LOVING being HOME

It has been SO WONDERFUL to be HOME!!

We have ENJOYED...

Lake Lanier (a short 5 min. drive from our house)

Pioneer Trek

 BEFORE

 Caleb's Ma & Pa

 Haleigh's Family

 Sugar Hill Stake Youth

 Live "Band" for square dancing

 Square dancing

 The handcarts

 AFTER

A visit to Kids II - 

the company Fred works for -

 and took a trip down the slide.

Had a little green visitor on our

front porch window

A Welcome Back party with DEAR friends

SENIOR pictures for my BEAUTIFUL

Haleigh

LUNCH at Cracker Barrell

It is SO GOOD to be home!!!

Dim Sum Farewell Lunch

Cathy treated us and Nicole to DIM SUM -

Cantonese Cuisine - for lunch.

Making choices from the menu.

Eli eats his lunch

 DIM SUM

 Cathy, Steph, Haleigh, Caleb, Eli, Nicole & Ammon

 CUTE Eli!!

THANKS for a LOVELY lunch Cathy.

Farewell Breakfast

A few friends took us out for a farewell breakfast.

Maddie, Haley, Denise 

Caleb and Maddie

Winnie, Joyce and Daniel

SWEET Daniel

Sunnee

Olivia

 MY!  How I love these ladies!

FHE for Sisters

The Filipina Sisters in the Branch

invited our family for Family Home Evening

for sisters at the church flat.

 The Elders gave a great spiritual thought and lesson.

The sisters shared what they appreciated most 

about being a member of the church.

 They fixed a BEAUTIFUL 'buffet'.

 Nemia - at the far left - is the only sister we did not 

get an individual picture with.  All of these sisters,

with the exception of Cathy, are working as

Helpers here in Hong Kong.  They AMAZE me!

 We learned that Filipinas point to things 

using their lips.  We laughed so hard

as Caleb demonstrated how to do it.

 LOVE these ladies!!

 Eleanor Melgar

 Gena Samar

 Lea Lapido

 Yoly Andal

 Girlie

 Cathy Cheung

Mary Jean

We learned SO MUCH from these amazing ladies.

Junk Boat Trip 2012

 Our friend Kale, Ammon, Caleb and Haleigh

heading out to catch the junk boat we rented

for the day.

 Our junk

 Loading the boat

 ALL of the kids, including the 3 grown

ones on the dock, were excited for the

journey to get under way.

 My 3 sailors

 We put in anchor at Lama Island

to enjoy the water.  Here the kids

are getting ready to jump off the

top of the junk.  They were waiting
for an adult to go first.
I snapped this picture and ran and jumped in!
Let the FUN begin!!

We thought it very strange that we were the only private

boat out on the water on a Holiday.

When we returned to Discovery Bay we learned

of the "NO SWIM" warning for Lama Island

because of SHARK INFESTED WATERS!!

The day prior to our excursion, a group

out on their junk encountered a 12 foot shark.

THANK GOODNESS it was a 

Whale Shark which has no teeth

and only eats algae -- AND

THANK GOODNESS we did NOT see it!

The poor thing would have died from a heart attack

from all the SCREAMING.

FUN day that turned in to a CRAZY story!!