The day after skiing we had a couple friends over.
That's Luda and Lena, the orphans Denise's family was hosting for a month.
They played outside, freaked out over the mud on their new clothes, hung out in Evie's room, and experienced their first video game. Mostly they tried to communicate via Google Translate on a pair of smartphones.
Evie really grew to love them!
Sunday, January 6th, was our first Mexico/L.A. mission trip meeting after church. It's been four years since Terry's last mission trip and is time for another. This time I get to go along! He's done the trip twice, two weeks long both times, and I've always had babies to stay behind with. Noah and Evie are coming too! Noah is going to be 14 so he's plenty old enough. Evie will be 11 and as long as I'm along, she can go too. There's a group of about 30 going! It's a much younger group than last year so it'll definitely be a lot different, but we're praying for a great, faith-building experience.
After we meeting Evie and I finally went to visit my friend Katie and her baby Sylie.
I hadn't been to see her since the day Terry got back from Utah back in August!
The next day, Monday the 7th, we started school up again.
I thought Trouncer's expression as he waited for lunch was funny.
I accidentally surprised Evie and Samuel practicing a dance for the party she was planning that evening. Her reaction was so funny when she saw me.
Dance party!
Dancing quickly turned into wrestling.
I occasionally take selfies at work to prove I do go there sometimes (two or three times a month). 😁 This from January 10th.
A few days later on the 11th, we went to the Swim Center with Denise, her girls, and the orphans. Here's Lena and Zhenia.
Luda, Evie, and Zoe.
The next night we went for a quick dinner date with Paul and Jana while Jack hung out with our kids at the house. We miss them! We love them!
Next day after church we and Terry's family went to Pizza Ranch to celebrate Jerry's birthday. They have a new game room now instead of a basketball court.
Samuel and Ezra won a ball.
He was so excited.
Shari and Sarah.
Grace, Noah, Jack, Terry, and the littles.
After we got home Evie and I went to Denise's to say goodbye to the orphans.
They had to leave the next day. It was so sad!
The next night Evie insisted we do a science experiment that she had seen from a video Shari had posted on my facebook.
The following morning she insisted on another one - adding dish soap to milk with food coloring mixed in - and all the coloring swirled around on their own.
The remnants of Nathan's Christmas snow pile. It won't be gone until June.
Egg shell dissolved! It was like a bouncy ball...that smelled like vinegar. The kids loved it.
Next up Evie begged to make slime. So we did it.
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