Geek Squad

One of the teachers at school got a Macbook Air from his brother and had no clue how to work it.  One day when Justin was at the school he took some time to help our friend sort out his machine.

Sunday Sneak Peek

Visitors

Our sweet friends from the big city are here visiting this weekend.  After a several days of winter relapse we were so glad that the weather righted itself just in time for their visit.  

We showed them all of our favorite sights.

This is not a posed picture.  I love it when these two remember that they like each other!

Noah is such a boy!  He found a stick and some rope.  So he used the rope to tie one of his knives (of the several that he carries around with him) to the end.  Then he went spear fishing.

We all hopped along the volcanic rocks and looked for critters in the little pools of water.

Our friends really seemed to enjoy our little town.  In fact, they especially liked a warm spicy pickled cabbage dish that is popular here.  I hate it.  So we laughed and told them that liking that dish was probably proof of their calling to this region!

Cultural Children's Games

This week I have had so much fun teaching the elementary students games from around the world.  We have been playing cultural children's games the last week of each month this semester and I love it.  

I don't usually teach in Lucy's class.  But I help her English teacher do these games.

I love these monkeys... even though I am pretty sure they are going to send me to an early grave!

Adding to our Numbers

Our precious friends down the coast had their baby a few days ago.  As soon as we got the chance the girls and I hopped in the car and made a little road trip to meet our newest teammate!

Don't worry, we were at a stoplight!

We LOVE this little princess!

I promise this is a tiny newborn baby.  Well, I guess she's not so tiny.  She was almost 10 pounds!  She is so perfect and pretty and full of newborn baby goodness!

I think we'll keep her!!

Teach Her to Cook

So that you can sleep in.  Later on, you can spend the afternoon chatting over tea with the neighbors.  Then you can go get a haircut.  When all the goofing off is over with, you can come home to a perfect roast beef dinner and fancy layered dessert.

Seriously, I know it is painful to cook with little kids.  But, if you hit the kid jackpot like I did, it just might pay off in the end!

My Callie is awesome!!  She rocked it on Saturday!  She got a new cookbook for her birthday.  Planned the menu, made the grocery list, and cooked the entire meal all by herself.  I wasn't even home (Justin was).

Perfect roast beef and glazed carrots

a layered fruit and custard dessert that had us all licking our bowls

So proud of my girl!

Sunday Sneak Peek: Daddyback Riding

First, Lucy was the horse trainer and baby was the rider.
Lucy put Daddyhorse through all his paces.

Shhhh!  Don't tell him!  I'm going to hop on, too!

I'm sure he didn't notice!