Blessing of our Marriage · posted Nov 20, 09:49 PM
Here’s Brendin, all dressed up saying “How long of a wait will it be?!” No one could decide on a restaurant so we just winged it, and like we figured, we paid the price. It was supposed to be only a 30-45 minute wait but the table they were waiting on decided to sit around for an hour AFTER they paid their ticket. So the manager apologized and gave us a ton of free appetizers. The food was amazing, we mostly ate seafood, so it was well worth it. It’s hard to get that kind of food in SD. But talk about two great kids. We got there around 7, after sitting in a church for an hour and a half, and didn’t get home until 10:30! The kids were great, it couldn’t have went smoother, especially since we were anticipating problems since Davin didn’t take a nap with all the excitement.
Brendin wanted to take some pictures, this is where we were sitting taking family pics a few weeks ago. He’d say “I sit down, I sit down”. And then wait for me to take his picture. He’s been saying a lot of short phrases and says his “S” words so much better than Davin did. It took us a long time get Davin to say snake instead of nake!
We want to thank Jeff, Susan, Anna, Stephen and Grandma Bert for driving down to see us and Rachel for flying in to see us on this special day. We had a nice time. Hopefully you guys will get to spend a week out here some time so we aren’t rushing.
Last week we were finally matched up with a refugee family. We are volunteers for the IRC, they help relocate refugees. It is a Somali family of 10. They have a little boy that is 1 year old, 3 yrs old, 6 yrs old, a girl who is about 8 and I can’t remember the other ages. They have 2 nieces and a nephew in their 20’s. One of them speaks English rather well so our first meeting went great. The kids had fun we had fun and most importantly the family welcomed us and was very grateful to accept our help. A couple of funny things; they were handing out popsicles like it was August-I don’t think they have had them before, and when Jeremiah went to put them back in the fridge they had just popsicles and a frying pan in there!! They have never used a fridge before so we’ll be teaching them a bit about appliances. The 6 year old boy was listening to me tell Davin that they speak Somali, just like at story time the lady reads the books in Spanish. The English speaking girl asked me if I could speak Spanish and I told her no. The 6 year old looked at me with a big smile and said “cómo te llamas?”. The lady told the family what he just said and they all had a big laugh out of it. No one was sure where he got it from but it was really neat to hear him say that since he doesn’t even know English very well. I’m just going to email the pictures to everyone on the list as I we had their permission to take their picture but it would be about impossible at this point to get their permission to post them on a website. They had a lot of fun using a digital camera for the first time. You can tell they don’t quite know how to center the camera as some of the pictures aren’t that great!
Oh, and a happy birthday to Dana!