Amelia Bedelia comes to visit!

  It's been a busy several months! God has been faithful as always. :) It was good to be home for my grandparents' baptisms in March. God always exceeds anything that I could have imagined. I bless God for what He has done in their lives and I can't wait to see what he has in store for them in the future! I also just want to say how much that I appreciate my church family in Tremont! Especially, my dish washing ladies. :) I love you all so much and I am so thankful for you! :)
  I was blessed with the opportunity a few months ago to take care of Steph and Joel's children for two weeks. We had a great time together!  I would imagine that it was probably a little bit strange for them to have their teacher come and live with them for two weeks. I think it would have been a little strange for me as a child. Especially since all of my teachers lived at school :) :) Anyway, I now have a much deeper appreciation for single mothers that work full time!
PS: We now have a pet chicken named "Josefina" :) Pictures will follow soon! :)

My latest painting :)

 

Coffee filter butterflies :)

Ice cream activity :) They had to invent new flavors and then think of a good selling price.

My new stage for reader's theater! :)

Amelia Bedelia came to visit last week :) 

My stool  :)

Here we go! :)

At Gallego's with Candi, Aaron, and Marcos :)

Breakfast of champions! :)

A little too early in the morning for Diego :)

Hair gel, Charades, and a bright yellow feather duster!

My latest "bulletin board." The kids had to write an object in the middle of the flower and then wrote describing words on the petals.

Joining in on a game of "verb charades." This is me eating a cheeseburger... :) SO fun! :)

The newest addition to our classroom...a feather duster! :)

Writing with hair gel and food coloring! :)

Julissa

Teaching! :)

Me being overly excited about verbs... :)

Giezzy being his adorable self :)

Christmas Party!

Today was the last day of the semester! We had a party to celebrate and the kids dressed up in Christmas costumes. :)

All of the "presents" under the "tree" :)

The cutest Christmas tree I've ever seen! :)

That's a candy cane if you can't tell :)

Sooo cute :)

Yaneli :)

This is a note that I recieved from one of my students :) It translates like this : I love you Miss Frank! I like your class and I like that you teach me English and Art. I really like how you decorated your classroom and I like your clothes :) :)

We cut out snowflakes yesterday and I hung them up in my classroom :) Most of my students have never seen snow before.

E Coli...It's what's for dinner.

I believe that it is safe to assume that I have vomited more in the last four months than I have in my entire life collectively. :) However, I suppose that if you live in Mexico, you will inevitably experiance some degree of gastrointestinal distress on a regular basis! ;) Almost everyone here was sick last friday from ingesting some suspicious looking mole and rice. Never. again.

Mexicans don't really celebrate Thanksgiving unfortunately. None the less, we put on a huge dinner here at CVE. During the week, I decided to expose my English students to some American culture :) I even had them churn butter one day! :) It was super fun! :)

Our homeade bread and butter :)

I filled a mason jar with heavy cream and we all took turns shaking it until it turned into butter.

oops :)

Our trip in the Mayflower :)

How can you restist that face??? :)

Belinda and I :)

Update

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I have posted anything so I thought I would give a brief update. We have had a very difficult five weeks or so here. As I have come to expect from my God, my life has been turned inside out and all of "me" has been shaken out and replaced by a need for my savior like never before. I was thinking a few days ago about all of the upheaval in my life and I couldn't help but reach the conclusion that I am thankful. So incredibly thankful. Sometimes, in this life, we have to walk through the wilderness. I'm in the wilderness right now. It's a time when we know that we can not take one more step, breathe one more breath, without Jesus.

I am doing a Beth Moore bible study right now called El Discipulo Amado. In her book, she talks about not being afraid to be alone with God. When I think about all of the situations that we have had here, I am grateful to have been surrounded with such an incredible group of believers. However, I stand alone before my God. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. I should be so far out on a limb with my God that if I even try to walk by sight and not by faith, I'm dead.

I also wanted to thank my church family in Tremont for being so supportive! I have recieved so many encouraging cards and letters! :) Thank you! You are all such a blessing to me! I know that so many of you are praying already but please continue to pray for us here as we fight for these precious children.

"Bendito sea Jehova mi roca, quien adiestra mis manos para la batalla y mis dedos para la guerra." Salmo 144:1-2

"Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives me." Mathew 18:5

Recent Happenings :)

Angel being adorable :)

Kali and I :)

Saturday baseball fans :)

All of the girls :)