CHRIST-mas, Birthday and Church play

Sam has more candy at least he is sharing with Joseph.
Help with a necklace.
Spinning a top.

Duck Curry is every ones favorite birthday meal.
Chan Chow plays Joseph.
Channee plays the King.
Come and register for the census.

Joseph and Marry with 3 wise men.
They get to do their harvest dance.
Birthday cake shaped like Angkor Wat.
Sam gets his Birthday gift from his cousin.

Ly, Yong, Jon, On and Channee celebrate their birthday this quarter.

Weed whacks the pinata.
Hua has his turn.
Jon is next.
Christmas went really well I would say.
I went out the day before and topped one of our eucalyptus trees marked for removal.
We built a little frame for it to stand up and trimmed it to give it some kind of shape.
We blew up balloons with candy in side them to make like Christmas balls. We also made the tinfoil candy wraps again. It was real fun looking with sparkle and color.
The night before we set it all up after the children where a sleep.
So at 5 am we could hear them at the glass of the locked dinning room door talking and giggling. It was real tough for them to wait, they had to feed the animals and clean up first. At 6 am they where ready all sitting in a circle. Our 3 little ones received theirs first and in no order after that.
Each present was a new outfit and accessories, with a small toy or game. Each child ran a little more than five dollars.
The children where so giddy the night before. Some where saying they where nervous because they did not know what to expect. The children from last year told them do not worry you will like it. There where lots of cute things being said amongst the children.
So after that they eat and ran to church. Some of our children where in the nativity play and all our young ones preformed their harvest dance which was good timing because the harvest is in mid-swing.
After that we played some games and started the birthday parties for a couple of the children. We played bingo, and had a pinata.
For lunch they eat their favorite duck curry and eat cake. Their was much excitement to be had, they where so wired from sweets they made it all the way through until evening.
We have letters coming with us when we come. And they are wonderful, these are the best letters yet. They have been keeping a dairy to help their writing skills and it looks like it is working.
I hope you all enjoy you Christ-mas as we have.

CHRIST-mas

Our 2 foot window to the world. This has been a big blessing.
Our second CHRIST-mas tree, this one is a eucalyptus branch. We used balloons with candy inside and tinfoil with candy inside to decorate the tree.


Tee looks over his watch.
Yong in the middle waits for his gift. Darow is enjoying his.
Sam asked the whole week about his birthday and was hardly containable. We had to put together a gift for him at the last minute because we kind of forgot about him. We plan on getting his gifts in the states but did not think about his excitement for the day. So all the toys where things he had not played with for a while and he was just as excited.
Big boy toys. They each got a little radio and a game plus the new out fit.
It worked out that each gift was around $5 dollars for the out fit accessories and a toy. Pretty good.




Sam has a mouth full of candy every time we turned around. To many people to ask when mom say no.
VeChi and Channee smiles
Chan Chow
A little shock? They never celebrated
CHRIST-mas like this before. Most of the time it was not celebrated at all.