tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50046247483518086922023-11-16T02:12:34.817-05:00Bryans FamilyRenaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00523154500743584190noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004624748351808692.post-81677034570841820492012-01-10T20:48:00.000-05:002012-01-10T20:48:23.665-05:00Molly's Christmas Recital<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJDrHA0XkjYncTc0D5fzdsVZb4FJKYjNNjf_tYtjO3CEZf5-3NQiuzHSUcebxGw-ATd3fQBKnxl39JM7G0h-d2CNagFGmAnpHcNpwSM-q3-7okEBQRsaYhxUrdGycjFTaciaTt1XuX2mc/s1600/IMG_8727.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJDrHA0XkjYncTc0D5fzdsVZb4FJKYjNNjf_tYtjO3CEZf5-3NQiuzHSUcebxGw-ATd3fQBKnxl39JM7G0h-d2CNagFGmAnpHcNpwSM-q3-7okEBQRsaYhxUrdGycjFTaciaTt1XuX2mc/s320/IMG_8727.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Molly's ballet class had a small Christmas recital. I guess we had been doing too many Christmas activities because Molly kept yawning throughout the program.<br />
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Here they are dancing to Rodolfo El Reno De La Nariz Roja (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer).<br />
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Being our 4th Christmas away from home, we decided to keep busy with fun Christmas activities to distract us from being homesick. We are so blessed to have many wonderful people in our lives here in Quito!<br />
<div align="center"></div>Renaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00523154500743584190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004624748351808692.post-18361084347507177482012-01-06T21:52:00.000-05:002012-01-06T21:52:29.198-05:00Cotopaxi Volcano<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDz0bryq_opOwXWdBkavuI30k3gq0kfx5YWLLH6RtP-RgkBF8OyWCBsb9voNwxkOqYd1KlM1dwtEPbf67CaPGawfupcXYfmU4-4Drqt7_RH_v_asq9w7xs3CBE21o7OEDUnvPlqGFA505R/s1600/IMG_8717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDz0bryq_opOwXWdBkavuI30k3gq0kfx5YWLLH6RtP-RgkBF8OyWCBsb9voNwxkOqYd1KlM1dwtEPbf67CaPGawfupcXYfmU4-4Drqt7_RH_v_asq9w7xs3CBE21o7OEDUnvPlqGFA505R/s320/IMG_8717.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Cotopaxi Volcano is the highest active volcano in the world. It is about an hour and a half south of Quito. Our goal was to find snow to play in and to hike up to the refuge. Both goals were accomplished. Sure 2 of our kids cried all the way to the refuge because their hands were so cold from playing in the snow, but we made it!<br />
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Here is Luke to tell you about his creation...his favorite part is the snow man and yellow snow.<br />
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Molly describing her gingerbread house...<br />
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Molly had so much decorating her house. Here she is singing as she decorates.<br />
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We also went to a friend's house to make more gingerbread houses.<br />
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</div>Renaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00523154500743584190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004624748351808692.post-55305938902507077662012-01-04T20:25:00.001-05:002012-01-04T20:28:52.788-05:00Christmas Program<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit59lj8iHA1n4x-3DoWwBYwws-II9A_IGkeqdSrYb2n0m6vgb-hghWb1tCx3b_QF5j7XpSgGBNpfTXq8p2dNER-6wLuepNgez0ruPyCfvt03FFZ-jeq_sB0SIsuU8NJ5hvu5ExMDr68BK6/s1600/IMG_8587.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit59lj8iHA1n4x-3DoWwBYwws-II9A_IGkeqdSrYb2n0m6vgb-hghWb1tCx3b_QF5j7XpSgGBNpfTXq8p2dNER-6wLuepNgez0ruPyCfvt03FFZ-jeq_sB0SIsuU8NJ5hvu5ExMDr68BK6/s320/IMG_8587.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Molly's class got to be stars in the Pre-K and Kindergarten Christmas program. She was so excited about her costume and all the gold glitter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uVybXwZxz6DNUMaNLCN9EmsfhocuuMIvOz2u7BwaXrLcTveVzQ4im75HA0SXV-1GI4wiLFj4JIWManbKup0-qBPdp6l0Xps3Lq0LcOY5yUzclxtCjCiXC1ECCwJ1_8Gml1QqFsKuZh_k/s1600/IMG_8584.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uVybXwZxz6DNUMaNLCN9EmsfhocuuMIvOz2u7BwaXrLcTveVzQ4im75HA0SXV-1GI4wiLFj4JIWManbKup0-qBPdp6l0Xps3Lq0LcOY5yUzclxtCjCiXC1ECCwJ1_8Gml1QqFsKuZh_k/s320/IMG_8584.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/cr2J-AJK3m0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is Molly's kindergarten class singing their special song.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">The Pre-K and K classes singing a sweet birthday song for Jesus in Spanish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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A wonderful night to share the Christmas spirit of the Cascanueces ballet with friends. Thank you to Ecuador for making so many of your cultural events free for people to enjoy and appreciate culture. We all loved the music, snow falling, and graceful dancing. I loved sitting next to Molly and watching her eyes light up throughout the show. The Nutcracker Ballet - a new tradition for this mom with her daughter.<br />
