HAPPY 2009!!! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New
Year celebration! We sure did! God continues to bless us and fill our lives with his joy, love and peace and we pray that he does the same for you!
Okay, so this blog provides an overview of our life over the
past two months (while we have been on blogcation). Here is a list of the top 25 things that have occurred recently in no particular order:
2) Hosted a cookie exchange party to prepare for the holidays
3) Greg played in multiple soccer games that started at 10pm
(which really means like 10:30, 10:45)...on school nights!
4) Cooked a Thanksgiving turkey...and realized we forgot to remove the giblet bag AFTER we started carving it!
5) Celebrated Emily's 28th birthday
6) Went to the traveling Mexican Circus (in Comayagua)
7) Emily helped direct Maranatha
School's Christmas Program
8) Visited the Mayan Copan Ruins
9) Drank lots of Starbuck's Coffee (Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Twist - YUM!)
10) Welcomed our newest Godchild into the world, Ella Grace Cates Flatter
11) 14 1/2 hours worth of bus travel throughout Central
America
12) Went hiking in the mountains with the Friendship Chapel to deliver food and supplies to people living in the mountains
13) Emily's dad and brother came to visit for a week
14) Greg submitted his application for Graduate School
(after working on it for an entire year!)
15) Served a Padrinos (God parents) for one of the boys from the Hogar de Ninos during his high school graduation
16) Spent two weeks in TEXAS for the holidays
17) Emily started graduate school to earn a Master's in Education
18) Endulged in some delicious sushi in Austin
19) Successfully viewed Lost seasons 1, 2, and 3
20) Toured a Honduran Coffee Plantation
21) Greg bought jeans at Macy's for $4.50 (originally $60)
22) Ate lunch at the infamous 'trio'
(KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut...all in the same restaurant!)
23) Visited a historic Spanish Castle in Omoa, Honduras
24) Baked lots of yummy treats (cakes, cookies, snack mix, etc.)
25) Ordered and delivered official uniforms for Maranatha's high
school soccer team
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