Paraguay - Japan

Paraguay 5- Japan 4!!!

The Pueblo Paraguayo is partying. Downtown is full of celebration. My sister-in-law cried! Paraguay...one of the eight BEST soccer teams in the World Cup!

Yes, we watched it at school! The kids went in their Paraguay Jerseys. Gaby filmed this. The game ended when bell rang. I don't think the students would have been ABLE to concentrate anymore.

People are still honking horns and blasting their radios with the Paraguay victory song.

Here's a clip of the reaction after the winning goal.

Good Friends

Mauricio...Mauri is one of Edson's good friends. They were born 10 days apart, both in November. They are quite the opposite in just about everything...hair, eyes, and personality, but they are good friends!

This picture was taken Saturday night at church. One of Edson's favorite spots is here, in this Ficus tree. From here, he can see the volleyball or soccer games without anyone bothering him. When I can't spot him (at night) in the playground area or in the hallways...he is usually here, in the Ficus.

Baby Shower

I made a diaper cake yesterday for my friend's baby shower. I never did something like this, but I was looking for some ideas for baby showers and found this. I had some lace and ribbons (from Aunt Janet) and some left over Huggies and Pull-Ups from Edson and got to work on it.

Ta da! It was finished in less than an hour.
Karina is expecting her second girl! Giuliana, her first, is 8. We have been friends for a while, since Giuli was in Kindergarden at CPA.

Once when we were going somewhere, I saw a rainbow in the direction of their house. So, I messaged her and told her that God had a promise for her. She texted me back to say..."How did you know?" We laugh a lot about that! She let out her secret thinking that somehow I knew...before she was even two months pregnant. All I wrote was that God has a promise for her and her family because I saw a beautiful rainbow over their house.

We had fun picking out names and blessing our friend's pregnancy and baby. I printed out some cute Bible verses to read and to take home.

We prayed for this child and the Lord has granted us what we asked of Him. – I Samuel 1:27

“Every good and perfect gift is from above.” – James 1:17

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you…” – Jeremiah 1:5

“From the fullness of grace we have received one blessing after another” - John 1:16
“I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.” – Psalm 92:4
“And He took the children in his arms, put His hands on them and blessed them.” Mark 10:16
“Children too are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward.” – Psalm 127:3
“For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.” – Psalm 139:13

It was a fun, girls night out!

Brandon

Brandon is sitting here with me today while I write this.

I said..."What should I write about?" and he said, "Put in this picture of me."

So, Here's Brandon...

Edson's Pictures

Edson has been into drawing and coloring lately. This is last night's version of "mom and dad" and cars. After a while he said that he decided that the bottom picture was not cars, it was teeth! (Then he showed me his teeth and growled like a big bear growl and ready to attack.) Yeah, That's what it was supposed to be! Huge teeth!

More Citrus

This is a red-colored ORANGE. We had about 50 fruits this year. We would have had more, but Edson picked them off when they were grape-sized. These are not as sweet as some oranges, but they are pretty good. When we made orange juice-it was more like reddish-pink juice.
The middle one is peeled like they peel oranges here, and then you can suck all the juice out of it. The citrus fruits are almost finishing. It's been wonderful to pick them straight off the trees!

Grapefruits...or Pomelos...or Toronja!

We had five HUGE GRAPEFRUITS on our tree this year. This is no. 4. Sometimes they get to be the size of a basketball. There are some dark reddish ones and light-grapefruit colored ones.

My dad used to always work away at cutting little triangles out of halved grapefruits. I never liked all the work or the bitter-sweet taste. But, eating a grapefruit in Paraguay is like eating grapefruit sugar. Here people will peel them, cut a hole in the top and suck all the juice out...I decided to do it my dad's old way...cut it in half and slice out little triangles, then squeeze all the juice out.

The huge grapefruits are not juicy. You have to peel them and then pull all the pulp out of them. It tastes like little bubbles of sweet grapefruit. There is no way one person can eat one fruit all alone. It is way to big!

Ummmm! One more left this year!