Our big school girl!

On July 22nd Anna started her first day of Kindergarten.

"Ready for my first day of school!"

All excited

A supportive brother

Getting right to work

Kindergarten is a busy place.

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Happy 3rd birthday Joshua!!!

On July 10th Joshua turned three! He enjoyed celebrating with his cousins and other friends here at Ukarumpa.

A little fun in the water

Happy Birthday Joshua!!!

"I love Thomas the Tank Engine!"

Miles and miles of fun

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Playtime

A few snapshots of Anna and Joshua at play

They love the climbing tree in our back yard, especially when their cousins come over to climb in it with them!

An aspiring carpenter!  Is this work or play?  When our porch was being built, Joshua wanted to get in on the action too.

As the porch was about finished the kids gave it a test run

Horsing around

Watching our new family favorite… The Jungle Book.  After only a couple of times seeing it, they have many scenes memorized!

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Bedtime

These are some fun pictures of the kids bedtime

Joshua loves to sleep with his “friends” huddled around him

Sometimes he comes into our bedroom in the morning, announcing, “Here I am with all my friends!”

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Mother's Day pictures

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Pastor Nickson's family comes to visit

Pastor Nickson serves with Gospel Recordings of Papua New Guinea.  He has been heavily involved in recording Wantoat Scripture portions into oral format (mostly cassettes up to this point).  Last weekend (May 8 to 11) Pastor Nickson and his wife, Grace, and their two girls, Joann and Hadassah came to stay with us in our home.  It was a rich time of fellowship and planning for future ministry in Wantoat.

We gave dolls to Joann and Hadassah. Anna loved showing how to dress the dolls in play clothes.

One of the most exciting parts of the visit was when Pastor Nickson showed us the new Sabre MP3 player. This is a new technology that we will use for distributing Wantoat Scriptures. One advantage it has over older cassette technology is that it can hold the entire New Testament plus more!

One of the most fun parts of the weekend was sharing skills. Grace wanted to learn as many recipes from Becca as she could. Here Becca is teaching how to make pizza from scratch.

Grace was also excited to learn how to make peanut butter cookies...

... and bread rolls.

I shared the best food I knew...

... Georgia sweet tea!

The kids shared a whole lot of fun too!

It was neat that Grace was able to reciprocate the sharing of skills by teaching Becca how to plant greens.

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Easter photo shoot

These are some candid pictures from our “photo shoot” on Easter Sunday.   The pictures at the end show the final results of the effort.

“What's happening over there?”

"I'm a little bored."

"Hey!  What's this... a piece of grass?"

What a beautiful bunch of kids!

The whole gang

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Easter egg hunt

These are some pictures from the Easter egg hunt we had at Easter.  Jonathan and Carrie’s family came over, and we all had a great time!

The race is on!

It is fun to watch Joshua in this series of pictures.  It is almost like a movie of him.

It was hard to keep Joshua looking for eggs.  He kept wanting to eat the candy inside!

This is a little patch of banana trees in the backyard.  The kids call it a "jungle".  I don't think they found any eggs in there.

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A message from Anna and Joshua

Here’s a message just for you from Anna and Joshua!