Christmas in Haiti

"Joyeux Noel" from the TR crew!!! ;-)

Craft activities this afternoon...

This is for those of you who are longing for the warmth and sunshine!!! :-)

Baking Day!

We did some special baking for Christmas, and the children were thrilled to help! :)

iPod to the rescue "Now where was that recipe I saw?" 

Sunset over the Caribbean Sea

Breakfast time!

just a random shot of breakfast time at our house! :-) Happy Friday!

S'mores!

For Michael's birthday we made a fire and roasted marshmallows for s'mores! Dads and Cleons were here and brought marshmallows down from the States.

Sticky faces and fingers, smelling of smoke - the children loved it!!!

They're begging to do it again!!!! :-)

Thanksgiving Day Pictures

Finally here are some pictures from Thanksgiving Day... We enjoyed spending the day with the crew from Allegre. A late morning brunch started the day off, and then we had our traditional turkey dinner in the evening. It was a fun day...

The children enjoyed a treasure hunt...

...and games... (poor Alex suffered a bike accident and injured his nose!)

Enjoying the rewards of the treasure hunt...

And a pinata that a family from the States sent down...

The children were thrilled! It's kind of getting to be a yearly tradition to do a pinata... and when it looks like the pinata will give out before everyone gets a fair chance to swing at it, well... it's duct tape to the rescue!!! :-)

There was singing in the unfinished addition 

where the acoustics are really good...

 ...lots of interesting conversation...

And what day would be complete without a few stories and laughs from "The Fishwrapper"???(They are the MOST READ books around here when we have guests!!! I like to tease that I'm going to start charging rent on 'em!!! :-) 

And the perfect ending to a wonderful day...

Just love these sunsets around here!!!

Back again!

3 weeks... does that break a record for me? I'm sorry, I know how disappointing it is to check a blog when the author never posts!!!

It's been a very busy 3 weeks for us... I was in the States for 10 days, and came back just a couple days before Thanksgiving. So that meant a dive into Thanksgiving preparations as soon as I got back... I also came back from the States with a partially torn ligament in my knee, so I'm getting a taste of managing my household on crutches or from the recliner - not my idea of fun... especially when the generator battery goes dead, and you have to get it going again!

I wanted to post pictures from Thanksgiving Day, but Blogger was giving fits about it, so I'll have to try again later...

Some comments overheard from Weston...

In talking to Loretta about her impending visit to the States he wondered, "You're going to come back?? And when you come back I'm going to do school with you?" (He hears the older siblings talking about school when Lor comes back.)

One day when he was playing nearby, he was talking half to himself and half to me. "God made Weston for Mommy... and I'll give you starbursts!" (He really has this thing about wanting to give special things to the people he loves!!! :-)

Later...