Merry Christmas!

Saiah enjoying some corn:

Which dropped shortly thereafter - ah, the drama that has come to this house with #2!


November brought Sai's 1st bday, here's Lij trying to show the bday plates ;)

A birthday brownie which Sai enjoyed the most of all of us as the video shows...


Balloon fun:


A few more pix from the fateful day when Sai got into a can of paint!


Fall time means pool-time here!


Better to be up on the porch to keep the cows from drinking the pool & kids feet out of cow poo!


A sweaty but great Thanksgiving with friends (complete with 2 turkeys shipped in)- Sai could only eat ice chips as he was teething...!


More to come soon, just trying to catch up from the last few months...hope everyone's had a great time celebrating Christmas with family & friends!

Away for awhile...

So in May we had to leave our home due to unrest in the area. We spent about 7 weeks "on the road," sleeping in about 9 different beds...however we did have some pretty memorable moments while our fam was nomadic.

We had already planned a week in Vietnam with Mom & Dad D before we went mobile. We spent one day in an amusement park there in Saigon. The gardens were beautiful so we tried to get family pix, even with the boys' hair pasted to their heads in sweat :)


Lij & Dad enjoying the bumper cars:

As we were heading out of the park, there was a guy making amazing figurines from playdough. We're always impressed at the Vietnamese ability for great detail!

Mom & Dad were so great to be with the boys while we went on a date one afternoon. We ended up at the tallest building in Vietnam with a 360 view of Saigon!

And at the bottom of that huge building was a sign we just couldn't pass up...

So fun to run into Uncle Tim & Aunt Jody in the airport as we were leaving Vietnam!

We got back to Indo & had a couple day team retreat & then our yearly field conference. Here's 3 of our team's 6 boys enjoying the McD's slide:

Lazy afternoon at a playground after lots of field meetings...

After the conference we took the weekend to play - beginning with a minibus ride to grab lunch at a yummy Italian restaurant:

One of many great things about Indo is their love of babies, especially white ones. We were freed up to manage the other 3 boys while our babies were loved on :)

Even had time to snap a few pix of our 3 little men!

Next day was a water park that Lij could really enjoy for the 1st time:


Wasn't long afterwards, we boarded yet another plane & Lij found the best hiding spot ever...

Priceless video :)

And our drive back home over not-yet paved roads during nap time:

Poor Saiah had fallen completely over by the end!

Being back home brought new fun like Saiah's 1st bike ride in his own seat:




Amazingly in the last week a "county fair" type thing has sprung up...


Our date this past week included a campfire, s'mores & 5 curious boys:


These guys had never tried marshmallows before, it was hilarious watching them try to eat them w/o getting sticky! Notice the one boy who only has 1 soccer cleat on, he was sharing the other one with his friend so they would each be able to play...

And finally random fun with a new puzzle from Nenek & Kakek:

Blogging?

Well, wasn't sure when we'd have the time to start blogging again. Our lives have seemed to go in fast forward with getting back to Indo & loving on our 2 boys!

Laying on the bed together - Isaiah looks so surprised & Lij so sly...wonder if there was pinching involved!

Celebrating Lij's 2 & 1/2 bday with brownies & 2.5 in colored crystals :)

Reading together in Lij's little playhouse:

Another surprised Isaiah pix, seeing a theme here...

Love these guys!

The joys of a crinkly bag of bread :)

Just hanging out

Lij enjoying the small hammock we found in Vietnam last year with his best friend Neva...

Lij eyeing those cookies!

Happy V Day E

August Daze...

Pix in & around our home:

Here's a pix right outside the front of our home with one of our favorite neighbor guys letting Jah see what it's like up on his "becek" (only taxi of sorts in town)

E-pod ;)


We love that we didn't have to stage this one!

2 of our neighborhood princesses dropped by later on ;)

Lij wearing the same nightshirt Elissa wore as a child!

There's one little girl named Ipa who Lij especially enjoys having around - here she is making a tower from our clothespins:


Making our own fun while playing after dinner:

The day before fasting month began we joined many of our neighbors who went for a picnic at the beach:

Swimming after the picnic:

August brought the beginnings of our renovations - first, clearing the land:

Next, a sand party was in order...

Filling in the foundation

Wall going up

Beginnings of our roof

Can't forget the mishap during the renovations that caused a bit of a setback - a wall fell down resulting in part of our roof caving in!

Thankfully this mishap (otherwise known to Lij as the Fun Fountain) didn't seem to disturb his bucket bath ;)



Mid-August we took the wkend to celebrate our 7th anniversary out of Aceh...here's a pool shot (guys weren't too keen on the cold water)

We got one of the top floors for a fun view...

And here's Lij practicing pushing his little bro around before he makes his appearance :)

As of the posting of this, Lil D still hasn't made his exit so we have a little time to catchup on our blogging!