Weekend Wrap Up ~ Valentine's Day Edition

Happy post Valentine's Day!  

In no paticular order (because I was too lazy too re-arrange photos), here are some photos from our Valentine's Day & our decorations.

Isabella

Brook has a cool reflection of the mountains in her sunglasses in this photo!

Coolest girls in Bogota!

Me & Brook :)

Isabella and I :)

These flowers were leftover from Isabella's party last weekend.

This is a banner I made of old Valentine cards.

They are from family members that I received as a child.

I loved re-purposing them here in Bogota!

Our table setting for breakfast

I used scrapbook paper for placemats.

We had heart shaped waffles and some with strawberries in them.

I bought this pillow before Christmas on a clearance rack to have for the Valentine season.

The girls received roses at school Friday from friends and teachers.

Nothing says Valentines like doilies and heart shaped cookie cutters!

Bathroom hand towels

Artwork by Brook

Kitchen counters

Artwork by Brook hanging on our refrigerator

( I don't have any by Isabella here).

Valentine candy ~ red hots and sweetarts

The girls received a small Valentine bag from us with soft, butter socks, candy, and kleenex.

Our breakfast menu was waffles, bacon and cantelope.

Our lunch menu was chicken rotel, (plain noodles), salad, garlic bread and for dessert we had chocolate covered strawberries and strawberry bars.

Avery and I went out for the first time in a long time on Valentines to see a movie.  We saw the new Nicholas Sparks movie, The Choice, or in espanol it is called El Nombre de Amor.  Most movies have very different titles here!  Anyway, the movie was in English (with Spanish subtitles) and we bought 2 tickets, 2 drinks, popcorn, and a hot dog for $14 USD!  Best bargain in town!

Hope you all have a good day!

Friday Favorites ~ Week 7

We do have some incredible sunsets from our view every evening.

Celebrating at Isabella's party was a highlight of the week.  Yes, it was technically last week, but the clean up and after activities went into this week!

Because I was literally exhausted by Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday was a pajama day!  I didn't leave the house all day and this was after 9 hours sleep from the night before.

We have upgraded our Hulu subscription to watch shows without commercials and it has been well worth the money!  If we want to watch a tv show from the states, this is our source to watch it from on our computer.

Hope you all have a happy weekend!  I begin the moms ministry again this morning, have a baby shower to attend this afternoon, then a restful Saturday with possibly teammates coming over for dinner, and Valentine's Day on Sunday!

Brook's Greek Olympic Games

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Brook's class just finished a study on Greece in Social Studies and her class had an Olympics Day last week and Avery and I were able to go watch the events.

Brook's presentation on Athens was hanging on the wall outside of her classroom.

Our Olympic star

Her team

Her first event was golf :)

She also participated in the team relay race.

This is Brook's class (Brook is on the back row) with her teacher (on the front row in the blue shirt).

Random Photos

This is the blog post full of the random photos that don't really have a blog place of their own!

1 ~ Bogota Traffic

This particular view is from our apartment balcony.  This is like at 10am on a Tuesday.

2 ~ MTW Evaluation time

Pray for us as we reflect and look ahead at this year and next.

3 ~ Brook' school work

This is her worksheet on the brain.

4 ~ Living in Bogota

This was the fog one morning last week.

And me just riding in our elevator because that's what you do when you live on the 16th floor.

5 ~ Isabella's field trip last week

Can you spot our gringo?  

6 ~ Brook's school presentation on Christmas in France

That is the director of the school in the Christmas vest listening to their presentation.

Avery and I were at the school to hear all the presentations and Avery was making the kids laugh!

7 ~ Fires in Bogota

We have seen many fires lately around the city from our balconies. There has been a shortage of rain, so things are quite dry here.  One day, the fires affected the girls in their commute home from school

Hope you enjoyed some randomness of our life here!