Six Weeks in Pictures

Well, it's been a while, but now that we're going home we'll try to keep this updated more often. Our last post covered our activities over the holidays, but here's what we've been doing since then:

Matthew and Steven both really enjoyed their trips to the museum with their grandparents. Steven in particular is going through a dinosaur-loving phase of his life, but Matthew enjoys them as well and loved the skeletons.

You can just hear him thinking "I think this thing could eat me ... where's Grandma?"


The giant shark - this thing could obviously eat all four of them without problem.

Playing with a favorite toy at Grandpa and Grandma's house:

Dancing with Grandma and cousin Aubrey:

No, Aunt Kellie, THIS is how you eat with chopsticks!

Steven's been going to preschool every afternoon, which has been great. Not only for us getting a bit of free time, but also for him to be in an environment with other kids and more structure than he usually gets at home. Here he is getting out of school:

Bobbie and her sisters and cousin Beth:

One of the best things about being here is the ability to go outside in the winter! I took Matthew and Steven to the park a week or so ago, and we had lots of fun.




Oh, and also in the last six weeks was Bobbie's ... um ... 23rd birthday! Yay for her!

Steven celebrates Mommy blowing out the candles like she's just won the World Cup. Matthew stares stoically.

Sneaky boy! Not to mention sneaky Mommy, who should have been spanking you instead of taking your picture!

Our farewell dinner (and last steak for a while) :*(

Matthew is here to say "Goodbye," and also that our next post will come at you from R-land again!

Random Photos from B

More pictures I've been meaning to put up (mostly of our time in the mountains over Christmas).

Post-Holiday Post

We're going to try something here. Last time we didn't post for a while we just posted a bunch of pictures with the next post and no one complained. Let's experiment by trying that again:

It occurs to me that perhaps the reason no one complained is that there is no way to complain. Without a comment function, the blog offers no recourse for disappointed readers to voice their concerns! Tyranny! We must revol ... message interrupted. This blog is now the possession of The Wandering Family™, and as such we are happy to announce that everything is right with the world and especially this page.

Ahem. So, the picture above is my brother S, in case you didn't recognize him. Along with his wife J (I'm not sure on the protocol on naming them, so I won't), he came into town for a few weeks, which we thoroughly enjoyed. One of the best things about this time in the US has been visiting with family. Speaking of which ...

My parents were also in town for the past couple of months. We went down and lived with them for a short part of that time, but had to say goodbye to them today as they flew back to Bolivia.

We also tried to get a family picture with them, but this is just a preview, as most of you will be getting our new card in the mail in the next few weeks, so I won't post the final picture here. This one will have to do in the meantime.

We did manage one with the whole family (minus my brother Gabriel). Look how cute we all are!

One of the fun things that Bobbie's family does is to rent a cabin in the mountains between Christmas and New Year's, a tradition that had started to fall by the wayside with everyone scattered around the world. However, with us and her twin sister Kellie back, they decided to do it again this year, and we had a great time.

Christmas presents were enjoyed by all.

As was the snow. Well, maybe I should say it was enjoyed by "most," as we see enough of it at home. We did have a good time playing in it, though.

And played indoor games as well, such as "shoot all the cans off the table with a rubber band."

The cabin did offer a spectacular view:

Surprisingly, kids and all, we managed a pretty good family photo with just one try:

We also went to a wedding since last we posted. Congratulations, Daniel and Jessica!








So, I'll leave you with that one of the boys, their cousins, and their great grandmother, who came in from South Carolina for a visit. More ... well, I'm not even going to promise a timeline any more. More whenever we have enough pictures and time to make it doable.