Birthday Season Snapshots

Happy Birthday Season to my two favorite men! 😉

Happy Birthday Eve to JM! We ❤ you!

Celebrating at the Acevedos’ in Totoral with the AK Team!

Celebrando con los estudiantes de hermenéutica...

🎉😋🎂

Happy Birthday Eve to DJ! We ❤ you!

Celebrating while we wait at the airport...

Celebrating with classmates at school...

🎉😋🎂

Still pending: “Moose Party” – in the plans since our visit to AK in mid-2018!

Happy Birthday, DJ!

Happy Birthday, DJ! We ❤ you!

📸: FotoGonza

(Hee! Hee! And fb automatically tagged JM in this photo!) 😉

Visitors from AK and SC!

“Aunt Shannah” came to MVD for a quick visit since she was “already in the neighborhood” on a missions trip in Peru.

Sunset over Montevideo

Supper in Barrio Palermo

Her visit overlapped with that of the work team from one of our partner churches in Fairbanks, AK.

A typical tourist pic in downtown Montevideo

Work Day at Camp!

Thankful to have participated in a work day at camp today... 💙

📷: Rick Jensen

This Little Man worked especially hard today...

#CampamentoEmanuel 🎔

¡Somos Celestes!

Enjoying an outing to a favorite place in our neighborhood – in spite of rain off and on! World class soccer at less than $5.00 (dollars) per ticket: Hard to beat!

📷: “selfie” with Canon PowerShot Digital Elph (pocket camera) 😉

¡Fanáticos!

On the way home, Peruvian fans (our rivals in the friendly match this evening) asked if we would be willing to trade the little flag of Uruguay we’d taken to wave at tonight’s game for the t-shirt the boy was wearing!

Such a sweet gesture! I regret not getting a picture with them...

💙⚽💙

Paseo a la Granja

Disfrutamos un hermoso paseo didáctico con el colegio el lunes pasado.

Este simpático nos dio la bienvenida... 😉

Y fútbol… ¡Siempre fútbol! ⚽

¡Re-agradecidos por la oportunidad!

More Favorites!

Shortly after posting my top twelve favorites from our photo session, I saw that our photographer had highlighted ten of our family’s photos on his fb page.

It’s fun to notice where we coincided... 😉

We overlapped on this shot...

We both chose this one!

And we overlapped on this one...

We both chose this one!

And we overlapped on this one, too!

Family Photo Shoot Faves!

Last week we finally managed to schedule a long overdue family photo shoot. (The last time we “officially” had “family photos” taken was over three years ago.) We’d aimed for our “spring break” (September 16 to 20) but ended up having to reschedule several times due to the gastrointestinal flu that’s currently making its rounds and was going through our (usually well) family that week!

The photo session finally materialized on Wednesday afternoon of last week. The weather was perfect, and even the azaleas were at their peak in the “Jardín Japonés” in the Prado neighborhood of MVD. As JM commented, that detail would have been practically impossible to plan ahead of time!

SO thankful!

I’m once again challenging myself to choose my top twelve favorites:

And a bonus shot – just because there are so many favorites!

📷: FotoGonza