Waiting for Santa

Before we passed out presents, we had to take pictures of the girls. They were pretty patient while Paul read the Christmas story from the Bible.

The Nieces

Jorge's nieces Brenda and Nicole met us for lunch at Betty's. We had sopa de mani and saltenas. Hmmmm. It was good.

Salpicon

I made salpicon, a Bolivian potato salad, for New Year's Eve get-to-gether at church. I think it tasted pretty good.

Christmas Cookies

Lynnea and her girls made sugar cookies before we arrived. They were waiting for our girls to help decorate them. The girls did a beautiful job decorating, and the cookies tasted delicious.

Christmas Tree in Virginia

We were blessed to spend Christmas this year with my sister's family in Herndon, VA. The 5 girls had an awesome time together. The tree out front was a favorite spot for the girls and the neighborhood children. Even Moose got to climb up the tree.

Christmas Moose

Water!

A water main out on the highway broke Friday night. Two water towers emptied into the river. The pipe was fixed Saturday morning. However, the water towers had to be refilled. We waited and waited and waited for water. Finally, the water came back on Tuesday afternoon around 3:15 pm.

We learned how important water is in our lives. We use water to flush toilets. It takes 5-7 gallons of water to flush the toilet. Jorge brought in rusty well water in a 5 gallon bucket to flush the toilets.

We had a hard time cleaning up the kitchen and washing the dishes. Rusty well water was heated in order to wash our dirty dishes. This brought back memories for Jorge who grew up heating water to wash dishes.

No showers without water. Of course, rusty, cold well water works to wash your hair. I gasped every time I poured the cold water over my head (Laura).

Papaw brought drinking water from KMBC for us to use. We learned to conserve it carefully.