visit with family

A visit to my sister's house in the central part of the country a couple weeks ago.

We couldn't get out of her house b/c they were working on her road.

Reading to my kids and niece and nephew.

The girls loved playing in my niece's "kitchen".

Giggles and grins.

faces of Corrie cont...

Faces of Corrie at 15 months

other fun pictures

A vacation picture of each child!

Family pictures: round 1

Family pictures: round 2

... and the silly face picture!

Vacation in Thailand!

Sandcastle-building on the beach... a good start to vacation!

The guest house we're at has bikes of all sizes, so we took a family ride.

Here's Anna in her sunhat, incredibly cute as usual!

Corrie thought she was pretty big to have sunglasses like everyone else.

One day when Abigail didn't want to play at the beach,

I found her in our room having a singing party with her babies!

Snapshots

Our handyman mixing concrete for our new basketball goals!

We celebrated Laura's birthday with our favorite Lao teacher,

whose birthday was 5 days later.

Micah at a restaurant on the Mekong River (the other side is Thailand),

where we took our first visitors from home! Will you be next?

Two cutie patooties.

Corrie's Current Look!

This is Corrie's typical look these days;

two short pigtails up top, two wide front teeth in her smile, and two bright eyes full of sparkle and joy!

The girls in our neighbor's hammock. Anna loves it!

It's rainy season now, and that means lots of mud! Jeff was trying to improve

the situation at the end of our driveway, and Corrie had fun playing in the mud too!

Corrie wants to do everything the big(ger) kids do.

Her new thing to imitate is reading books.

A few random pictures

One day after we walked to the minimart and bought chocolate popsicles.

Micah reading to his sisters!

Anna having fun being a kid.

no internet... yet!

To those of you who would be following this blog if it were ever updated, our apologies! We have not yet had internet at home, so our internet access has been very sporadic and very brief.

But, we are hoping and planning to get internet at our house next week, so don't give up yet! Pictures to come!

The editor

The Art Show

The older kids' class had an art show;

below is featured the work of some of my favorite artists!