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DAY 37: Oct. 9, 2011 – Last day with the toddlers. We gave the house moms the day off! it was crayzay
DAY 35: Oct. 7, 2011 – Movie night with the kids! Popcorn, cake, and koolaid. Oh and Megamind!
DAY 34: Oct. 6, 2011 – Went to the school and read and fed the kids. Afterwards had a picnic on top of this amazing mountain.
DAY 33: Oct. 5, 2011 – Skyped home and saw all my favorite faces π
DAY 32: Oct. 4, 2011 – Army men came to help Pastor Larry (red shirt), they wanted a pic with the 'americans'
also, the orphanage ran out of diapers, Plan B, sewing cloth diapers…they can't use safety pins so we had to sew a cord through the top.
DAY 30: Oct. 2, 2011 – Took the older boys to the pool after church.
DAY 29: Oct. 1, 2011 – Left at 5A to run/walk in the 5K Fr.Nery Memorial Run π
DAY 28: Sept. 29, 2011 – We made No-Bake-Cookies for the talent show that night!!! It was amazing!!
…and Rosalie lost her tooth!
DAY 27: Sept. 29, 2011 – Went to a public school in town to read and feed the kids.
DAY 25: Sept. 27, 2011 – Went to Jodie's Ministry to paint her house and help with the backyard. (picture won't upload right now, stay tuned)
DAY 24: Sept. 26, 2011 – The highlight of our mornings: when the toddlers pass the dining hall on their way to preschool. π Today they wore their uniforms.
DAY 23: Sept. 25, 2011 – Sunday morning Hospital visit. We handed out food and prayed over people, very emotional, still trying to process all my thoughts about this day.
DAY 22: Sept. 24, 2011 – Saturday AWANA'S kids group picture.
DAY 21: Sept. 23, 2011 – Friday night CARNIVAL for the kids!! SO MUCH FUN!!
DAY 20: Sept. 22, 2011 – Almost 20 days until I did my first official load of laundry, not bad
DAY 19: Sept. 21, 2011 – Intermurals at the kid's school! So much fun. This was the first day so all the grades did a group dance, the sport competitions happened the next couple days, we didn't go to them.
DAY 18: Sept. 20, 2011 – Surprise trip to Grace's farm to see how they harvest rice. Very cool! So much work for one tiny grain of rice.
DAY 17: Sept. 19, 2011 – Our first official day off!! Went to the waterfalls, went into town, ate some balot.
DAY 16: Sept. 18, 2011, Sunday – The girls make a special trip into town for WIFI at the Pine Hills Hotel! It was so exciting!! …our first outing alone
DAY 15: Sept. 17, 2011- AWANAS!! π Kids from all over town came, this is just the first bunch that were there on time. It was nuts. SO much FUN!
DAY 14: Sept. 16, 2011 – On Toddler duty. They loved my sunglasses, which are now broken…. (mom&gram notice the shirt π THANK YOU!!!)
too stinkin cute to pass up…also from this day:
DAY 13: Sept. 15, 2011 – Trip into town to watch Jeff Long's (our contact) son play his championship basketball game. (This is the day the internet went out in the entire city, neat.)
DAY 12: Sept. 14, 2011 – Taking the kiddos to preschool down the hill
DAY 11: Sept. 13, 2011 – Laundry day!!!! old school style
DAY 10: Sept. 12, 2011 – Made it to Mindanoa! SURPRISE! WE'RE WHITE WATER RAFTING!!! π (…at 7 oclock in the morning! π )
DAY 9: Sept. 11, 2011 – SHOUT OUT TO My baby sister who is THIRTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 U!
…still Sept. 11, made it to KIM kid's, notice our swolen feet.
DAY 8: Sept. 10, 2011 – No Saturday, due to time changes, Sept. 10th was basically non existent this year.
DAY 7: Sept. 9, 2011 – Let the first travel day of the WR begin! Heading to ATL, connection in LAX, Connection in Hong Kong, Finally to Manila. (head to Mindanoa in a few days)
DAY 6: Sept. 8, 2011 – We're just chillin in 'Lil Mexico' Gainesville, GA outside of a gas station π we were excited
DAY 5: Sept. 7, 2011 – Community sleepover
DAY 4: Sept. 6, 2011 – Met up with the A&Z squad at ATL airport, First day of Launch!!!
DAY 3: Sept. 5, 2011 – Girls day in ATL, we had Chili's for dinner
DAY 2: Sept. 4th, 2011 – Matt & Nick's haircuts
DAY 1: Sept. 3, 2011 – Flight to ATL