Mother and Son Christmas Baking

This is mine and Joshua's Christmas Baking Master Piece. Joshua loves helping me cook. It was so much fun to make this Christmas Tradition together. And believe it or not we made some pretty good cookies to be in a foreign country!

Where's the White Kid?

Can you find Joshua? These are a couple of Joshua's school trips. I don't know what kinda parents he has (ha ha). Do you see any other kids with their hands in their pants. Don't think so! With that said, our kids are in a different world than the national kids here. They were born to be wild. We never see kids running around in resteraunts but our boys never sit down. Get the picture? Their daddy loves it!

Not too long ago we took a day to go to the park. This was our first time to go to this park. We had seen it driving by and it was quite a large park in the middle of such a big city. But it was just as we should've expected, nothing is ever as you expect here. There were big blow-ups there so we let them play and they were having a good ole time when the power cut off and the blow ups went flat. After about three times of having to pull them out quickly because they blow ups were going flat, we decided to move on to something else. We let them ride little battery cars, it was a mistake to put them on one together, they weren't on 2 minutes when Joshua slung Caleb off when going around a curve. We couldn't help but laugh but Caleb was not happy to say the least. Poor Jedidiah just sat in his seat and looked at his mesquito net the whole time but he was a trooper. The boys had a great time though, but they were exausted. I caught them both knocked out in their hats. What precious boys!

Basketball Update

For those of you interested in b-ball over here i will give you a quick run down. First of all the team i have been playing for and coaching played our toughest game of the year last friday and fell behind by 15 early. I was a little late b/c i was still at my other practice. we came back and played the best we have together and ended up winning by 10 or so. Although with about 5 min left i had to leave the game with a sprained ankle. So i have been a little hobbled this week.
The high school varsity team i am coaching has finished our first week and may it through tryouts successfully. i hate having to make cuts but really saw the Lrd at work through the process. i am real excited about the guys on the team as we have a mixture of ages and nationalities. (few seniors, few juniors, and few sophs) (4 americans, 4 koreans, and 4 Indos) We are young but pretty athletic and big for over here. I hear that we should compete for the city championship! (which is a pretty big deal considering this is a city of 5 mil. people) I guess we will see b/c right now we are still a long way off. Ill keep you posted.

Something about that Name

Well the rainy season is upon us....and i mean upon us always, everyday, in every way. Kinda like the great philosopher Forest Gump described it as side ways rain, staight down rain, big rain, small rain, stinging rain, misty rain, and even rain that seems to rise from the ground! We are getting used to it though and the positive side is that the rain knocks the pollution out of the air so my contacts dont burn my eyes any more. The flip side is with a country with no dryers it is a little tough to dry clothes or sleep in a damp bed. But it could be worse (like if we were clemson fans!)
So to the point of my story....The other day i was coming out of an office in the middle of a normal mansoon when i saw a homeless lately under the awning staying dry. I smiled and spoke a greeting and then saw her face. It looked as though she had been beat badly and there was no return smile. My heart ached as i got in my car and prayed for her. The Lrd moved me to get back out there and give her the equivilant of $100 for her. I told her that JC told me to give her a gift. She was a little taken by that and kinda shook her head. I then offered the money in a closed fist (not wanting her to see the amount) and she refused. I insisted it was not from me but from JC. She again resisted and so i placed the money in her bag and went to my car. She followed me to the car in the mansoon and through the $ in my car and returned.
I have never had anyone refuse money here before for any reason. Esp a homeless person whom me meet everyday. All i can think is that the name with which it was given was not worth the gift for her. I pry earnestly that she would recieve the greatest gift of all!

A Trip to a Safari

We took a trip to a Safari Zoo when my mom and nana came. It was a really cool experience. Not sure how safe, ha ha, but really neat! We drove through the "safari" and afterwards went to the "petting zoo". In America you might think of a petting zoo having goats, sheep, pigs, etc. Well here at this petting zoo there were tigers, lions, chimpanzees, quite a different story. Oh don't worry the tiger was on a chain, but was also trying to bite Josh's arm. There's no such thing as liability here, ha ha! It was ofcourse a blast for the boys! Having the zebras eat out of there hand and hearing the lions roar. What a life we live!

The Trip from Mom and Nana

We had the privilage of having my mom and nana here a few weeks ago. They came to see our new addition, Jedidiah, and the rest of us, ha ha. It was an absolutely incredible time! We kept them busy but they did great! It was a great gift from the Father that they were able to come. This is one of the first resteraunts we took them to. We definitely spoiled with the nicer resteraunts, but I have to say they also ate their share of fried rice. Love you mom and nana!!