Finally a Post!

Okay, okay so here is the post you've been waiting for. It seems like so long ago, so far away but it was really only last month that we were in PERU! Wow!

Looking out window on one of the flights we were on. It was a beautiful day!

Raymond, Ben and Thomas riding the tractor. Looks like fun!

Washing dishes by candle light

Bonnie and Megan. I really like this picture!

Heather working on the wall

Louisiana with a friend at the seminary

There were tons of stray dogs wondering the streets

An open market that our moms and Mrs. Stilwell (sr.) went to on Sunday afternoon

Heather and J at the restuarant

Sarah and Felipe after our hike up the mountain

Felipe playing with a beach ball that Mom gave him

Painting the little swimming pool...almost done! (with the bottom anyway)

Emily with Scot on our first day at the camp

Climbing up the mountain

Us girls just before leaving for site seeing

Abi and Emily at the restaurant

Emily, Megan and Rebekah

Rebekah and Rode :)

Heather with Felipe and Louisiana

Sarah sitting amongst all our luggage at the Lima airport on our way home.

Well I've seen these pictures a "hundred" times and I could look at them a hundred more times and I don't think I could get tired of them! Some of these pictures were taken by Bethany, I believe.
I'll see if there's anything else to post soon. Drama camp is in a few weeks. So once the week is over I'm sure I'll have a nice sized post ready to go. :)

"For if whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."

Romans 14:8

Church Christmas Tree

Here's an kinda old post that I meant to post several weeks ago. We were at church the day after Thanksgiving to play games (basketball and ping pong) so set up and decorated the Christmas tree while everyone could help us. I had fun taking pics. Heather and Bonnie

Dad, hanging up some decorations

Jenna, Emily, Heather and Mrs. Noonan watching the tree being decorated

Sarah

More Candle Making

Nate and Ollyce came over last night for supper. After supper Ollyce made some candles. :) So here are more pictures.

These should be at the end (sorry) but better out of order then not at all. These three are the candles that Ollyce made. The first is Hollyberry.

This white one is really pretty cause we put sparkles on top.

This is the candle that Nate was trying to make stripes with. You can actually see some stripes. But instead of being white with red stripes, it is pink with red stripes.

16 drops of red die

Pouring the wax into the jar

The finished product of the first candles we made. I don't much like the brown.

Bottles of fragrance (Christmas Cheer, Cappuccino Mocha, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Sweet Snow, Cool Mocha and Hollyberry)

Heating the jars in the oven (so that they are not cold when you put the hot wax in it)

Nate wanted to try putting stripes on the sides with red die.

Soy Candles

Mom ordered I think 50 pounds of soy wax to make candles with. She also ordered all the jars, wicks, stickers, fragrance, die etc. Everything you need to make your own candles. So the evening that everything arrived we started making a a few. It was fun but we need to figure out how many drops of die to put in the wax. When we thought we were getting a deep red...we got pink (after it dried) and when we thought we were getting a fairly dark brown...we got a light brown (that is not a very pretty) color. :( But anyway here are a few pictures.Melting the wax

Waiting for the wax to dry.

We put the extra wax in votives.

The scale that we weighed the wax with.

And again, letting the wax dry.