Home is Where the Heart is

Hello friends! We hope you're enjoying this Thanksgiving week! We're thankful this week for our meetings with friends & students, Christmas music, singing & nesting. :)

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Photos #23, 24, 25, 26, 27--Nesting: Since we received our wedding photos last week, I printed some off and found some nice frames (not an easy task), and started nesting a bit more!

We also found some nice scripture wall hangings, in Vietnamese and English:

This one in Vietnamese is Joshua 24:15b--"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

When I went to print some wedding photos, I forgot that photo measurements here are in centimeters not inches. So when I asked for 6x8, I got 6cm x 8cm...smaller than expected! So I made this with the "oops" photos.

Photo #28--Orange Juice: Pedro & I have both been sniffling and sneezing a little this week, so I bought a kilo of oranges to make orange juice. Prayer + Vitamin C = Healthy Borgeses!

Photo #29--Joining the Choir: If you followed our separate blogs in March of this year, you know that Pedro & I both participated in singing at the Vietnamese church for the 100 year celebration of the church in Vietnam. We sang one night with the Vietnamese church choir (in Vietnamese) and another night singing "Prince of Peace" in English with the International Fellowship. The VN church invited the international church to sing again at their Christmas Eve service. This Sunday we had our first choir practice. We've broken up to sing a 4 part harmony, and it sounds great! Here's Pedro singing with the bass section:

Photos #30 & 31--Happy Teacher's Day!: November 20th was Teacher's day, which is another greatly celebrated holiday in Vietnam. Like on Women's Day, the streets are lined with people selling flower arrangements. Pedro came home from teaching with a flower basket and homemade cake! The next day some of his students came over for dinner and brought a basket as well!

Bless you this week as you reflect on the many provisions and blessings you experience in your life. Give thanks to Him!!

Welcome to our home!

We wanted to show you where we live, so we made a little video tour of our house. Enjoy!

Video tour

If the link above doesn't work, copy & paste the link below into your browser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BcgaKXESM

Unpredictable (but great) weather

Happy Mid-November! We can't believe how quickly time is flying by...next week is Thanksgiving, and soon December will be here! We're thankful for each day and each week we enjoy here. Here's what's been happening in our lives lately:

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Photo #18--Jackets: It's finally cold enough that we're wearing jackets and drinking hot coffee!!

Photo #19--Pizza Wonderland: We had a spontaneous date night in Hoi An this week. Usually we plan date nights a few days in advance, but this was on a whim! On our last date night we went to a movie, and on the back of our ticket stub there was a 40% discount for pizza at one of our favorite restaurants, Al Fresco's! We enjoyed this yummy pizza on the patio of a beautiful, dry evening.

Photo #20--Quiche-erole: I made this for dinner...I'm not sure if it's a casserole or a quiche, but it tastes good! In an attempt to save money, I've been trying to utilize everything we have in in the fridge for meals. This is made of eggs, potato, flour, baking soda, green onion, cheese, salt & pepper. I'm having a lot of fun experimenting and making up my own recipes! :)

Photo #21--Neighborly Visits: Lately, out little neighbor Bi Do (Pumpkin) has been coming into our house on her own. She sees that our gate is open, and makes her way in. She's somewhere between 18 months-2 years old, but she can get into our house on her own, and even kicks off her little sandals before entering. The other day, Pedro was in the kitchen, and I was coming down the stairs when I saw Bi Do coming in through the curtain. I called out to her and she looked up with a smile. She walked straight for the kitchen, so I followed her in there and gave her a piece of chocolate chip cookie. She ate it, but made a face. I think she liked it though, because she accepted another bite before she left. Isn't she precious??

Photo #22--Laundry: After MANY days of hard rain, the sun has come out :) Everyone on our block (and I'm sure everywhere else) took advantage of the nice weather to do some laundry. The backs of most houses are up against the backs of other houses, so optimal sunshine for drying clothes is in the driveway, on the front gate, or sometimes even in the road! Whatever works :)

So there's a little piece of our life this week! We hope you're enjoying the many blessings of the Fall-iday season. Love to you and your families!