Casa Vida y Esperanza: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Weekend Fun

Saturday we made pancakes in the house. The girls are great helpers. Lately they have had a lot of fun making different things... anywhere from quesadillas to some type of marshmellow/chocolate/nut creation by Karla.

Keith's parents visted for the weekend, and they took us out for ice cream (or chips) in the plaza. It makes no sense to me that the girls ALWAYS choose chips with chamoy and salsa over ice cream!

It was a great weekend!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Kaleigh LOVES her life!!!

As a 10 month old, what more could you ask for? Kaleigh has kids to watch ALL the time, she has animals to look at year-round, she has 10 girls to keep her occupied 24/7, and she even has 10 hair-stylists. An example of their handiwork is above.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Fun in the House

The girls all got sleeping bags for Christmas, and they were SO excited!!! They reminded us a few times before Christmas that they wanted a "sleeping." Karla was writing in her diary about Christmas and wrote about the "sleepings" they had all gotten.

Lili and Michelle (as well as Karla) are in middle school. You remember that time in your life... It's a time of lots of decisions that affect the futures. We are praying the girls make good choices, especially at school. Both of them are doing really well in school, and Michelle was even second in her class this past quarter.

Thanks to the Indy group for all the new things for the house! The girls favorite game so far is Life. They love it. It will be fun to see them play twister someday...

Here's Blanca playing Operation. Magda and Blanca are going to be adopted by their uncle and aunt probably sometime this summer. We are really excited for them, but also pray that God will bless their last few months here as living with their new family will bring lots of changes for them.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Vacation/Back to School

After two weeks of Christmas break, the girls are back to school. They started this past Monday. We are thankful to be back in the school schedule, but are glad that the vacation went well.

We took a day trip to the zoo in Hermosillo, which is becoming a tradition as they went the past Christmas break. It was a good day and the kids seemed to enjoy it, even though some complained about going.

There were many small animals in glass cases. The kids had fun looking at the lizards, snakes, fish etc., and trying to scare them.

There were a few coyotes that some of the kids started to bark and yell at, they started howling and yelping very loud. It made for a good laugh.
Some of the bigger animals were really fun to watch. Here Karla and Tania are walking through the Safari zone.

Kaleigh enjoyed the day. She would laugh and wave at the animals. Here she Emily, and Poncho enjoy the small pond and waterfall.

After the long afternoon at the zoo...The Golden Arches....McDonald's!!!

They had fun in the playplace, and waited paitently as the McDonald's employee's gave all the adults thier food first, then distributed the 40-some Happy Meals. The toy that came with the meal was very fitting. ANIMALS!!! Hippos, Monkeys, Zebras, Lions...