I will start this post off on August 6th, which was a significant day for Christopher. We Celebrated his birthday. He of course turned 6 on 14 Aug, but we did his party on the 6th, before school started!!!
We had a large party at the Mall at the Bounce house!
The Cake!
The birthday boy blowing out all 7 candles....
Christopher on the spot!
Maria was still here.... she left on the 18th of August.
Christopher got to enjoy his birthday and someone else cleaned it up.
He got a nerf knock off mini-gun. He loved it.
Christopher and Mrs. Newton, his home room teacher, at the back to school orientation.
The day before back to school....
An unrelated cool picture of one of many of Florida natural resources.
The day before school we had a back to school party at the race track with Maria and Devin.
Christopher and his driver....
Christopher on the mini-kid track! He won....
The competition...
We won a lot of tickets....
Back to school morning....
Christopher's first day of 1st Grade.
August 14th, his real birthday.
Maria got him a large Nerf gun, the Dominator!
Night fishing in Val-p.
When you have all your toys taken away, sometimes you have to go old school.
We used our imagination to make a bottle cap city.
Every city needs a wall.
Our car made a few mile stones.
It is not easy to get the picture, but I was not going to fast.
Before my trip to Louisiana I made some bread for the trip and other workers.
All this made for a few good breakfast and gifts for our host. We were very lucky, all my team had a roof over our heads thanks to my cousin Aimie and her husband Jacob.
Christopher receiving his Orange Belt.
All the advancing students.
Our ward was asked to send volunteer's to Louisiana to assist flood victims. The ward was asked for 15 and we sent over 40, all in all about 3000 LDS volunteers worked the 27th and 28th of August. It was a great effort and chance to see the church at work.
We removed the flooring and dry wall in a large compound. It was another denomination's church and church complex. It was two days of hard work.
One of many piles of materials removed.
The team (11 brother and one sister) and the Pastor of the Church.
Christopher got a nasty cold and had to have a treatment and he got to use the remote control.
Then he got an X-ray. He is recovered and back to himself, but he got to see military medicine for the first time.
We are keeping him, he seems so gentle through the glass.
The latest, is Chimge is TDY in Korea for some reason or another. She left a few days ago and will be back in the next week or so. She is doing some translation stuff and having a nice time touring Seoul.
So now you know what we have been up too and your up to date.
Until next time....
