It never ceases to amaze me how one month just flows into another. I mean it's already the middle of March. I can remember exactly what we were doing a year ago at this time but it seems like an eternity since then also!
This past week has been Spring break for us. We took a few days and went to the capital city. Got some work done on our car, specifically the AC fixed. It was nice to drive home with the AC. We went out to eat and to a pool. The big hit was getting fresh fruits and veggies though. We brought back as much as we could. Now our fridge is jammed full of carrots, apples, pineapples, mangoes, green peppers... We can't get some of those things here where we live unless they're in season so we stock up when we can. This is the first time we've had mangoes this year, they'll start to ripen up this way in a month or so. I can't explain the feeling of eating some delicious fruit with yogurt and granola! Anyways, I think you get the idea. Right now we don't have any supply buyers on the field due to some medical issues. We have to do all our shopping and stocking up on supplies. We or rather Pete tries to go once a month and buys meat and other things in a town about an hour away. He went this past week and they had gotten an new shipment of things from the states. There are several expat mining companies here so several stores stock things from the states. We were able to get a few special treats in time for my birthday! This morning we enjoyed fresh blueberry muffins (with frozen blueberries) there was also cheese that we got. Anyways, lest you think all we do is buy, stock and think about food, that's not the case. This just happened to be a bumper week for enjoying special things. We've had a great week as a family. We were able to attach a child seat to my bike for Ian and yesterday we all took a nice bike ride to the river. This afternoon the dorm kids will return and we will begin our last quarter of the year.
Please pray specifically for our mission school next year. We are in (desperate) need of high school teachers. If you are interested or know of anyone who might be send us an email. I'll attach some recent pictures as well.
A summary of the pictures:
Ian with his Guinean soccer shoes, he's on his 2nd pair already!
Valentine cookies
Aidan is now burning the trash and enjoying making fires!
A tea set Eli got from one of our dorm daughters for her birthday.
Making pizza pockets...we had all of our dormers families over for a pizza night...there were 22 adults and 3 babies.
A sword fighter already at the age of 14 months.
Our veggies.
Our climber...he can climb into his booster seat and wants to climb on anything he can. We're not so into it:)
Working on a puzzle ball Eli got from Grammie and Grandpa for her birthday.
Cute Ian.
