We had a wonderful week seeing ancient ruins, eating ardente pasta, dancing til our backs ached, racking our brains for foolish skits and songs for the PMA, getting diplomas, making friends, playing soccer, reading exciting prophecies, soaking in Jesus, getting blisters from walking to much, listening to songs we never heard before (thanks to Ready), raising our arms, listening to lots of audios, getting some sleep, drinking wine ...relaxing and having fun.
I had a lovely time. Everyone also helped out with Adrian as Chockie wasn't there. So sweet!
Adrian has already been to 9 countries! Norway, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia and Switzerland!
The Vatican
Adrian with the Vatican in the background 
Inside St. Peters Church
This massive thing is made of wood. There is also lots of gold on the roof.
It was such an impressive building, So big, SO rich
Inspiration at the PMA
Ready, helping the guys with the croaking
the girls
The Colosseum
The police came chasing them after this..lol!
Adrian, Andrea, Angelo, Sam and Sam
Andre, trying to be all fatherly...hehe
An olive tree....the first one I ever saw!
Some Romans...walking around trying to get you to take photos with them(and they only charge you afterwards..tsk tsk)
the catacombs
Old Roman roads
Doesn't it look like he is taking a photo of himself?lol
More ancient ruins
to our right is the place they used to have chariot races
Le Citta d'Italia
Christophe, Angelo, me and Sara
Awesome place...!
The pride swelled in his lungs...i don't know exactly what for though
me and Maweee
Results of a long day of walking
poor Mary being all squished...
Sara don't kill me for putting this pic here, but you look so gorgeous I couldn't resist:D
cute photo no?(no, that's not a duck....just for the record)
PMA class
what da ya know? Three men and a baby! hehe
We went to a club one evening
and used their toilet...
dance night. there were only 2 girls...not that i was bothered....:D:P
the PMA graduation
All the mentors and Andreas
JM practicing his wine principle
Mary, me, Christophe and Sam
the happy bunch
We missed Chockie so much that I was actually really happy to get home and see him again, despite all the fun we had. Adrian was all excited to see his Daddy again that he stuck his tongue out and started spiting. lol.
Thank you Jesus for that wonderful week of fun
Happy Birthday to you....oh Happy Birthday dear Chockie! Happy Birthday to you!(his bday was on the 22nd last month)
I made a special meal for Chockie of Chicken, mashed potatoes (his favorite) a big salad, and two types of cakes: brownies and honey vanilla. (thanks for helping me, Coco!)
this is how we rap our presents in Switzerland....
mitch's kind gift...
Joy, Sybilla, Andre and Sunny entertained us with some nice music
muleckie*Andrea sang us some love songs from his country
Then we got up and danced a lil salsa...etc.
It was a very enjoyable and relaxed evening... :D
I'm going this Saturday to the PMA(Professional Missionary Academy) graduation(in Italy)!!Yay! I'm real glad and excited that I get to go, as last year I did the course but couldn't attend the graduation!
It's so sweet how the Lord does these things for us and rewards us all in due time. :D
So we are guna be gone for a week ...we is Adrian, Andre, Mitch JM and I.
I hope we also get to see some of the sites in Rome, like the Colosseum. We are also going to stay right next to the beach for a few days....:D
Sniffle...Chockie isn't coming with us as he didn't do the course. It will definitely be the longest time we'll be apart since...since the fundrasing trip in Norway. sniff...it's going to be so weird...waking up and Chockie not being there. going to sleep and not cuddling him or being cuddled by him. Adrian is going to have to learn to be mighty cuddly.:P I know i sound all mushy and clingy, but i guess when you learn to share your life with another you share everything. Then when you are just you ...you feel...strange..naked... weird..etc! that's the best way i can describe it. yes, my describing skills could stand some improvement..lol , but I suppose you know what i mean. i'll miss you incredibly...my wuv!
Our sweet baby is teething!! well, its actually already been since the day we came here. It started on our trip. When he teethes he bites everything he can touch. He doesn't like biting his own fingers though, cuz it's too painful. Lol. He started drinking water from a glass cup recently...he loves it!
His new thing is squealing really loudly to get attention. He does it in the middle of a meeting or devotions...any time he knows he can get a smile or two.
When he lays on his stomach he lifts himself on his arms as high as he can and looks around at everything. He is such a curious baby. He looks people straight in the eyes and really tries to reply with whatever baby babble he can come up with.
He already started provisioning. We went to pick up the bread and one of the counter ladies walked by. He gave his winning smile and the lady returned with a big, fat, juicy nut cookie only to hand it over to me, to Adrian's dismay. We had a bit of an argument which was resolved quickly when he realized he didn't have any teeth yet. Anyhow, he received some in the milky so he realized that truly Romans 8:28 does apply, even for babies.
This morning in devotions he was looking at the pic of Jesus and staring. Then he began smiling and being super noisy, getting every conceivable sound out of his throat, disrupting the whole devotions and making everyone laugh. He went on for about 5 minutes with his animated conversation with Jesus till I had to take him out of the room.
He actually started laughing. last night I was being foolish with him and made a silly laugh and he started cracking up. Every time I laughed, he laughed. So adorable! He is growing up so fast!!
Reading his baby quotes
having fun in the jolly-jumper
yep! this is what toys are for!
taking our daily walk
saying hello to the other youngsters in town
snoozing till we reach the llamas.
and yes, there actually are llamas around, I just haven't gotten around to photographing them yet.
cuddling mommie
outside our window on a rainy day (like my photography skills..??:D:D)
this pic is from last weekend that we spent in Zofingen. We made a fire and danced around it, went swimming, played basketball, and soccer, etc. Adrian and I were the cheerleaders.
*no, I have no idea who those goofy guys in the back are
Joy, my violin teacher...yes!! I'm learning violin! I've always wanted to learn and now I finally have the opportunity...yayyy!!!
this is of Adrian completely chewing up his jolly-jumper thingy*nevermind the vacuum cleaner in the back
