Yesterday we celebrated Ruby’s birthday. Allison’s sister, Ashley, came to visit for the week and brought pirate costumes with her. So the kids dressed up as pirates and played games all day. Here are a couple of pictures. I didn’t get many good ones, because some of the girls weren’t in the best mood when I was trying to take their picture. (you can click on the pictures to see them larger). Here are two of my favorite ones…. pictures, not kids :)
It’s been raining a lot lately. The ground is supersaturated, so the water just puddles into vast lakes in the yard. The electricity, also, has been going off a lot lately… but only on our street. Our apartment is on the corner of the street, so everything directly across from us has power. A big bummer happened a few days ago. The weed eater/string trimmer/whatever you wanna call it was stolen a few days ago. I’ve only used it about 6 or 7 times, hadn’t even had to put more string on it yet. It was a really nice one, too. A Stihl. Oh well : \
Thanksgiving is this week, so Amanda and Allison went to the store today after they took Ashley to the airport, and bought a turkey and other food to make on Thursday. We’re going to take dinner over to a really poor family that Allison met this week. Mariela, one of the EFP girls, was asked by the janitor at her school if the home that she lived in had a place for a newborn baby. So, Allison went with Mariela to meet the family and see what the best thing to do would be. She said the family has 5 children and they seem to love them, but are just very poor and don’t think that they can provide for another child. The father isn’t able to find a job. The baby was sick and the mother was telling Allison that the doctor had written a prescription for medicine, but it was so expensive and they wouldn’t be able to buy it. It costs about 5 US dollars. So, I think that we are going to try to help them financially so that they can take care of all of their kids.
Everything is going great, we’ll be going home for Christmas. It’s bittersweet. We’re really happy to be able to celebrate Christmas with our families, but we’ll be missing out on celebrating with our family here. So everyone in TN, as if someone from another place reads this, see you soon.
Jenci’s Birthday was Friday, so, we had a big Halloween birthday party. It was a lot of fun and the girls got to try a lot of new things. Like bobbing for apples and relay races. They also tried some candy apples which they all loved. Hope you enjoy the video. We also have a place now on Allison’s website to sign up to receive the Eternal Family Project newsletter in your email, so, if you’re not on EFP’s mailing list, sign up because Kyle is making the new newsletter this week. : )
-Amanda