was fun to reminisce with the kids about last year at Christmas when we went back to the States and surprised everyone. Little Caden was only 3, but he remembers hiding in the box and jumping out to surprise Mamaw Betty It’s also hard to believe it’s already been a year! How time flies! […]
We surprised our families and ourselves by making the last minute decision to go back to the States for Christmas. The question was brought up many times knowing that we missed our families and all of David’s brothers were getting together for the first time in 4 years, but we decided against it since our […]
At our last Christmas party, a local friend we invited was also a Sister. She asked if she could borrow the skit I wrote out and the costumes for the Christmas Story because she wanted to do it with her 3rd grade class. She sent me pictures yesterday, and it turns out they did it […]
So, I have never made a gingerbread house from scratch until last week. I guess the kits were always available and affordable in the States. Believe me, I would have taken a kit over this task any day Some people love baking. I’m not one of those people. BUT, my friends wanted to do it, […]
We celebrated Christmas a little longer this year. . . thankful for friends and open doors!
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 […]
Let me just say the teachers did an amazing job decorating all around the school. There were balloons EVERYWHERE. . . it looked really fun! All of the classes at Colt’s school did a little dancing performance (they are big on dance and music in this country – but it’s happy not-so-flashy dancing, so it’s […]
We are learning so much about Christmas in Asia. . . the trees are coming out on Christmas day and THEN the Christmas music and greeting really pick up Our local friends must have thought we were crazy putting our tree up at the end of November! But now we can leave it up for. […]
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 […]
