Monday, September 28, 2009

Beautiful places and interesting.....

Here are a few of the places that we have seen in the last little bit



Temple architecture all hand painted

The gardians of the temple roof tops

This rock was apparently to big for the truck! Rob saw this on a trip. The rock had landed on the truck and completely crushed the back end!

This was also on that same trip, it had rained some and so the road that they were traveling turned into a nice mud slide! The trip should have taken a couple hours turned into 10 as they had to push the van out several times!

Again some more mud!



But as you can see the rain has some benefits! The rice fields will produce a harvest because of it!

More to come later.... having trouble with internet today! See you soon!

Elias Birthday

Elias decided he wanted to do his 5th birthday at KFC
which is a special treat to start with! So he choose two special friends to bring.

Here is our goofy group minus two sets of parents

They had eaten there sandwiches and were working on the icecream!


As you can see it was well enjoyed!


We came back to the house after for cake and presents


We had a special friend over for dinner and had an ironman cake

gladiators

Its amazing what you can do with some skateboard padding and a couple of bicycle helmets!


Look at those muscles!


Do I look cool dad?


The three musketeers


Looking tough


Working on his real muscles

Sunday, September 27, 2009

catching up! :0)

Ok, so yesI've gotten very behind! Again my apologies! Since going month by month will be impossible ill summerize. Lets see over the last few months we have traveled, done lots of homework, traveled a little more, gone to school, made friends, gotten colds, found out we were pregnant, found out we were having a little girl, made and are making travel plans to have the baby, went to school some more, made lots of language mistakes, went to school, played with friends, make more language mistakes and are now back into another semester of school to try to fix the language mistakes that we continue to make! :0) If school and mistakes seems to be previlant thats because they are! We learn new ways of saying thing and grammer to back it up only to mix it up and somehow say the oposite of what we mean sometimes!
The boys are doing great with the school preschool/kindergarden here and we are looking at maybe moving them into an all chinese speaking school after the new year. This will hopefully help them learn to speak better and also allow them to get to meet more kids.
Rob has classes at the university here and also has a tutor that he works with a few days a week. He has writting, reading and spoken classes at the university and the tutor to help with the extra questions that come and to be able to see and do things that a classroom setting wouldnt be able to provide.
I have a private tutor that either comes to the house or we go out to different places for classes. My classes range from working though a work book to going to the postoffice to learn the words and objects that I need for daily life!
The pictures in the next few blogs are some of the things we've gotten to see and do or just some of the funny things that happened over the last few months! Thanks for hanging in there with us!