Christmas in Czech

Here are some pictures of Christmas time in the Czech Republic...

1. Carp on the street corner ready to be taken home for Christmas dinner

2. Czech cukrovi (Christmas cookies) and the Nativity...2 important parts of a Czech Christmas

3. Live nativity at the town square

4. Laini's class play

Celebrating what God has done in our lives...this year we invited our friends and neighbors to join us for Thanksgiving dinner. About 50 people joined us for turkey and lots of food, music, and some Thanksgiving traditions. Through a skit, we told the story of the first Thanksgiving. (We had great pilgrims and indians).

And we were so thankful for the new building in which to have this event. It would have been a little crowded in our house.

American Football in Plzeň???????

Plzeň has an American football team called the Patriots. Zachary is on the junior team (ages 15 -19). This was only the second year they have had a junior team and they took a year off in between, so their record wasn't so great, 0-6. But they had a lot of fun.

English, Coffee and Uganda = a great evening

We offered our first "English Coffee House" and the special guest speaker was a local believer and geography professor with a love for Uganda. He just published a book (in English and Czech) about Uganda, "Pearl Rising from the Dust".

Larissa in Turkey

No, I didn't say Larissa is a turkey, but she was in Turkey :-)

Along with a school from Hungary, Turkey and Germany, Larissa's class went to Torbali,Turkey to work on some European project together. It was a great opportunity for her; she was able to visit Ephesus and meet other students from all over Europe.

Fall Party with Friends

We invited our friends and neighbors for some Fall fun!

Each child got to "Trick or Treat" at each inside door of our house. Then we had lots of games, food and fun and fellowship!

Christmas in October

I would say that we had the most memorable Christmas ever! So what if our Christmas tree was a lamp, and the rest of our house was being prepared for a Fall party...Grandma and Aunt Mindy were here and after a great week with them... we enjoyed an awesome Christmas.

...perfume from Egypt, cool knives from Saudi Arabia, and great clothes from America :-) ...

but most of all- a fun time with 2 great people