Kirsten's 5th grade class made puppets for puppet ministry.
Today they presented at the elementary chapel.
Kirsten's 5th grade class made puppets for puppet ministry.
Today they presented at the elementary chapel.
Kurt arrived safely back in Davao early Wednesday morning our time (for Michiganders it would've been Tuesday evening).
The kids are thrilled to have their Daddy back home.
He has jumped right back into his work and language learning schedule which has helped him overcome jetlag quickly!
Thanks for all your prayers for his safety while traveling!
Every year the school has a Carnival.
Each grade runs a game booth.
Kirsten explaining how her grades game works.
Ben showing me tickets he has for playing games!
The 8th graders run a "Jail Booth" where people can sign other people up to be thrown in jail!
Kurt was one of the parents recruited to be jail door keeper.
Sometimes the job is rough with unwilling victims having to be wrestled into jail!
Being the sweet Mom I am I threw my daughter in jail for 5 minutes!!
Kurt guarding his own daughter in the jail!
The Carnival is a lot of fun and the proceeds go to charity. I think this year's proceeds are either helping the families in the refugee camps around here because of the fighting on Mindanao Island, or, helping out families left homeless from recent mudslides around here.
Decorating the tree
The kids talked me into putting our Christmas decorations up this past weekend.
Lots of people here have their decorations up September 1! That's also when the stores and malls start playing Christmas music.
We set our tree up in an alcove of the hallway where babygates protect it from the pulling hands of James!
Nothing like setting up decorations while sweating from the heat (95 with high humidity!)
Kirsten and Ben with James after the tree is decorated
Mikayla is on the girl's Middle School Basketball team. Her uniform number is 12.
They played a scrimmage against the girls High School team the other night. It was a good first game for them, even if the high schoolers won. Many of the girls on the Middle School team have not played before.
Mikayla wasn't sure at first when she joined the team if she'd like it, but now that she is gaining more basketball skills she is enjoying playing.
Prayer time at beginning of game
Running down the court
Game action