Amaya's Birthday and More Fun!

So this past weekend was pretty fun. It was Pj's daughter's, Amaya, birthday this past weekend and so they had a birthday party on base. PJ was quite the entertainer with the kids and they loved him. Amaya looked so cute and we had a great turnout at the party.

They had a ballooon lady who made a bunch of cool looking balloon animals and they also had a face painter who did some pretty amazing faces! Here's Jaida with her face painted. Kind of hard to see, but it was pretty cool. Please notice my hair.... it is getting longer... DAD for you! :)

And here's BJ, Lia, and Jaida riding on the mini merry-go-round at the hotel. Lia is sure growing up fast and is really starting to show her own personality. BJ is an awesome gal. She's the girl that is living with PJ and Lori for the year and we have got to be good friends. We were put in charge of ordering the pizza and handing out the bowls of dessert.

After the birthday party, I headed over to the Sawatka's. They're a young family in our ward. There's Mark, Amanda and little Alexander. He is such a cute boy. He's 3 years old and is hilarious. They invited me over for dinner and to stay the night and ride to church with them the next day. Amanda and I made some homemade maccoroni and cheese with ham and beans. It was a delicious meal and it was fun to get to know the family a little more. After dinner, Amanda introduced me to some amazing cookies that tasted like... well Christmas. We couldn't figure out what else they tasted like, but they reminded me of Christmas. They don't taste like sugar cookies or shortbread, just Christmasy :) I will definately be getting the recipe and introducing ya'll to them when I get home!! :)

Sunday was good. We had district conference and President Ucktdorf spoke. It was mostly directed to Koreans, but still great insight for all of us too. They have really been stressing the need for Koreans to come back to Korea and marry and raise their families here as it will make the church stronger in Korea. A lot of Koreans are staying in America or Canada after their education and either marrying an American or starting a business over seas. So hopefully they listen to the prophets words and come back to their homelands.

Other than that... life is great. School has been awesome! I am loving being with my kids. The Korean teachers have seemed a little bit uptight. Not sure what's up with them, but I found out that Elisa has handed in her resignation and will be done the same time as me. That may be part of the reason the Koreans have been a little different. I have booked my flight to Australia and I am PUMPED!!! I have always wanted to go there and it is weird to think that I will be there in a month!! And that's about it for me.