WEEK 9 ~ FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2015

School progress reports came home with Alex today and we are very thankful that the second semester of high school is going as good as the first semester did. We also were able to enjoy the PRC Winter Concert this week. It's the first concert we have attended and we enjoyed it quite a lot. I didn't take my regular camera and then regretted it...so I asked around to find out who took pictures and was thankful for Linda K. who graciously shared her pictures with me so I didn't have to use my iPhone pics :)

I took a video to share with Mark, Oma & Opa and Grandma & Grandpa who were unable to attend.

Saturday brought the school fundraising auction and it was nice to have such a great meal and scrumptious desserts by Arie and Helen, followed by some auction fun. I bid on quite a few things but was thrilled when we ended up with the Red Wing Tickets and the KitchenAid Mixer! It was a lot of fun!

Mark left on Monday for a business trip for the week and we looked forward to him coming back on Friday. The week kept us busy with a Sunday School meeting, physio, visits to Mom, a talent show, new student day for Carsten, Dropbox movie and just trying to keep the household up. Keeping busy helps make the time pass quickly.

It's hard to imagine that we have another child to register for high school. This week Kim and I visited PRC and Carsten was able to experience a little bit of high school on New Student Day. Thanks Kim for coming as Mark since he was away :)

After New Student Day, we raced back to elementary school so we could watch Savannah and Carsten participating in their Talent Show. 

Savannah's Art 

Carsten in the Band

Piano Solos by both Savannah and Carsten

Carsten's Handmade Puppet Collection

Kim, Amanda and I also went to see the much anticipated Dropbox movie this week. The DropBox is a documentary about Pastor Lee Jong-rak and his heroic efforts to protect his community's most vulnerable children, those who would be abandoned in the streets to die. Pastor Lee installed a dropbox outside of his home, allowing mothers to leave their babies in this safe haven. What a movie...While it was only supposed to be showing in theatres for two days, it was sold out and they ended up adding more showings.