"We had a fantastic time and it was a real feast. We went to our friend's house and we got to play with our friends while our parents talked to the adults. In the morning before we went we baked cookies and got ready to go. My favorite food that we had there was the cookies that we made and the pumkin pie with whipped cream someone else brought. That night we talked to our family on skype. I had a good time talking to our family." -C

"We had a real turkey. We had a good feast. My favorite was the rolls Aunt Crystal made and the turkey. My favorite part of the day was talking to our family on skype. I hope you had a great feast too!" -H

E enjoyed "helping" with the cookies (mostly the eating) and playing with her friends. She also enjoyed trying to get in front of the camera and wish everyone a "Happy Tanksgiving!" while we were skyping.

Afternoon in the village

"The village very unusual place then what we are used to. They keep baby goats in little houses. My favorite thing was to see the cotton field. I sat under a big tree with the kids and I got to take lots of pictures of them. They don't get their picture taken very much. I think they liked it. They smiled a lot." -C
"The village was very nice. It had nice people. The cotton was very pretty. The African kids were very nice and friendly. A lot of the girls had their brothers and sisters on their backs. I was really glad they gave us some peanuts to take home and make boiled peanuts. My favorite thing was getting to see the fields and animals." -H
E spent the afternoon entertaining the kids and chasing the animals. She had a ball!

E

Me just being me; the ham that I am. :)

H

C

We had a Character day at school. It was fun. I dressed up as Nancy Drew.

Our Wish Lists

Some of you have asked what we want for bdays and Christmas and so Mommy let us make online wish lists. You can see them in the right hand column. Click the link to our Walmart and Target wish lists. Remember the key word is "wish"...Mommy let us go pretty crazy. ;)

If you have any questions you can email Daddy & Mommy. Also, if you get anything form the lists either have the cashier scan the registry or tell Daddy & Mommy so they can update the list and there are no duplicates.

Silly E

I like to help Mommy in the kitchen. I helped her wash and fill our new canisters.

I got this funky thing on my arm. It started out as a bug bite or scratch and I kept scratching it. The doctor thought it was a fungus. It is finally starting to get better but please pray that it will continue healing and that Mommy & Daddy can keep me from scratching it.

I'm a silly head. After C got her bday morning picture taken I wanted my picture taken too.

I love care packages! Ponies and yummy popcorn; yay!

Koolaid; I am addicted to koolaid! And of course some sunscreen. We can't have too much sunscreen around here! Thank you Miller family!

Here I am being a ham on my new sheets. Thank you Aunt Lisa and Uncle Phil!!!

Here I am ready to go have some fun at the Fall Festival at C & H's school.

Here I am helping out another team because they had some watermelon to eat first! I love me some watermelon!!!

Exciting Stuff with H

We got a wonderful package with koolaid, dressing, and real bacon bits! The strawberry koolaid tastes real good and grape and strawberry and lemonade are my favorites!

I like the crayons from the Millers. They made it all the way to Africa and didn't melt! And I liked eating the popcorn on family movie night!

I like my new pink and polka dotted shees and pillowcases from Aunt Lisa.

I played our families' game at the Fall Festival. I threw Johnah in the mouth of the whale. There were lots of games and I really liked the cake walk. I ate lots of cupcakes!

I was on team USA South and we carved a watermelon. It was very fun and we got te eat watermelon too!

I have a cold and my ears are hurting (Mommy & Daddy are going to take me to the doctor tomorrow) so please pray that I would feel better.

Love, H

C's Awesome Birthday!

This is my picture for my party invitation.

I had the best brithday ever!

This is my Brithday cake.

We got a package and I got a present. What I got was a movie that was called Hannah Montana!

And I got a little giraffe. It was COOL!

I got some new sheets they are COOL.

I went to a fall festival at school. It was awsome!

So cute!

We want to win this adorable apron! Check it out; super cute!!! :)

More From E

We got a new dog named Aslan and I like him a lot!

I call every meal breakfast (no matter how many times Mommy corrects me) and I really love to eat. Especially breakfast! Here I am with a yummy bowl of oatmeal.

I had my secong dentist check-up (my first was in the States before we left) when a volunteer team came and did dental clinics in some villages. I wasn't crazy about the idea at first, but once I sat in Daddy's lap I was fine. :)

We got new African clothes. The tailor is the one who gave me my African name and he asks about me everytime Mommy goes there. Don't I look cute?!

My sisters have started going to school. I miss them when they are gone but am doing pretty well at playing by myself. At least I have Aslan now too!

We went to an island in Senegal before we left and after we took a tour of the island ate at a restaurant. I ate shrimp; look at the size of it!

This was our guide. (Please pray for him.) I was his little tag-a-long. I'm pretty sure I've never met a stranger. I make friends wherever I go!

When we got off the ferry to the island I lost my flip flop in the water! They were able to move it to the front of the boat away from the dock and a boy swam out and got it for me!

Love, E

Fun in Mali

This is our new dog named Aslan. C decorated his collar with flowers. I like Aslan because he is a good dog. Today we gave him a bath!

We were making chocolate chip cookies and a vanilla cake. I picked pink food coloring to make the cake pink. C picked green food coloring to make the icing green. It tasted yummy!

We went to a village with our new friends M & E. M is my age and E is C's age!

These are some movies our Mimi sent us!

These are our new African clothes. I picked out the fabric and what it would look like and the tailor made it for me.

We went to a place called Steak House. I like the steak and mashed potatoes!

These are some of our new African friends. We like to play in our courtyard. We are sweeping the sidewalk with an African broom.

I like helping Mommy cook. (We are in our new kitchen in Mali.)

We have a room in Mali and it is pink. I share it with E.

We went to N'ice cream before we eft Senegal and the ice cream we good!

We went to an island in Senegal and we got to play in the water at the beach.

I got to do a sand painting and it was fun! They had lots of different colors of sand from all over Africa.

We got to sit on a cannon!

Our guide gave me this flower.

By, H