Rare flowers

We were up in Papallacta for the morning and Marlene saw these flowers. The plant is almost white and blooms very infrequently. When she saw the flowers, the camera came out!

The cowboys

We were in the valley the other day and the boys wanted to try riding a horse again, so here they are!

It's been a couple of years since they had last done it and so were able to enjoy it more this time.

Art from the Lion King

Joshua drew this freehand

(I checked as I couldn't believe how well it was done! Indeed, it was a slightly differently size from the picture he was copying it from.)

Ministries

 This pas weekend, our church held its ministry fair where there are stands representing each of the ministries in the church. The idea is to make people aware of the various ministries of the church, but also to encourage people to get involved.

When Marlene and I arrived, we each had thought we knew where we were going.

Marlene was going to help with the Evangelism stand and I was going to the Men's Ministry area.

But, God had other plans.

When we found out that the Prayer and Intercession stand had no one there, we went and started praying with the people.

What a time of encouragement. Not what we had anticipated, but we pray that God used our willingness to go where we were needed to bless others.

The Lego / Duplo Masters

Joshua and Joel have great creatividad for building things, Here they demonstrate some of their Lego creations.

One of their dreams is to go to Lego Land in California. There are a number of neat videos on YouTube by visitors to the park.

There is also a very cool video about how Lego started. Originally, it was a company that produced wood products, but when things became difficult financially, the owner decided to try building high-quality wooden toys.

The factory burnt down, twice. But, when the son went to a trade fair and saw a plastic injection molding machine, he bought one and started playing around with making a type of building block.

The blocks origiannly didn't snap together, but just sat on top of each other. Eventually, through trial-and-error, the current design was found..

And the result is a toy that all kids (and many adults) enjoy.

Joshua - the artist

 Since this drawing by Joshua won't fit on our fridge, I'm posting it here. This is Joshua's rendition of Commander Cody from Star Wars.

He wanted to redo the leg because it didn't come out right, but I still thought he did a great job!

Men's group

We have a good men's group at church. A lot of spiritual teaching, discipleship and fun as well. We are working on being involved in more service-related ministries.