Declare His glory among the nations,

so, laura and i recently ventured over to Chili's for a celebration dinner. we celebrated her 6 months on the field and my 3 months. good times. i was really hoping for some mango tea, but had to settle for strawberry lemonade. which was still verrrrrrrry good!

on thursday night, i took some cupcakes out to Canal 58. my kids loved them! so much that they wore the remnants for the rest of the evening!
we also passed out balls in celebration of "dia de los ninos" these girls had lots of fun decorating them. funny story...the one on the left actually bit my nose last week. it was crazy! i was holding her and talking to another kid and all of a sudden she just leaned in and bit the end of my nose! of course, i put her down VERY quickly! lol
these are some of the older kids in canal 58. so sweet and so much fun!
on saturdays, we sometimes go to david and becky's church where there is a feeding center. on average, they feed 35-40 kids each saturday. this week there were 85! i had a lot of fun playing with this little girl. don't let her sweet face fool you though, she was trouble!

this is her cousin. there were about 8 of them that were related and they were all a lot of fun!
more cousins!
after the feeding center, we went out to Santa Fe which is an area i first got to visit when i was here with mfuge in 2005. this is francisco and luz and their son, max. i met them that summer, just a month or so before their wedding. when i was here in jan. 06 luz was pregnant, and now they have a beautiful family!
it was so fun to finally meet max! isn't he a cutie?? just look at those eyes!
this is my friend, angeles, and i. we also met when i was here with mfuge in 2005. we don't get to hang out as often as i would like, but she is a sweet friend and i really enjoy it when we do get to hang out!in other, random news, we lost water in our house on friday. we thought it was because we paid our water bill a couple of days late, but it turned out that our entire neighborhood was without water. things got interesting, but it finally came back on late last night. i don't think i've ever enjoyed a shower as much as i did this morning!!