June 1st-- Children's Day

Children's Day was on June 1st. It was cold and windy so we didn't go far. They were selling kites in the park so Hetee got 2 for the kids. They had so much fun flying them. Here's Abi holding on for dear life. The wind was about to pick her up off her feet!




Here's Hetee, tweaking Nate's bat kite so it would fly better. It worked!


Nate had the time of his life! The perfect way to spend a cold, windy day in Mongolia. =)

Here are some picrures taken of Abi and Nate at the playground a few days ago.

Don't you just love Abi's dress? It was a gift from her Mongolian Grandma and Grandpa.

The Kids' New Sandbox

Wood-$8.00

Truckload of sand-$6.50

Having your kids think they have the best dad in the universe... PRICELESS







I knew Abi and Nate were excited about the sandbox but Kenny liked it a lot more than I expected...













Ewww, gross!

Luckiest Mom in the World

Nate, Abi and I were cuddling during our bedtime reading time a few nights ago. I asked them what was their favorite thing about our family and Nate replied, "Loving you." Abi then said, "Hugging you." Aww!

I'm so lucky!

During a trip to the States about 4 years ago, I was asked to go into Mexico and translate for a team from a US church. Hetee wasn't allowed to go because of the type of US visa he had so I took Nate, who was about 10 months old and nursing at the time. I'm never doing that again, by the way. It was...well, another day, another post.

Anyway, back to the swing. I didn't have much money but when I sat in this hammock swing I just had to have it! The old guy who was selling them gave me a discount and I bought it with my last $20.00. At that time we didn't have a yard or even the prospect of one but I knew that we would eventually have one since we had been praying. We brought it back to Mongolia and pretty much forgot about it. Then Hetee dug it out the other day and set it up for me. It was so nice and, for a minute, I felt like I was taking a siesta under the mango tree in Putla again. That is, until everyone came out to see what all the fuss was. It was nice to show my kids and my husband a little bit of Mexico.