Basketball, basketball, and more basketball

Not too much going on around here except for a lot of BASKETBALL!  Kyle has been right in the middle of basketball season for awhile (actually, I THINK we might be near the end...at least, that's what I'm hoping).  This year Pinares has had a number of games take place at the school, plus they were invited to participate in another tournament that they haven't done before.  This weekend was the big tournament of all the bilingual schools of Honduras...thankfully in Tegucigalpa this year!  All that to say,  Kyle has spent a number of early mornings and late nights at school.  Yesterday he left at 6:30 am and returned at 9:45 pm, with work to do before he left at 6:30 this morning.  But, several of the teams are playing very well and they've won a few games.  

A couple weeks ago our school hosted a Family Game Day and Kyle was in charge of a good part of it (its a fund raiser for the Athletic Department).  There were several carnival type games that the kids could play as well as indoor soccer, volleyball, and basketball.  During the last 2 basketball games, Kyle had planned a a Balls and Dolls Toss.  During the first free-throw of each game, the audience threw balls or dolls onto the gym floor (balls during the boys game, dolls during the girls game).  All the balls and dolls were (or will be?) donated, but I don't remember where he said they would be donated to.  

Kyle will also be starting a bible study with a few guys who graduated from Pinares 2 or 3 years ago.  They are in college here, and he will be doing the Truth Project with them on Saturday afternoons.  

Juliana and I have been busy here reading books, playing dolls, coloring, and blowing bubbles!  I guess there's a lot more than that, but that's the fun part.  I have a women's bible study that I attend; we're currently going through 1 Samuel.  We also attend an evening home group every other Tuesday evening.    In the past we have always gone through a book (that usually correlates with a book of the bible).  However, because of things that are going on politically in Honduras, it was decided that we would go chapter by chapter through Nehemiah.  For each chapter we make a list of observations (characters, setting, history, reoccuring ideas, things that stick out, etc), write down questions that we have about the chapter, find the answers to as many of those questions as we can, and then finally write down life applications from the chapter.  This last Tuesday was our first week doing this, and it was very interesting.

I haven't gotten very many pictures taken lately.  But a few weeks ago she was the only child in the nursery, and Christa said she was pulling some funny faces, so they had a little photo shoot.  Thanks, Christa for passing on the photos.

Fun in the nursery

Currently Juliana is a little bit sick.  Not too bad, but she's running a fever, has a cough, and some congestion in her bronchiols.  She's now on a decongestant and nasal saline spray and hopefully she'll improve soon!  It was just disappointing, because she has a friend in town for the weekend and they LOVE playing together.  Hopefully she'll get better fast so we can fit a couple play dates in before Maddy leaves.  She is still pretty happy, plays a lot, and eating pretty well...we just don't want to get Maddy sick.  Today the sun actually came out and the weather warmed up, so we went outside for awhile.  It wore her out pretty fast, but she had fun at the time!