Father's Day Weekend

The weekend of Father's day we had some pretty fun things take place.  On Friday the International School hosted the first ever Father Daughter Dance in honor of Father's day.  Ev and several of her girl friends got to dress up and dance with their daddies and each other.  Then on Saturday our family and one of our foreign families that lives in our apartment complex went to see Finding Dory in the movie theater in our complex!  We had no idea that you could rent out the theater and watch with whom ever you want to.  We will definitely do that again. 

Later on Saturday Todd participated in a baseball game at his school.  It was the students against the foreigners.  It has been a long time since he was healthy and could play ball and I admit I was concerned he was going to do something to himself, but he pitched for 3 innings and he even hit a home run!  It was pretty fun for the kids to watch him in the game.  They even let our kids hit between innings.  Ev got out there in her new dress like she always did when she was little. :)  

Sunday we celebrated Todd with cinnamon rolls for breakfast and chili for lunch. On Sunday afternoon Todd and the kids have been playing a World Series between him and the kids.  He let them win (although they don't know it) and they were so excited to beat their dad.  

Baseball Season

One big thing that we don't have the opportunity to participate in is sports.  As our house gladly welcomed the beginning of the baseball season there was some sadness too since our kids can't play on a team.  Some of you may not know but we usually try to plan our times in America around Baseball season so the kids can play on teams.  It is hard that they only get to be a part of a team once every 3-4 years.

So for now they will watch the Rangers on T.V., play with Todd when they can, and play with some other home school kids in our city once a week as Todd is leading up a sports time each week.   

2014 September - December

Todd helps out a baseball team at a elementary school near our house.  It is the only school that as a baseball program!  The closest team happens to be a few hours away in a town where our people group is.  Elijah got to join this team and Todd helped coach the team from our city.  The kids don't get to play games very often and even though Elijah was younger than everyone by two years, he was welcomed to participate.  Both Todd and Elijah loved it.  

Fall and Spring semester the kids attended a Art class where they got to do a lot of fun things.  

The kids taught some of our neighbors how to play baseball.

Evangelia turned 8 and we had a Frozen Birthday Party.  The kids made their own pizzas, did a scavenger hunt to the lyrics of the songs from Frozen, played some other games, had Elsa cake and watched Frozen.

We hosted Thanksgiving again this year with some friends.  The kids had their Thankful trees and during the month leading up to Thanksgiving wrote what they were thankful for.  We made Barbie some Thanksgiving food out of salt dough and the kids dressed up as Indians and a Pilgrim. 

Can't believe it has been 4 years since Ian entered our family.

                         

                       

We started off the Advent Season with our Jesse Tree, praying for people groups, and lighting the Advent candles.  The kids got a great surprise in the middle of the month when Aunt Kara and Uncle Josh came to visit us.  The kids got a indoor/outdoor basketball goal to help them during the winter months when they can't play outside.