Sushi

One of my dreams before I die has been to learn to make sushi (you might think I am joking, but I am not!). Jason and I LOVE to eat sushi. One of my good Thai friends is moving away, but before she left, she invited me to her house this past Friday night to teach me to make sushi. It was so fun! And not as difficult as I imagined. And it was delicious!

My friend, Ying, and her sister, Nat

State Fair

Jason shared his annual turkey leg with Brady this year. Yong-shen and Qing had one, too.

Our Chinese friends - their first time at the fair

Future Cyclones?

Jason thought Mya looked so cute eating her pink strawberry ice cream in her pink outfit

Brady on the climbing wall

Mya is flying high and loving it

Brady's Birthday and Thailand Reunion

Brady's birthday was August 2nd and Sydney's was August 4th. Brady wanted a party on the Dietz' farm so he and his friends (and family) could ride four-wheelers. I think the big boys might have had more fun than the little ones. Most of the boys and their dads . . . and Uncle Jason and Uncle Mitch camped in tents, too. I was glad I was a girl and could sleep in my own bed!

Sydney got an apple

The boys at the party: Cameron & Beck Arant, Sam & Joe Andrews, Ben Ward and Brady (I'm not sure what Mark Ehresman looked like as a kid, but I'm pretty sure Brady is posing just like him as a kid!)

Brady's four-wheeler cake - six years old!

Seriously, you have to check out this cake Kate created from her head - it was impressive!Sydney turned two and had a "nim-n-nim" birthday cake

Ja (left), who visited me in June was in Kansas City to see Bethany Owens (right), who was a daughter of the missionary family I worked with in Thailand. Mook and her family traveled to Kansas City for their family vacation. They all realized they were only three hours from me and drove up two weeks ago to see me. It was such an incredible gift to see them all!

When I went to Thailand for the summer in 1997, Mook became my closest friend. She married Tony Long, an American guy living in Thailand and they now have three girls and live in Florida. The big girls with Tony and Mook's little girls: Hannah, Bethany (named after Bethany Owens) and EstherJason became a human jungle gym

More crazy fun . . . hmm . . . reminds me of Thailand!

The next morning Kelly Conner (who was part of my '97 summer team) and her three girls and Laura Van Roekel (who lived in Thailand with her husband after I did) and her daughter, Grace, came to visit. It was a big reunion in our little living room!

One last picture before they had to goThank you, God, for such a wonderful gift!

See all the pictures here.