My 8th Birthday

On January 18, 2011, it was my birthday. I turned 8 years old! It was a Hello Kitty party. I invited 30 children to my party, all my friends from church. Mommy made a Hello Kitty cake. She made it with cupcakes all around, and a little wafer cookie house and fence on top of the cake. It had a little Hello Kitty doll in front of the house. I loved it!

We played a ton of games outside. And we had a lot of fun!























Then we did the Pinata...it was a Hello Kitty Pinata, as tall as me! I got a lot of candy when it broke.












I also got a lot of presents. My favorite was my Jessie from Toy Story outfit.

It was a great day!

Michaela

Diego Danger Daniel

On January 6, it was Kings' Day. Kings' Day is really "Dia de los Reyes Magos". In some countries, kids put out their shoes with hay and water for the camels of the Three Kings. In the morning, they find presents in their shoes! So we put our shoes out. And in the morning, we found gifts, books and a Hello Kitty doll, and a new 3-D Toy Story shirt for Joshua.

Then Mommy came back from running and said there was one more present outside. We went outside and Mommy said to look in a box. And we looked and there was a tiny little puppy. He was SOOO cute. He's only a few weeks old. Jonathan kept wanting to grab him.

We looked for dog names on the computer. We found some funny names! We chose the name Diego Danger Daniel. We named him Diego after Dora's cousin because he likes animals, and because it's a good spanish and english name. We named him Danger because he's going to be a guard dog, because he's little now but he's going to be huge like a real guard dog. He's a German Shepherd.  Our cousin Aidan is also named Aidan Danger. We named him Daniel because he has to have a Bible name.

We like our puppy!

Joshua and Michaela

Our Cousins Visit

After Grandma and Grandpa left, our cousins came to visit. They are not REALLY our cousins...they are our Daddy's cousins! Their Daddy is our Grandma's little brother. His name is Uncle Norman. His wife's name is Aunt Kristin. And their children are Ava Lauren and Kristanna. Ava Lauren is really tall, but she's only 4 years old (almost 5) and Kristanna is 6 years old.

They came to Honduras on a Maranatha trip for families. They spent some days building something somewhere else in Honduras, and then they came to visit us. We had a lot of fun!

Joshua and Michaela