Merry Christmas 2010!

Blast from the Past!

I found these in an old email account I never check. We went to a museum in Tigre, Bs As. All I remember is it was freezing.
The kids were so little and cute!

The new me!

Toti took the pictures for me!
I like the new color and the bangs remind me of what I looked like as a kid. Any comments, ideas, suggestions?

Halloween!

I personally don't like Halloween, I don't feel that its good for children to be so aware of the dark side of the spirit world. This blog was meant as a log of activities they do and these are a couple of the activities they did for their school. I think it would be cool if we had a dress up party for the kids since the costumes is what really draws their attention. Any ideas anyone?

30 years ago I made my mommy very happy

My birthday presents:

Mexican Independence day!

Some pictures of our day in Ajusco celebrating the Independence day.

School celebration!

Totis Drawings

Today Toti came into the room announcing he drew a part pizza/part rocket ant. Very Funny!

Where would I be without him?

I love them so much!

Toti's First Day of School

Some pictures of Totis first day of school.
He was very brave going into the school all by himself. The other 3 had to wait till Tuesday to enroll. They had a little ceremony to celebrate the beginning of the new school year and he sang the national anthem with his hand over his heart like a little mexican... so cute!

Update!

Lots of things have happened since my last post. We left Saltillo the 12th of July, which means we lived in Saltillo for exactly 11 months to the day.
The trip from Saltillo to Mexico City was very exciting as usual. First we got pulled over by the police at 4 30 in the morning, half an hour later the car overheated leaving us stranded in the middle of nowhere which made me freak out (as usual). Next we got stuck in traffic somewhere in Queretaro making our planned 9 or 10 hour trip into a 13 hour one. The batteries in the camera were dead (as usual) so we couldn't get any pictures of the trip but that's ok cause we all just looked tired.
We spent 2 days with the adoptive grandparents which the kids loved cause they got more attention in those 2 days than they had in the last month.
Thursday the 15th we left to Acapulco, dropped the kids off with their dad and we went to look for a place to stay. The Lord supplied a very nice hotel room with air con! We spent the next 10 days witnessing and fund raising. It was great to see old friends and make new ones. The first time we went out to provision a meal we met a very sweet lady who knows mom from when they were here and she offered to give us one meal every day that we were there.
The rest of the trip was full of little miracles and the normal ups and downs that only happen to us, haha!
Andy and I came back to Mex City the 25th of July, and we've been job hunting ever since. Its been fun to have to write up our C Vs , go for interviews etc. He was hired as an English teacher and started work last Monday. The Lord also gave us a really cute place to live in. It's small but very cozy and the best part of it all is that we live on the top floor of a Family home so the kids can still get fellowship and have fun with other kids.
I am in the process of enrolling them in a school that is only 2 blocks away, public but PTL, you can't win'em all. The goal is to get some stable form of income and then see what private school we can afford. Private schools here are incredibly expensive so we have to take it one step at a time.
If all goes as planned (which it probably won't, so I should prepare another plan just in case) we should be able to go pick up the kids tomorrow afternoon. I've missed them so so much.
Here are a few pictures of our home, sweet home!

Our "room".


The "Living room" and you can see the closet and loft.


The "kitchen/dining room/ Andy's office".


The bathroom which also has a small little balcony.


The kids room.


Another angle of the kids room with view of the closet.


Our patio/balcony.


The View (WTC in the way back).


Love you all! Come visit sometime...

Fathers Day

The kids had a special event in school for Fathers Day, unfortunately we were late and Sammy had a hard time forgiving us.

Andy tries to get Sammy to smile...



Sammy gets offended...



Final result!!(the closest we could get to a nice smile)

Spelling Bees

The kids participated in their schools' Spelling Bees. Both Aitana and Jazmin won first place and Sammy would have to but due to a mistake on the teachers part and her pronunciation he won third place. The director and teacher apologized to him afterward. They all did very well in studying for it. I didn't have the camera with me for Jazmin's.





These next 2 weeks will be the final exams and we could all use your prayers.

Old Folks Home

Flor met the director of an old folks home in Ramos Arizpe while out witnessing and she invited us to go sing with the kids for all the little abuelitos in the home. The kids made 35 cups of jell-o (I helped with that) and they practiced a couple songs to sing for them. They sang "Queremos presntarte a ti", "La Bamba" and "Dona Josefina".
After singing and acting out their songs they passed out Jesus posters and jell-o to all the old folks. I did the prayer with all of them and Flor read some messages from the book "From Jesus with Love" and " Vislumbres del Cielo".Then we all went around talking to them and spending time with them. Some of the old ladies were crying when we left. It was very touching!