Climbing PhuKradeung Mountain

Our family and my two sisters, brother in-law, neice, and two nephews

took a vacation together in Thailand recently. We went to

PhuKradeung National Park and climbed the tall mountain there,

stayed on top 2 nights and then hiked back down.

It took the 12 of us 6 hrs to get up; it was quite steep!

We actually hired two porters to carry a hammock up

for the kids to take turns, which was a good idea,

especially since my neice was sick.
Porters carry all the luggage up as well.

View from the top; we started near that little lake you can see 'way down below!
The kids were amazing!

Corrie cont...

These are pictures from our vacation week at the end of July.

2 years old and loving life!

A Snapshot of Corrie

From January to June below: more to follow!

Watching cows on the road from the safety of our gate.

Fun in Daddy's motorbike helmet.

Daddy is the best!

Night-night with her baby dolls (in Micah's bed).

Proud of the Easter egg she painted

Neighbor Kids

Getting chalked up, just for fun.

Always something new to do!

Micah's impromtu birthday party with 10+ neighbor kids.

Playing musical chairs

Life Snapshots

Our own in-house Mary Poppins. In her "carpetbag", Anna has her own version of: Jane and Michael's advertisement, the mirror Mary brought, a measuring tape (and I think something else I can't remember).

Then she came "floating" down the stairs with her umbrella. The kids watched the movie several times last month and have been playing ever since (one kid Mary, one kid Bert, one kid Jane or Michael.)

Another popular game of the girls' lately is being my househelper.

Here Corrie and Anna are going to clean my bathroom (much more fun in
thispart of the world, as it involves hosing down the whole bathroom).

Abbi and Corrie doing dishes together and singing away.

Abigail created a system of roads for toy vehicles out of books,

all over the downstairs. (This is about half of it)