This is the bow that Grandpa made for Patrick. He also made one for Ben. That was last Monday, when Gary and I went to Portland to file my AOS and EAD application.

These two just wanted to pose in front of the cam so I let them...

Swimming on a hot day

It was sunny, but the wind was a bit blowing so it makes the day colder. The water in the pool was icy cold! It took us getting used to the tempreature gradually before we can submerge.

Kids were still apprehensive to get in the water...

Juliana was the first to dare get in it. AT first she was wearing the usual 2-pc bathing suit. Then she decided it was too cold, went back into the house, got into shorts and tops with long sleeves, wishing these would warm her, but no luck. 

Public Playground

We went to the Athens Fairgrounds to join the STick-Horse Show (I had no pre-conceived notion about it save for children using a stick-horse). It was so boring. I thought there would also be rides and exciting shows, but there was none. So we proceeded to the public playground. It was a very hot day.

Last day of school

The K class sang for the opening number of the Talent Show. It was the last day of school and students from every level presented a talent of some sort (although personally I wouldn't call some of them a talent. In the Philippines, when a kid shows off her/his talent, most often, the audience would be captivated. Here I was mostly disgusted, (Talent ba yun?) but the rest of the audience clapped and cheered in encouraging the children. I was wondering whether the presentors were just making a BS out of the whole thing...)

Helping in the Garden

Kids: While waiting for Grandma to arrive to teach us how to plant potatoes, we helped Mama attend to her flower goarden. 


You should see Mama's Hardin...we also helped in planting potatoes, picking up rocks from the veggie garden and throwing them into a drainage pit.

We took a break while Mama prepared lunch.

They played ball in the freshly-mowed lawn (Gary mowed the lawn yesterday). 

We finally evacuated the living room!

Kids: We were all excited to move upstairs to our newly-finished (not totally finished, though) rooms. Papa asked us to pick up our clutter from the living room, leaving out the trash and bringing them up to our own rooms...

The living room suddenly looked so big and roomy.

Papa had to supervise us because we tended to throw away our tinker toys and pencils and crayons (especially Ben!)...



Mama: Now we finally evacuated the living room. It will be the next working area as we start the work downstairs. But that won't happen anytime soon. We still have some finishing touches to do upstairs. 

Ben's bedroom

B: Papa and Mama have finished my room too! BUT...I had to sleep tonight at Patrick's room because Mama and Papa are not yet done with J's room...so she gets to sleep tonight in MY ROOM! ( :( )...

B: Papa had already placed my computer in my room (actually at present, this computer I share with J because Papa has no moneoy yet to buy me my own computer...

J: Finally I have my own bed now! [ not this one! This is B's...mine is already on the other room (shown above)]...... And I will have to sleep in the other bedroom alone...

P: This is great! I have my own room now, and my computer is here too! Really really cool...especially that Papa has fixed my computer...now I can play my new Rayman 2, and actually read the text there! (It was blurry in Mama's computer where I first installed it)... 

Patrick's Bedroom

Kids: We were all excited to sleep for the first time in our bedroom! Well, technicall it is just Patrick's room, as his was finished first. So all our beds were put there for the meantime.

J: I had to sleep on the floor because Daddy has not made me my bed yet. He will tomorrow, he said...

Goodnight, Mama, Papa! 

Online Scrapbooking

Wish we had this system to do "scrapbooking" online as soon as we stepped on this land...Anyway, there are still a lot of exciting things going on...we can fill this up in no time, I guess...

Fine Arts Day

It was Fine Arts Day at the kids' school. This is a poster made of squares of shading artworks which when pasted together created such a stunning picture! The model here is their principal.

Ben with his K teacher Mrs. Lexier.

Tibbetts kids posing in front of K class artwork.

K class rendering a musical number

Gr 3 class doing their thing

Ben's art

Patrick's art

Clay sculptures from other classes

Pastel painting by a jr high student