Monday, August 6, 2018

Busy weekends

We've had some busy weekends around here lately.  We took our young adults from church to Dieng (a city up in the mountains that was so cold!), Paisley and I went to Mangunang (a traditional Indonesian village), and celebrated Paisley's birthday.  Fun times!  I'll start with our trip to Dieng.  Not too many pictures, but we had a great time . . . and got to wear jackets!!

We met at McDonalds to have a quick breakfast and to wait for the bus.


There are lots of photo opportunities up the mountain.  The kids wanted pictures with this owl.




 After about 10 seconds, Paisley started asking for them to take the owl off.  They couldn't hear her and just kept letting people take pictures.

It cost about 50 cents to have your picture taken.  The guy in the fur hat is the one who runs the stand and takes the money.  He asked for a picture with Paisley.  I tried to make him pay for it, but he just laughed.  Hey, if I pay him to take pictures of my kid, he should pay me to take pictures of him, right??


 Michael decided to take the kids for ride on some little 4-wheelers.  His and Truett's didn't work, so he upgraded to a dirt bike.  Oh how the kids loved this!!!  When they rode with me on the 4-wheeler, I let them steer.  When they rode with Michael on the dirt bike, they got to go up the hills.  What fun!

 We also visited a temple.


The kids got spoiled.

Friday, July 20, 2018

First Day of School and Another Award

1st and 2nd grade, here we come!

 


 
 
 
 
 
 

 All smiles on the way to school
 

Testing out options on my new phone.

And all smiles at the end of the day as we pick up the kids

On Thursday afternoon, we got an email from the kids' school telling us that we were invited to an assembly on Friday morning.  They were having an award ceremony for the second semester of LAST school year.  We were invited because we have a student getting an award, but we were not told what the award was.  How exciting!

All of the elementary school kids were at the assembly.


Paisley's friend, Sofia, has the look on her face that represents how we were all feeling.
 





And our very own Truett was given the English Excellence Award!  I guess we should have figured that.


I like the way Truett's friend next to him is looking at him.





 Look at Truett signing "I love you" to us!