Church community at its best...

Here are some pics from our Church here in Ulsan... Bloom (where you are planted).  We are nothing fancy and we don't have any staff/pastors but we all gather together and stream in a sermon from the states and sing some songs together... it is amazing but the best part are the people and how we love on each other.  Here are some pics of a little party that we put together for a couple that just got married.  We wanted to make their new beginning in this new country special... so we had a party.

Here is a pic of our Bloom group...
 

 

Here is the bride and groom...who actually dated in high school and went their separate ways for many many years... and just found each other again earlier this year and got married last month.  They are so cute and have a great story.

 

 

I was in charge of the cake and the present... so here is my first wedding cake... he he he

 

 

 

And here is the gift... I sent them an email a while back and asked them to send me the names of their favorite places to go/eat/shop/etc.  And then I (with some help of friends) went around and took pics of these places/things and using these pics made them look like letters that spelled out their last name... which was really long but it turned out cute.

B- was logs of the building that is their favorite restaurant on the sea side
R - we had to throw some kimchi in the picture and this was taken on the floor of my condo where she always sits for bible study
O - a rose from the compound... to emphasize "Bloom" and all the flowers in Ulsan
U - This is a picture of the tree that is on one of their favorite walks near their house... I really did not like the way it turned out so that is why we took a pic of the gang (first picture) in the shape of a U.
S - the slide right out side where we meet for church at the compound
S - The Korean flag... that one is obvious
A - Greg works with Blake and this is a picture of the tower on their first rig here in Ulsan
R - They love to go to Ilsan beach... hence their amazing tan... and so this is the sand at the beach
D - And this is their bedroom window (turned sideways)

 

Pierce's pics at school...

Pierce's school has a wonderful website where the teachers are encouraged to take pics through the day and post online so the parents can see what the kids are up to during the day... Here are some of those pics that I taken off of the website...

The first set of pics were taken on a field trip to the Teddy Bear Museum.
 

 

 

 

 

Pierce so proud with his drawing in art class.

 

 

This is Pierce's class picture this year... they are really well done and I love them.  The kids were encouraged to wear something from their home country or Korea and bring a prop of their liking.

 

 

 

 

 

Music Class... looks like fun, right?

 

More favorites...

I told you so... here are more favorites... more favorite moments for sure.

These brothers were made for each other... I asked Pierce just the other day what did we ever do without Asher... he said "I don't know".

Ready for another hike... it takes a lot of bags to get out of the house but so worth it.... sorry honey.

Aunt JuJu to the rescue AGAIN... Asher grew out of the bumbo and this mini bathtub is excellent... he loves it.

More lovin...

Sweet baby bubbie wearing big brothers clothes... he looks just like Pierce to me.

International Day at HFS... a fun day where the moms brought a home cuisine and shared the kids and staff... Us Americans brought Macaroni and Cheese (in little containers), mud pie cupcakes, and chocolate chip cookies.

 

 

Pierce was enjoying the Aussie table with his teacher.

 

This past month was Sara May's birthday... on her birthday I was finally able to read the pages in her Journal that she wrote to me.  My sweet Sara, oh how I miss you.

 

 

These moments are slowly fading away.. when he falls a sleep in my arms... but when he does I hold him just a bit longer each time before putting him in his bed.

During Korean class one day Pierce made these... not sure what they are called but one is me, one is Asher and one is Pierce... can you guess who is who?  I asked again where is Daddy and Pierce said " the teacher would only let me make three and Daddy does not like seaweed anyways" :-)

 

 

After studying International week all week at school... Pierce loved coming home and showing me all the things that they learned.  At school they got extra points for putting the correct animal  on its place of origin... we were studying here.

The bathtub is also a pool... oh fun fun fun fun.

 

A momentous occasion... when ViVi and GD came in August last year they brought Pierce's favorite powdered donuts.  The last bag has been sitting in the freezer and we occasionally get one or two out and enjoy them... well here you have it... the last one... yummy to the last bite.