It’s Thanksgiving week! So that means a short week of school for the kids and some prep to do for dinner Thursday. But the first half of the week was business as usual. Here are some highlights:
Rhens sores are starting to look soooo much better after starting on the antibiotic. Her leg definitely got it the worst and still looks really red but the open sores are starting to heal and scab and peel which is much better than it has been.
Beach day was spent at Playa Pinones in Loiza. We got there a little later than normal so we didn’t have too much time in the water but still or really pretty night to be out.
Some of the kids we’re home Wednesday and Josh put them to work unloading a load of gravel and moving it around the driveway. Eventually we want to extend the driveway out a bit and put another parking pad in. For now some extra gravel will do!
Beck drilled holes in the bottom of our garbage cans so they stop collecting water when it rains.
Josh worked on some drainage around the concrete by the pool. He wants to make sure we don’t get standing water that will eventually leak into the pool so he put in a French drain that will help direct the water better.
And the kids that were at school all partied on Wednesday! Lots of snacks and movies to celebrate Thanksgiving at school.
Wednesday night and Thursday morning we all worked hard getting food ready and the house cleaned up for Thanksgiving dinner! We had some people from our ward over and we’re so happy to have some loved ones join us for the day! We ate so much good food and talked and talked about how much we have to be grateful for. David and his dad, Eudaldo, Laura and the missionaries were all there with us and we have grown to love these people like family. We’re so blessed to have had such great people placed in our life just when we needed them.
Later on we played games and laid around while we let our stomachs empty a little bit to make room for pie. So we are more after a while and then laid around even more. It was just the best day!
The rest of the weekend we had to do whatever we wanted to do! Josh and some of the kids took a walk down the road one day and met some neighbors that we hadn’t met before. They chatted about plants and flowers and ended up coming home with armfuls of starts from different plants to put in our yard.
The rest of the weekend we had to do whatever we wanted to do! Josh and some of the kids took a walk down the road one day and met some neighbors that we hadn’t met before. They chatted about plants and flowers and ended up coming home with armfuls of starts from different plants to put in our yard.
One evening we walked down to the basketball court and played speed and then a mean game of ultimate frisbee that ended in a close 5-4 score. The winners were a little bit, how do you say…, poor winners. But we handled the loss well and will be ready for them next time!
Saturday was candy day and we got to work first thing. We didn’t have all our equipment to do everything like usual, but we still made some good stuff. Oreos, peanut clusters and Twix bars were what we ended up doing and they all turned out great and looked good in our packages for neighbors and friends. The kids all helped a ton…and also helped themselves to plenty of tastes during the process as well. Let’s just say we went to dinner that night and didn’t realize until we were all in bed that we hadn’t had dinner! Chocolate and snacks filled us up for the day!
Today is Sunday and after dropping off our packages of candy today I can’t help but feel so grateful for the people we love here. We have been blessed beyond belief to have been welcomed into a ward and community that has just opened their arms to us with no question. We feel grateful for the many many blessings that continually flow into our life on the daily and the chance we have to be here in Rio Grande as a family. We know this time isn’t going to last forever. But while we’re here, we just want to enjoy every moment of it. This week I’m grateful for this particular moment of my life. It’s so good.
Saturday was candy day and we got to work first thing. We didn’t have all our equipment to do everything like usual, but we still made some good stuff. Oreos, peanut clusters and Twix bars were what we ended up doing and they all turned out great and looked good in our packages for neighbors and friends. The kids all helped a ton…and also helped themselves to plenty of tastes during the process as well. Let’s just say we went to dinner that night and didn’t realize until we were all in bed that we hadn’t had dinner! Chocolate and snacks filled us up for the day!
Today is Sunday and after dropping off our packages of candy today I can’t help but feel so grateful for the people we love here. We have been blessed beyond belief to have been welcomed into a ward and community that has just opened their arms to us with no question. We feel grateful for the many many blessings that continually flow into our life on the daily and the chance we have to be here in Rio Grande as a family. We know this time isn’t going to last forever. But while we’re here, we just want to enjoy every moment of it. This week I’m grateful for this particular moment of my life. It’s so good.
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