Staff and Birthday

Mow Khoek Cook and Swine expert; Mow is one of Reams sisters. Mow has been with us since we opened and has been more than faithful. I love Mow's commitment and easily make most valuable employee. Mow is 32, you would not know it from the responsibility she exhibits.
Ky Khon is Ream's uncle on her fathers side. He helped us build, kind of. He cleaned up and looked after the tools. Ky can back to us last year when we really needed a gardener. He has been a good faithful employee who seems to love his job. Ky is 70 something and works pretty hard for his age. I am vary thankful to have his help when few others would not.

Lim is 22 and engaged to be married next year, she has been quiet the blessing when we really needed a competent helper she made all the difference. We had Own, they where almost the same but Own went off to school.
Sadal is 18 and use to teach English at a grade school. It is nice that I can communicate with other people a little more and Ream does not have to be there all the time.
Joe my office assistant is turning 2 he is really a lot of fun right now. He talks gibberish all the time and generally happy. He really tries hard to get us to understand him and when we do not it frustrates him. I think it is a good try hard personality.
Melor turned 14, Lim turned 14, Chow turned 12, Nyng turned 9 and Weed turned 6 this quarter.
So the girls got dressed up.

Nyng had a guest come, the birthday boys invited one of their friends but they didn't show up.
We ate cake and they got a small gift and some money.


It looks like Sam could be Weeds little brother I think they look like twins.
We played games; this time we race from one end of the yard to the other carrying a ball. Odd man means mom has to play. I can't because I have to take the pictures :)

Mom and Melor where in the lead.

Own and Jon

Hua and Darow tried to hard and could never make it across the finish line.

Chi and Channee they got really close but not close enough, they dropped the ball only feet away and had to start over.

Rachana and Wut made it!
Kyo and Nune had points for style but dropped it shortly after the picture.

So that was hard right? Well the winners had to go again with two balls.

Ly and Nyng, Tate and Te-a, Chow and Yong, Tong and Melor


They where absolutely so cute little brother and sister Ly and Nyng took their time and came in first second was Chow and Yong.

So last race this time with a big water balloon.
Nyng and Ly did not make it that far.

Chow and Yong made it all the way. Chow had to stop and laugh a lot but Yong was quite serious and wanted to win which they did.

We also did a game I video taped but sorry no pictures. We put water balloons on the rafters up stairs attached to strings. There where teams of three and the one team member had to sit under another teams balloon. The 2 people left on the team would try with only one hand for each person to pull the string the fastest to break the balloon ever the other team members head.

There where a couple of games and the team with the most dry people on it won. It was a good for team work and a lot of fun to watch.

The unfortunately it was the first game we played after the girls had gotten all their make up put on. Since the littler children could not really compete the teams used them as the people to get wet.

The video is quite fun to watch and one day I will get copy out.

Oh also we hid Frisbees with a prize like an Easter egg. They would rush out the door all over the yard to find the hidden Frisbees.

We had a lot of fun this birthday. I did not even turn the computer on the last 2 days which has been quite relaxing.

We it would not be much of a blog with out the bug update.

Are geckos are hatching, 5 or 6 so far. This was a cricket we caught on the mountain the other day.

Back on the mountain

We had no school this Wednesday so we went back to the mountain.
It is the first time we have been as a whole group. Normally a couple, mostly older boys have school and are unable to go.
This caught my eye. Might make for a cool tattoo. Kind of a little tribal Mike Tyson look.
Vietnam in the Back ground.
Chow,Tong,Yong, Te-a and Tate

Kyo and Jon


Coming back from the quicky mart. One of the fun things about this trip was; a lot of the trees had some sort of fruit on them. The girls where excited to find this vine in one of the fallen walls of the temple.
Weed
Tee

These where a lot of fun this trip. The boys spent a lot of time chasing the girls mostly their caretakers who where completely frightened by them.

Richard Hall brought these fun little rocket balloons over, which was a big hit for the day.

After we had done some cleaning we realized we had become a gecko farm to. There where about a dozen more that ended up breaking.

I asked the children if the wanted eggs with their rice that morning.

I also told the cook we could save the kitchen some money because these where free. No one thought my ideas where any good.

For a people who will eat anything I am finding a lot they will not eat.

Since know one wants to eat hard boiled geckos we put them in a clear box to watch them hatch.

We are about a week from Summer and I can not wait. I think I am more excited than the children. The times when I find free time it seems the children are not available to play with. So having them around more will be good for me.

Ream has been pretty excited with the children's bible studies lately. Every since Pastor Pat and Pastor Barry left the children have been eager to ask questions; and really good ones at that.

Like did God change the snake at the garden of Eden when he was cursed to crawl?

Or how can a woman be made and adulterer through her husbands divorcing her?

How come God blessed men with many wives? How was many wives sinful ? Was the man that Killed Saul cursed if Saul was already dying?

I am really excited with their school scores.

We will be making some changes to the children's schedules for the Summer. Also to the programs we have them do. For a little while we will shift their focus to helping with the pigs.

We are working on keeping more pig this year to raise funds to help combat the rising cost that are effecting the world today. Once the pigs are older and begin to produce we will be able to hire a laborer that will just concentrate on animals.

then we will shift the children back into planting.

This Summer we are planning to take the children to the beach again and they are excited about that. I had so much fun with the children last time finding shells and money.

The beach we go to there is always money floating out there and last time a friend found some gold rings. People don't know and go to the beach with every thing on and lose it.

I will take Richards metal detector this time and see what we can see.

You know; as far as I know there are no teams coming this Summer. You could share in all this fun if you wished. Don Gordon at Calvary Chapel Fallbrook could help you get here.

Mary is trying to put out a small news letter update so you should look for that.

Thank you all for your continued support how ever and what ever you are doing we are thankful for it.

God Bless

Bikes, boys and birds

The two bicycles on the right front are a recent donation to the orphanage than the children really appreciate. Thank you

Play time next door.


Play time at our house involves crocodiles,


Two really cool bird nest
This is the females nest, a little entrance and a place for the eggs to rest. Kind of common I have seen some like these before.
This is the males bachelor pad. A little canopy with a perch underneath and something I have not seen before.
We watched a nature film called EARTH which was pretty cool if you do not pay any attention to the guy ramble on about evolution and 25 million years old.
The animals and their stories are so fascinating you just sit in Aw of Gods creation. It is a must see. The birds in this movie will shock you.

The children are doing really great 15 out of 19 children that get scores in school are top 7 in the class.

#1 in there class is Rachana, Tong
#2 is Darow, Te-a, Tee
#3 is Channee, Kyo, Own
#4 is Chow
#5 is Melor, Nune, Hua, Wut

#7 is Chi, Tate

#15 is Nyng
#16 is Yong
#20 is Lim
#21 is Jon

Birthdays

Melor turned 14
Lim turned 14
Chow turned 11
Nyng turned 9
Weed turned 6