Monday, December 1, 2008

A wedding, funeral, and a birthday

Long time, no post! I'll try to make up for it by adding lots of pictures. :) It's been a busy few months for us, continuing to learn language and culture as well as build relationships.
Recently we attended a wedding, a birth, and a funeral... we have been able to see the full circle of life and experience both joy and pain with our friends, as well as all that's in between. Here's a picture of our friend's wedding. The theme was green this time.

This is the funeral for a friend of ours who lost her baby after only 3 days. It was a heartbreaking experience. We were there for the whole thing... delivery, saw the sweet little girl right after she was born, visited every day in the hospital, prayed together... and ultimately sad good-bye together.


This is another friend's baby on the day she was born. We have learned a lot about the local traditions surrounding pregnancy and birth.
What a cutie!


And all the inbetweens... These are some of our neighbors' kids. It is such a joy to see them playing everyday, singing songs, and so full of life. Plus they are just really cute!

So, those are some of the highlights for the past few months. We love living here. With each day it's feeling more and more like "home" and we count it a privilege to be able to live here. We just miss you!!! Wanna come?