Usually on Friday, Finn's friend Thiago (Chee-Ah-Go) comes over to play. His mom and Finn's mom work on various Brazilian crafts together.
Jill is the administrator for the student council this year. She and 15 high schoolers are planning many of the activites and fund raisiers for the year. "Western Day" was part of the Spirit Week. Always interesting to create costumes out of what we have here. There are no costume stores, huge departments at Wal Mart or used clothing shops. Jill was also the resident french-braider of the day.
Finn had some health issues this month, culminating in many hours in the ER room on a Friday afternoon. He had bronchitis and pneumonia. We thank God we caught it early enough. This climate is rough on the lungs. After various medications and treatments, his breathing was clean and healthy. Just in time to help Tim harvest the red bananas from our tree! 
We hunted for the perfect rocks one Friday after school. We scrubbed them down, dried them in the sun, and had fun painting them. They are now used for various door stops around the house.
"HEY...do you want some bread?" As soon as he gets within earshot of our house, Antonio wants to sell us his bread--from his bike! He delivers fresh bread to our door each Friday afternoon. 
Stew taught the elementary chapel one Friday morning. All about ants! Jill leads the worship for the K-6th graders two Fridays a month. The kids are learning new songs and new actions, and I think all the them would highly recommend Jana Alayra's music!
So, our eventful Fridays come to a close, but not without try a new food item? Here we have: monster Brazilian green beans!
6 comments:
What a great blog! George looks like a real athelete jumping over those hurdles! Sure brought back memories of our time together there in June-the bread man on his bike, Finn's smile, Jill figuring out how to cook something "new" and Tim harvesting from his yard! God bless and keep you every single minute in all you are doing there in His name! Love you, love you!
Great update, guys! Loved the month of Friday's theme. Sounds like a happening place. We'd love to visit some day.--Brad C
Holy cow! Those are some serious green beans...are they actually tender enough to eat? :)
Thanks for the pics of life in your neck of the woods! We love you!
Shilo
I just love you guys & am always smiling from ear to ear when I read your blog & picture your lives down there. By the way, I owe you a huge apology for not writing you a response to your mega sweet comment on our blog!! I have thought of you often & been meaning to write - and well, am just flat out without excuse! haha. You light up lives, be it in person or through your writing on blogs.... sending you a huge hug from "home." :) Praise Jesus Finn is doing better - it must be an entirely new kind of scary when your kids are going through something like that in a country that handles medical emergencies (maybe??) different than how things would play out here. So glad you are all well & still enjoying life to the full right where God has you! :) Rock on - how'd the bananas turn out, and the beans? ;)
P.S. Wish I could give ya some apples from greenbluff...
So good to see/read an update on you guys. Can't believe how big your boys are getting! We're so glad to hear that Finn is doing better, what a blessing. We've been doing a bit of western wear around here too, turns out you can do a lot with bandanas! :)
Enjoyed your blog update as usual!
You do have a lot going on that's for sure. How fun to be able to try new and wonderful things, like the delicious looking beans and red bananas. Didn't like the bug though - I just really don't like bugs. The bugs are what keeps me from coming to visit... LOL
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