Well, today has been a little better than yesterday. We are still down one TV and DVD player but things could be worse! The sun has shone all day and that always puts a smile on our faces! Greg has worked in the yard today and has almost got the yard level so the lake doesn't continue to grow in our backyard! ;o) We are planning on buying some sod next week so we can hopefully see some improvement in our backyard soon.
We had a family over for lunch today and we are slowly making friends in this area. We are going to their home tomorrow for lunch and we are hoping this is the beginning of a very good relationship between our families. They told us there would be 2 of them coming and then they called yesterday and warned us that there would be 2 more. So I had planned on having a meal for 9 people. Then they showed up and there were 7 of them. Luckily I have learned to make a LOT of food and we had plenty for everyone!
Our neighbor, Elena came over this morning and wanted to know if we could come and look at the damage that had been done to her pottery. She said she didn't want to move it until we had a chance to look at it. It was really horrible, at least half of her order that she had made for someone was destroyed. I told Greg I guess I could consider that my anniversary gift. ;o) We paid her for the damage that had been done and hopefully we can make amends soon. Please pray for her.
The boys have started taking music classes at a church nearby. This is something that was never available to us before because of where we lived. So now we are taking advantage of things like that and the boys are really thriving. Jerod is very serious about taking guitar and Alex is really liking the drums. They are showing a lot of progress and we are very happy for them. God is really good to us!
Sweet little girl at church on Sunday.
They are so beautiful!
Annie is trying to make friends.
Typical street in our village.
I loved this cross they have at the end of this street, it looked like it had been there for many years. So much history here.
Our new drummer in the house.
This is right up his alley!
Oh man, what have we started?
Here is our serious student. He is very motivated and very excited about learning.
Nothing like free lessons!!
These were AWESOME!!! We have been trying out new restaurants and this one will be one of our favorites, I think. It was called Paparatzzi. We think that is a cute name because in Spanish a potato is a papa and the restaurant had baked potatoes with tons of different toppings and boy were they good!! This one came with broccoli, cheese, sour cream, salsa, tomatoes and onions.
This one had cheese, sour cream, bits of steak, bacon, tomatoes, and onion and salsa. So.... goood!!
We saw this lady at Wal-mart and then as we all left in the rain we saw her on her moped with her kids.
Her groceries are all in that box in front of her, and both kids had drum sticks in their hands just eating away as if they weren't bothered one bit by the cold rain.
Our neighbor's house. Oh how heartsick I am over this.
All of the pottery that got wet on the bottom was ruined. It gets wet, then cracks. This is because she was waiting for it to be dry enough to cook in the oven. However, now she has a LOT less to cook. ;o(
I told her we were praying for her and she said, "Pray for my heart because it is very sad. All those hours of work gone."
She wanted Greg to come over and look at each one to see which ones were destroyed b/c she didn't want us to think she was taking advantage of us.
Out of all the pottery she had made all of these were ruined. So, we bought $100 worth of unusable pottery today. They will all be thrown away b/c they just crumble when you pick them up.
The peace offering. After we had smoothed everything over with our sweet neighbor, and tried to make peace between us, I was still a little worried she was mad at us. Then she asked if I liked this kind of pottery. So of course I told her I loved it and she quickly gave me one. Then I felt like everything was going to be okay. I plan on making her a cake tonight and taking it to her tomorrow just to show her how much we want her friendship. Please pray she is blessed.
Thanks for reading and keeping up with us! love to all! Missy