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</div>Renaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00523154500743584190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004624748351808692.post-77713132914969327882011-12-20T20:34:00.002-05:002011-12-21T09:15:12.263-05:0012th Birthday Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_RYceYc7o3KPe0FbcsW1Zuoob-F9BI_kbTDj9RMC8_4CPO7PdonjEJscZhg3p3t2UCWzjUYwDZIDrxdUgbkmC-3bIBFWLFg669LPxkcNbIE6melicR9CMa6Z-LL0Pvw5bcMTDLF014RR/s1600/IMG_8495.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_RYceYc7o3KPe0FbcsW1Zuoob-F9BI_kbTDj9RMC8_4CPO7PdonjEJscZhg3p3t2UCWzjUYwDZIDrxdUgbkmC-3bIBFWLFg669LPxkcNbIE6melicR9CMa6Z-LL0Pvw5bcMTDLF014RR/s320/IMG_8495.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Luke wanted to invite to his birthday party all of the 6th grade boys in his school - that is 21 boys. To my great surprise 18 of the 21 had permission slips to ride home with our family. This would not have been a problem because Casey had lots of fun games planned outside in our neighborhood park. The problem began at 2:50 - rain and lots of it! At 3:30 we had a game time decision to make, and we chose to go to Laser Tag in the mall and then to our house to eat hot dogs, chips and salsa, watermelon, and cupcakes. <br />
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As if the rain had not complicated things enough, we have Pico y Placa on Fridays. We cannot drive our car in Quito during certain hours on Fridays, so we could not drive home from the mall and had to keep our car there. The party would not have been a success without the help of our wonderful friends, Rich and Elisa Brown. They took half of these kids from school to the mall and we took the other half. While the kids were playing Laser Tag, the Brown's went and got our ministry van to pick up all of the kids from the mall. What amazing friends we have!<br />
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Jordan was not as excited about his part in the Quito Day Celebrations. He was an escort for Karlita who was dancing the Flamenco.<br />
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The 4th grade boys were not too thrilled about all of this, but they did a fantastic job.<br />
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The next morning was a very special day - Molly learned to ride her bicycle without training wheels!!<br />
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The next day of vacation we went to the Ackermann's house for a super fun fall party.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Renaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00523154500743584190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004624748351808692.post-41618823871539608442011-12-05T19:14:00.000-05:002011-12-05T19:14:02.670-05:00Soccer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNu90lWXmY28KYtSA83BAfR1TCrbXTLnJzjTr5KIRT3h4k7s0_16lFOE2d29lflZyFwzzdCGXiJE485UjLiPgBkNFlQhi0o2ud-UTrk4Z-4zulRkxUa1biStOdH5R7lBL0Ugw1Il_-Q01/s1600/jordan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNu90lWXmY28KYtSA83BAfR1TCrbXTLnJzjTr5KIRT3h4k7s0_16lFOE2d29lflZyFwzzdCGXiJE485UjLiPgBkNFlQhi0o2ud-UTrk4Z-4zulRkxUa1biStOdH5R7lBL0Ugw1Il_-Q01/s320/jordan1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Jordan and Luke absolutely love everything about soccer. Their favorite intramural sport at their school is by far soccer. Almost every day after school, Jordan puts on all of his soccer gear including goalie gloves and heads to the park on our street to practice playing. This was the first year that Luke and Jordan got to be on the same team, and they were thrilled. Because they practice together almost every day, they play excellent together.<br />
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Jordan did great and was not even too nervous. So proud of you, Jordan!<br />
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