Fun School Days

The kids are officially done with school, but since Nov. 2, have been involved in a vacation course. They get to do lots of fun things like cooking, drama and gymnasium. Yesterday they brought home 2 cups of purple and red jello that they made themselves. They were pretty proud! They are having a ton of fun! A few of the days have been "theme" days - like last week, they searched for buried treasure as pirates.
And today - they got to go to school dressed in their pajamas, because they are having a pajama party!
I'm interested to hear what they got to do today for their pajama party - I'm sure it involved some type of candy - every party here in Guatemala includes candy!

We've also had lots of fun in the house - I've been staying at home with them during the afternoons since they started school last spring. Although it's had it's challenging times, I've enjoyed the extra time that I've gotten to spend with them. A few weeks ago, we went grocery shopping and brought home a few boxes - of course, the kids found uses for them...

We are on the countdown until our huge Maxima Mision project takes off - only 17 days from today. Scott and I are super busy coordinating lots of details. Please pray for us as we coordinate 500 people planting 10 churches in 1 week. It's going to be awesome, but right now feels very overwhelming. We need our prayer warriors to be on overdrive for us. The actual event in Dec. 2-9.

Well, with that I'll end this blog. As I just mentioned, there is lots of work to be done. I'll leave you with a funny quote from Elijah - now that he's 4 1/2, something funny comes out of his mouth almost daily!

Overheard at the dinner table a few nights ago:
Scott: Em - should I save room for dessert, did you make anything?
Elijah: Mommy - what did you make for dessert?
Emily: I made zippo.
Elijah: Zippo? Can I see it?

Hugs to everyone - happy thanksgiving a week early!

The Armstrongs