New friends!

This week we are thrilled to introduce our new friends we met through The Chapel.  It is a family from the Philippines that have recently moved to Fort Wayne from California. These folks moved to the USA when they were teenagers but still carry on much of the Filipino traditions.  I was blessed to walk with the mom one morning and later in the week she invited us all over for a Filipino meal in which she cooked several favorites.  Cate had been asking me to make pancit palabok.  This gal cooked it for her and Cate loved it.  We all enjoyed our dinner.  Thank you to the Esperanza family.

 

Cate and Sarah enjoyed some Uno.

 

 The kids really enjoyed paddling on the pond. 

 

We decided to take advantage of the nice weather and the fact that we had a weekend at home to finish up some outside chores.  Our deck had not gotten finished so we did some painting.  Cate loves this detail work and kept at it for several hours.

 

 Josh quickly tired of painting and decided to do a chore with a motor. 

He loves to weed eat and we love that he loves it!

 

 

Cate decided to try 2-handed painting.  :)

 

Josh has been punting on his football team so he needed to practice kicking. 

Below you see Josh with a new home for his captured caterpillar.  I emcouraged him to take the little guy outside!

A Sunday afternoon tradition in the Fall is watching our favorite team, the Indianapolis Colts, play NFL football.  We usually have some special snacks and just kick back!

 

Watching football is not Cate's favorite thing to do so she decided a

word search would entertain her for the game.

 

Thanks for reading the blog and praying for us.  I hope you had some favorite activities this week.  Our Upwards virtue for the week is Perseverence....keep going when things get hard!  Sometimes life is hard for Josh & Cate.  For example this weekend Josh had 10 vocabulary words to study.  They were impede, haphazard, complacent, insipid, destitute, superfluous, scrutinize, meandor, embellish, and elated.  For a kid that has only been in the USA 2 years and is still learning basic English these words are tough!  Is he going to pass this vocab test?  Not a chance!  Is he still a child of the King!  Absolutely!  Keep those prayers coming as we continue...

 

Choosing joy,

Chris & crew