Pool and sun time

Caleb has been able to enjoy the pool a little bit this summer with daddy. He has yet to learn how to swim though. Right now he is still more interested in playing instead. I try to soap up some sun too as my doc just told me I'm low on Vitamin D. Perhaps living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam did it. Or just the fact that I've been doing more of what the Vietnamese do--carrying an umbrella under the sun.

Enjoying some delights of home

Being back in California means we get to taste and do things not found in Vietnam, like Bok Choy, blueberries and raspberries, asparagus, button mushroom, shaved ice, and miniature golf with friends!

Time back home

We shared 6 meals in the past 4 days with friends and supporters back home, catching up and blessing one another! Been home for a month and one more to go before heading back to Asia!

Back home

Caleb and I are back home and Andy will join us Wednesday. We've been traveling with my family visiting relatives along the West Coast. Some pictures of our past three weeks can be found here. Send us an email if you are in the area so we can get together! Lord willing, we'll be back in VN mid-August for our fourth year.

Plans

Lord willing, we are coming back to Vietnam next school year! Thanks for lifting us up. And we will be home for the summer in June and July. Email us so we can get together!

New projects

A student introduced me to a yarn store the other day and I ended up with a ball of yarn and knitting needles when I got home. Hopefully by this winter, I will have finished knitting my first scarf for Caleb. Here's the partial project.

There is only one bakery in town where I can find wheat bread. We love making peanut butter jelly sandwich with it as shown here. But when I really miss those whole wheat bagels back home, I have to resort to making my own, for the first time! Here are pictures of the boiling dough and the very-homemade-looking products...

Updated pictures

Finally uploaded some pictures from the past couple months here. Still have more to upload but that will be another night... But here's a picture of my second attempt at using up my whole wheat flour before leaving for the summer: Braided Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Bread.