In January, we welcomed Jenny and Erik and their family from Bolivia. They helped out with the medial campaign in February and the cousins spent lots of time playing at Nana and Papa's house. We even got a couple good family pictures!
Monday, June 24, 2013
Christmas 2012 - Top 20 Pictures
December was a month filled with wonderful family time. We celebrated an early Christmas with Josh's family, who had to leave for the US for the funeral of a dear friend. Then, we were blessed by a visit from my parents. We spent a lovely Christmas day together with my sister and her family (even though I was SICK with a stomach bug) and then took several days of family vacation and a trip up river to Kumanii. Here are my Top 20 pictures from December.
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| The whole family at Kumanii |
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| Decorating the Christmas tree |
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| 4 wheeling with Daddy |
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| A game of Life with Nyanya |
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| Crossing the extension bridge to our hotel |
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| My dad and my husband preaching together |
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| Babu and Enoch reading a book |
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| Exploring an old train tunnel |
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| 2 peas in a pod |
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| Cousins |
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| Nyanya and the grandkids with her homemade quilts |
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| Making a gingerbread house with Nyanya |
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| Singing Christmas carols around the piano with Nyanya |
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| My 3 sweet girls in their Christmas shirts |
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| Giving Nana her Christmas gift |
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| Nyanya ziplining! |
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| Mommy and Enoch after a swim |
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| Bird watching with Nyanya |
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| Getting ready to zipline with Dad |
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| On the canoe to Kumanii |
October
Actually, seeing as I have some fun pictures from October, I think I'll start with October. To start out the month of October, we were blessed by a visit from long time college friends, Jeri and Craig Ford, and their family. We enjoyed 10 days of activities, including a trip to the Papallacta Hot Springs, late night conversations about family and missions, a trip to Volcan Park (a kiddy amusement park here), and lots of fun and games with the kids.
Towards the end of October, we celebrated 2 special occasions. First, Eliana's 6th birthday! She wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up right now, so we had a paleontologist party - a scavenger hunt for plastic dinosaur skeletons, made binoculars, drew pictographs on a wall, and had an excavation for chicken bones in mud/plaster. I made her an exploding volcano cake. It was a lot of fun!
At the very end of October, we had a fall festival with our English fellowship Praise and Potluck, made up of the different English speaking members of Operation Ecuador. Uncle Rusty put together a fantastic box maze from the leftover boxes of their container, and the kids got to dress up and do a room to room trick-or-treat.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Back on the Blogger Wagon Again
So school is out... summer vacation is upon us. And on top of taking a trip to Bolivia, a graduate class, my husband being gone for 2 weeks to the US, and taking care of 4 kids and the house, my goal is to start blogging again. Inspired by my sister - I plan to do a blog post for every month since November (my last blog post) in order to hit the highlights of family life/ministry, and then to try to do a blog post for every month here on out. If anyone is still reading.... enjoy!
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