Peanut Butter & Jelly

Growing up, Pedro did not experience something most American children do... eating a peanut butter & jelly sandwich.

This summer when Pedro came to Washington, he tried his very first PB & J.

He said he was curious "what all the hype was about." When he was taking those first few bites, his face wasn't expressing exuberant joy or life-changing bliss, so I wasn't sure if he was too impressed. But the next day, he wanted another one for lunch...and the next day for breakfast-toasted....and the next day for breakfast AND lunch....!

Now here we are in Vietnam, getting used to how to shop and cook with the foods we have available to us here (we're really trying not to eat out, but cook at home to make the most of the money we have). There are more fresh foods, and less options of what we can keep in the cupboard or fridge for more than a few days before it spoils.

Peanut butter is available to buy here. At the supermarket,

there's creamy, chunky, with sugar or without. We'd been

buying the "creamy without sugar" kind, but then I found it

for sale at the market in a plastic bag: creamy with no sugar.

We've also found some cute, small (210 gram) jars of strawberry jam, which we cracked open after finishing the container of strawberry preserves from Vietnam.

I'm really not a fan of PB & J's, but I couldn't be a happier new wife than to make my husband something he LOVES and that is incredibly easy for me to prepare (and I can't do anything, that I can think of, to make it taste bad, hehe).

It's Peanut Butter-Jelly Time! Video

I've Always Loved You

If you weren't able to join us on our wedding day, here is the link to a short video you can watch.

Thank you to our good friend Lance Baker for taking great video at our wedding and for creating this beautiful masterpiece :)

Youtube link: Wedding Trailer

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpHrc2BHP-g)

(Andrew Sankey Photography)

The song we chose for the video is "I've Always Loved You," by Third Day. It's a beautiful song written as G0d talking to us, His beloved. Here are the lyrics:

"I've Always Loved You"

I don't know how to explain it
But I know that words will hardly do
Miracles with signs and wonders
Aren't enough for me to prove to you

Don't you know I've always loved you
Even before there was time
Though you turn away
I'll tell you still
Don't you know I've always loved you
And I always will

Greater love has not a man
Than the one who gives his life to prove
That he would do anything
And that's what I'm going to do for you

We're grateful that our Father has always loved us, and that He always will, regardless of if we deserve it or not-because we don't. We give the Lrd all the glory and honor and praise for bringing us together in marriage, and we know that no matter how much we love each other, He will always love us more. We love Him and praise Him, and want to humbly live our lives serving him and sharing His Love and salvation with others.

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 8:38-39

A lesson on English grammar

Welcome to our blog!

This will be where Audrey and I will be posting updates on our life in Vietnam. We thought it'd be best to consolidate our blogs as opposed to having two different blogs for our family and friends to visit. It's also much easier for us to update one blog (offering more content in a single page) instead of two. We will also consolidate our picture websites into one (see links on the sidebar).


Now, you may be wondering (or not) about the name of our blog (or the link, anyway). Don't worry - we were confused, too. Personally, I wasn't sure of how spell the pluralized form of my last name in English. Audrey and I discussed it for a bit, but in the end we googled for the answer. It turns out that the same rule that applies for pluralizing the name "Jones" (Joneses) applies to the name "Borges" and therefore, -es is added to the name to pluralize it. It isn't Borges' or Borges's as we thought it could be. Apostrophes are only used for possessives in the English language. The reason it looks funny (it still kinda does to me) is that there are not that many proper names in the English language that end in -es, so we don't see them often. Other possibly odd-looking examples would be Alvarezes (Alvarez) and Foxes (Fox).

So there you have it. That's what we gathered after some research, but if you find other sources that say otherwise, please let us know. We definitely want to spell our last name correctly. :)