photo shy?

new bungaree pictures to come very soon. jackson had a great birthday. I'll post them at some point, pretty soon.

luvs.

primeras frases completas

Aquí estamos tratando de hablar en frases completas. Todo es muy básico, pero los niños van aprendiendo rápidamente. Por ejemplo:

¿De que color es Yoko?
-Yoko es blanca.
¿Cómo se llama la gata blanca?
-Se llama Yoko.

¿Cómo te llamas?
-Me llamo Jackson.

¿Cómo se llama?
-Se llama:
-Oliver
-Yoko

¿Cómo me llamo?
-Te llamas mamá

Es como empezar de nuevo con ellos, y como si olvidáramos que saben hablar en ingles. Como si empezaran desde bebes otra vez, porque lo que estamos aprendiendo es completamente distinto. Es difícil no hablar en ingles, pero acabamos de empezar y ya estoy viendo resultados enormes. Los dos aprenden rápidamente. La verdad es que lo que no aprenden o lo que no saben es toda mi culpa. Estoy trabajando en disciplinarme más y tener más sesiones en español. Quisiera llegar a hablarles solamente en castellano en la casa.

bungaree speak: getting bigger

B: do you realize that oliver is just about as tall as jackson?
b: no he isn't
B: Yes, look at them!
b: no, he is only up to his shoulders.
j: no he's not, he bites!


B: Brad
b: bethany
j: jackson

tricycles

pretty eggs

We did easter eggs today. It was HUGE fun with jackson. I have come to the conclusion that brown eggs make the best colours, check it out!

bungaree speak

Ha! Here we go again:

j: why do we have teeth? (he is constantly asking things like this now-a-days)
b: Uhm...for chewing our food.
(silence)
j: (and then in a very matter-a-fact manner he says) And for smiling!
b: Haha, yes...that is a good reason to have teeth.

bungaree speak

we had some friends over the other day, here is the discussion amongst them, and me.

b: did you know that adrianne's daddy is a firefighter?!

emily(next door neighbor): my daddy is too!

b: wow! (I know that this is not true...but whatever.)

j: well, uhhh...my dad is a cowboy or something...

b: haheeehheh...is that what you think, jackson?

j: yeah.

b: well he might seem like a cowboy, but he is actually a buisness man.

j: oh, I like that...a busy-man.

WE'VE STRUCK GOLD!

I said I wouldn't do it for long, or couldn't and God does listen! We found our church. We'll be going to Calvary Chapel. So if you are interested, check it out. I know that to any of you that I talked to this will seem funny, I said it was too big and we probably wouldn't try it. I will admit I was wrong. Well, it is big...but we did try it. After that last blog I wrote on church shopping I felt convicted as to my attitude with this church, and God used it all for the better. See, blogging really does have a purpose! haha...anyway. Never say never is always true! yes, i was wrong: we love it.

On many different levels we feel a strong connection with this place. Gold, we've struck gold.

(and yes I know churches are not perfect, neither is church leadership, and I also know this is where we are supposed to be)

Church shopping: COMPLETE

B&b ex libris

B&b ex libris :one bookboy (B) & one bookgirl (b) + the books that together they bring (ex libris).

Hey Brad and I started a book blog....check it out and I hope you get hooked! It will be fun to keep a blog together, and this is the perfect thing to do!

Tell us whatcha think!

i'd be a japanese hippie

notice: this is not any weird religion I am currently joining, and I do not believe in karma or reincarnation. I just sometimes think of things like these...and how life could have been different depending on when and where I was born and where I lived and grew up. So, take this as that only, and nothing else...okay.

Do you ever feel like you were not born in the right country!? What about the right generation!? If you could tell God (and your parents, and maybe your grandparents) the way you wanted things...what would that look like. I am not completely serious...so please chill. Here is an example, I'll use myself as an example for what I am talking about:


A DIRTY Hippie!
Sometimes I feel like I am too different than those living right now. I am not for conforming, or blending with what is acceptable. I know there are people like that now, but I relate more to the hippie types than the indie kids or hipsters or others of this day. I would have liked to grow up in the late sixties! I would have wanted to be part of the Jesus Movement, and getting all these dirties saved! (me among them obviously!) I am intrigued by the dreams of that day, the passion that was lived with, and the changes they made that we still reap the benefits of. I want a genuine movement of down-to-earth passionate zeal, and a people that is not afraid of anything, or too dignified to love anyone.


Japanese !
Sometimes I feel like I should have been born in Japan, and Japanese. I don't know...it is mostly an infatuation with that culture, also the joys of that people. I love the little tiny food compartments and gadgets they have.Their products are cute and itsy. Another reason is that I am small and have a really tiny body structure, which would fit in so much better there. I should have been born Japanese, then I would have learned one of the most complex languages from birth, and would have moved to the US to learn a language that is much easier. Then I could read kanji!

Those are my two, what are yours?! Maybe I am strange and you never think of these things. But, now you can start hahaha!!