Just 23!

I turned 23 on Christmas Eve, I know I'm getting old, haha! And my precious husband took me out to dinner while Papa watched Joshua and Caleb. If I've said it before I'll say it again, We couldn't have gotten a better babysitter. The boys didn't even know we were gone, but being the old married couple we are instead going to the theatre to watch a movie we decided to come on home and watch one on our own TV! I have to pinch myself sometimes when I realize I have three boys, make that 4, and living in the situation I am living all by the age of 23. The Father has blessed me!

Family Christmas Photo

With Tony, Josh's dad, here visiting we were able to get a family picture in front of our Christmas Tree but ofcourse you can't see our Christmas Tree now that our family is growing, so there's another picture of our Christmas Tree. We did all we could to make our home feel like Christmas and ofcourse our tree was a great way to share about the Son. Sad to say but this was our first Christmas actually having to buy Christmas presents for our kids because usually they already get way too many from family. We really enjoyed buying them gifts though. This was definitely the beginning of different Christmas's for us but still celebrated for the same Reason!

Christmas Tree and Joshua

It cost a little more here,($13 for one strand of lights!), but we have a fake Christmas tree and have got to share the story through it to several cousins! From the star (virgin birth), tree (cross), lights (light of world), and gifts (greatest gift of all). I thought about it and cant remember sharing these things in the states but want to encourage you to do so.
Joshua also has taken advantage of the many visitors to our house lately by sharing the full story with his teacher last week as he walked her through his picture "book".

Merry but not too "Gay"

Not that i am feeling insecure, but the other day i was in line paying my water bill talking to a guy. The conversation seemed to be normal and we parted ways. Well after i payed my bill i saw him waiting on me outside. He appologized before he asked,(usually not a good sign), if i was gay! It caught me a little off guard and i told him i was married with children. But it did get me thinking if my accent is that bad or if the shirt i was wearing said more than i wanted!

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!