A picture blog to catch you up on the happenings in the Michael Family household.

Chad and Ruth ready for a "date" night.  A very rare but treasured occurance.

We add another daughter to our family for a few weeks every term.  She is a delight to have.



Chad having fun playing Ultimate Frisbee.  He loves to be outside as much as possible on the weekends (rain or shine) He much prefers the rain. 

Kiery wrote me a note while I was in Cairns, Australia.  She made sure daddy took a picture and sent it to me by email.

Chad after an Ultimate Frisbee match.  These clothes are actually "clean" compared to others.

Anna with her friends going down the water slide.  This is a favorite activity for Anna,Kiery and Chad.

Meliah fell asleep as she was texting.  The life of a teenager!

Some of the garden produce comes in large and x-large.  In tok pisin this is called Capsicum.

Anna and Kiery playing in the Bai River with some great friends of theirs, right before a baptism of some of Anna's friends.

Meliah, Anna and Kiery trying to be stair steps.  You can see how much Anna has grown!!!
 



At the Primary Campus they have an annual 2 weeks of what they call Book Festival.  At the end of the 2 weeks they have a Book Parade where all the children and teachers dress up as a favorite character from a book.

Lots of activites happened that afternoon of Book Parade.

Kiery dressed up as Sister Bear from the Berenstain Bears.

Kiery was awarded Honorable Mention for a book mark she made for Book Festival
 

Anna enjoying a bird that she had for a short time.  She is our animal lover. She would love to get another bird, but we shall see.  Didn't have much luck in the 72 hrs that their were 2 different birds here. One got away and the other got eaten by a cat! 

Meliah at 2nd hand store in the nearby town of Kainantu.  A favorite past time especially for teenagers.  It helps with the retail therphy that is needed.



Chad enjoying the best hour of his day.  He LOVES teaching drivers ed this semster.  The kids are learning and having fun.  I think Chad has the most fun.

Chad on a hike and he found a hole and he purposly went in the hole.  He came home so dirty that day.



Chad's face says, " yea I got into this hole how do I get out? See he doesn't need a snowmobile to get stuck. _

Kiery's class did a jump rope presentation for chapel at school.  They did a whole routine set to some cool Christian music. 

During the long Christmas break.  The community comes together as offers a VBS type thing for local village children.  They averaged 500 children a day over a weeks time.  There was about a 100 commitments made for Jesus that week.  The kingdom is growing!!

Chad and Anna and Kiery doing one of their favorite past times.  Playing Wii Just Dance.