Another Week Flew By

This week has been crazy busy.  In fact, it's hard to believe it's already a week since some of these pictures were taken.  Life is just flying by.  There's a ton going on.  But it's easier to show than tell, so here are a ton of pictures of our past week.

Last weekend we got to enjoy the annual Sports Day (well, technically it's a 2 day event).  It's great fun to go sit and watch the Track and Field competitions at the Secondary Campus on Friday and Saturday.  It had been a couple of years since we were last in Ukarumpa over a Sports Day (and not in the village).

A special and rare treat of Cotton Candy!

The aftermath!

Julianne pretty much knows all the High School girls and loves them.  We can never go anywhere without her stopping to hug everyone walking by!  Here she is with some of her friends....

I ran a 4x100m race with these awesome ladies!

Matt's 4x100m team.  And yes, they did run barefoot-- and they creamed the other team!

That afternoon, Justin's shoes just up and completely disentigrated!  Thankfully, I did have one more spare pair that I was just going to bring back to the US with us, but they are now being put to good use!

Then on Sunday, Kaitlyn's 6th grade class was in charge of leading worship during the Sunday morning service.  It's so neat to see her growing up!

On Tuesday, Kaitlyn got to come to Julianne's preschool class and talk to them about her pet guinea pig.  The theme for their week at Preschool was "Pet Week", so it was great fun to have Kaitlyn actually bring in one of her pets to show the preschoolers.  They loved it!

Wednesday was Julianne's last day of preschool.  The rest of the kids have about 2 more weeks of school, but due to the lack of a teacher to finish out the year, they finished early.

Friday evening was the annual Banquet here.  It is our equivalent of the Jr./Sr. Prom.  The parents of the 11th and 12th graders work insanely hard in the week beforehand to transform our large, non-descript all-purpose building (the Teen Centre) into a magnificant themed place.  On Friday evening, the community turns out to watch as the teens arrive dressed beautifully, to their Banquet (which goes to the wee hours of the morning).  The theme of each year is kept a strict secret and no one finds out till they arrive what the theme will be.  This year it was "Treasure Island".  They are treated to dinner and booths which are hand built by the parents.  There was even a mini bowling alley built this year!

Hanging out and waiting for the Banquet arrivals

My kids two most favorite babysitters ever!  We're so blessed to have these two amazing, beautiful young ladies in our kid's lives!

the Teen Centre transformed!

Finally, here are a few more random pictures from this weekend:

Julianne loves to rollerblade up and down our hallway.  With no sidewalks or paved driveways, this is the best flat place available!

Justin lost 3 teeth this month!  I think that sets the Taylor family record.

So, that's our week in a nutshell.  In the in-between times, Matt has been working on translation with our 3 Nukna guys who are here for about 4 more days.  And I'm attempting to pack up the house, in the midst of 7 people living in it and all the normal, busy day-to-day activities.  I'd say we're definitely keeping busy!