A Month in Pictures

It’s time to play a little catch up!  Here is a bit about what we have been up to the past month.

One Friday night we decided to get the boys out of the house, so we took a walk in the Macroplaza in downtown Monterrey.  It is the largest plaza in Latin America, and we walked for several hours.  It was fun to see the boys run around and just be goofy.

Jaime, Eduardo, Ellen, Ana, Oscar and Adan

Eduardo and Adan find a huge horse

We took a group of teens from the Hope Program (some from our house, and some from other houses) to Saltillo one Sunday to visit our old church, Vida Internacional, and do some sightseeing.

Our group at the Mirador, the highest point in Saltillo

The slogan of this restaurant is "If you haven't been to Las Brazas, you haven't been to Saltillo", so we couldn't leave without taking the teens here!

Jaime, our youngest boy in the house, turned 16 years old.  He didn't ask for any gifts, and didn't have any ideas when we asked him where he would like to go out for dinner, but specifically asked for an ice cream cake for his special day.

Jaime and his cake

I think he enjoyed it...

The weather has warmed up here in Monterrey, and the pool is now open on the Back2Back campus.  Ana loves the pool!!

Ready to swim!

Ana and I have started going to a children's home called Casa Hogar del Norte on Thursday mornings with a group of other staff women to play with the 1 and 2 year olds there.  Sadly, these kids rarely get to be taken out of their cribs all day, so it is fun to be able to give them the opportunity to play and run around, at least for a little bit.  It is fun to watch Ana "minister" to the kids her age!

Playing with the kids

Ana helping with early stimulation exercises

And there you have it!  May promises to be a slower month as we gear up for a crazy summer.  We will be receiving a large number of mission teams in June and July.  Oscar is becoming more and more involved in working with the American teams, so I'm sure they will keep him busy!