Quick Blog

Hello all and a short blog for you today. Michelle and Lisa are staying with us at Lela's tonight and they have been without Internet for two days. And since we know how long two days can really be being out of touch with family and friends we let them have as long as they needed. We had fun today, shopping at the Center where they have souviners and I wish we would have gotten some photos at the stands we shopped at but they probably would have made us pay them for taking a picture of them. Plus it was so cold we just didn't think about it.(The only two days we have been out shopping here have been the two coldest and windiest!) Ariana was thrilled to finally get to hold a chinchilla and get her picture taken with it. She hasn't stopped talking about the chinchilla since we left the Center last week. We know for sure that Natasha has learned at least one English word so far "chinchilla"! We had a fun afternoon and evening at Lela's wrapping Natasha's teachers' gifts and teaching Natasha to play Phase 10. We told her that this was something she would need to learn eventually with all the Phase 10 players we know!(Julia Hanson! Pastor Phil, Miss Julie and the Alpha Gang) She loved it and her favorite part was always skipping Papa when she had a skip card to play. Michelle let us use her phone to call home and touch base and Natsasha got to talk to Miranda for a bit and they both understood what each other was saying: ) Miranda thought Natasha sounded like Lena VP on the phone. Afterwards, the girls curled up to a movie, Pollyanna, and are now fast asleep as I write. It is funny how when Natasha comes to stay she always picks out the exact same movie that Ariana has picked out the night before! Ana doesn't mind as she never gets to watch a movie everynight when she is at home.
Thanks for all your posts we love reading them and we will be thinking about the wonderful program the kids will have tomorrow and wishing we could be there to see it.