Month: July 2009

Honduran Dinner

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Tonight was the Honduran dinner we planned as a fundraiser for our upcoming Honduras Mission Trip.  The dinner was a great success and everyone seemed to love the Honduran food we prepared.  The entire team (Ross, Christina, Donna, Mary Frances, Beth and Myself) all worked very hard and we definitely appreciated the abundant help from Debbie Ferg and Susie Blankley.  I know Beth and I had a lot of fun in the kitchen preparing all the food.  The night also raised a good bit more money than I had originally expected (God is good!) and we are now approaching being fully funded.

Beth, Mary and Christina preparing the chicken

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Paintball

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Today Mary and I went to play paintball this morning with the youth.  Beth came and brought Walcott.  It was a lot of fun albeit really hot.  Mary got a pretty nice welt on her neck, but I still think she had a good time for her first paintballing trip.  I had a pretty good day and managed not to get hit.

Paintballing Trip

We just got back from cutting vegetables and preparing some food for our fundraiser dinner tomorrow night.  Things are really ratcheting up on our Honduras Mission trip which is only a few weeks away now.  Here is a little video from the Missionaries showing the children’s camp we will probably be helping with.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiPRwKfdKO4

BTO

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Beth, Mary and I decided to go to BTO (By the Ounce) Frozen Yogurt tonight after dinner.  They just opened a new one near our house and considering Beth’s obsession  (and maybe mine as well) we really needed to check it out.  It sounded especially good after my 2 hour long soccer game this evening.  Beth, Mary and Walcott came to watch and let Walcott run around a bit.  BTO was pretty good (and a cool concept that I might copy one day).    The yogurt was delicious and they had probably 20 flavors and (as evidenced by the second picture) ESPN.

BTO

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Beth’s Birthday

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Since today was Beth’s birthday she came and met me at the University to eat lunch.  She also brought Reece and Harper along for the trip.  It was a lot of fun to get to meet the kids that Beth has been spending so much time with.  We saw a couple of my fellow grad students and all were quite confused by me pushing a stroller and Beth following close behind with a 3 year old.

Mary, Beth’s sister, also arrived today to stay with us for a while before joining us on our mission trip to Honduras.  It’s exciting to have family come stay and spend some time with us since we don’t get back to Mississippi too often.

The end of the night was spent at the Jankowski’s for our weekly Spanish lessons with Yunuen.  We had an intense conversation over the personal “a” and definite/indefinite objects.

Spanish Lessons 7/15/09Also, Walcott decided to dig in the mud puddle Ryan left in the back yard.  Since he was dirty we had to tie him up outside where he proceeded to chew through his leash.

Walcott Digging