Recovery week

We have had a good recovery week here, no encounters with the police, no funerals.  The highlights of our week were that I got to visit with Mom and Dad on the phone, Matt and I went on a run (it's our once a month training routine), we found a great market (Chinese dumplings, veggies, boots, toys), a friend took me and a few of the kids to a indoor play place that is amazingly close to us and not very expensive.

Matt and some neighbors took the older girls out for dinner and karaoke,

and at church we had a missionary homecoming (I just love those) with lots of family visiting and then a potluck afterwards.

This week will be full of Christmas festivities.  I will make sure Klora makes a video, that is more fun than reading about it right?  We will be thinking about you all week and thinking about the great Christmas gathering s back home. We will try to be happy that these good things are happening and not sad that we are missing them.

love you,
Julie