Surprises, Scary Movies and Surfing

Ok, so it’s been a busy past couple days so here we go:


-We are all staying at Matt and Brooke’s, and so far Justine hasn’t broken anything (ha ha love you McClains).  It's been difficult, but I've constrained her from jumping on the furniture ;). But yes, Brooke, thigns are going well here...still even have both of your dogs! (ha ha ha) It's a little easier hanging out in a house that a family lives in. Last Sunday we invited Corey and Eddy over for dinner, but we had to go in between the 3 aparments (Corey moved into the third one, so we were all right in a row) trying to find enough cups, silverware and a plate :)

Thursday at Bible club I was sitting on the couch with Dayana and Gabriella. There are some things that I’ve been trying to talk to specifically these two about, and I had my Spanish Bible with me, so I asked for their help in critiquing my Spanish, then went through the gospel with them. Hopefully it wasn’t painfully obvious, but I tried to emphasize how you can’t find the joy and peace you are looking for in the world, but in God alone. Please pray for what was said to take root in their hearts!
That night we had a lot of fun with Gabriel. He kept following me around so I ended up giving him a piggyback ride and running around with him. It was so much fun!

love his face in this picture :)

Afterwards, when all the kids were gone and we were waiting for his mom, he played “maestro” (teacher) with us. Corey, Natalie and I were sitting on the couch and Gabi and Sofia stood in front of us and would “Como se dice _____ en Ingles” and we had to raise our hands (he emphasized this a lot and wouldn’t take our answer unless our hand was raised! :]). It was actually really good practice for us and working on our Spanish!

Cute kid, right? Love Dennis :) ha ha

And Natalie, that night, informed everyone who would listen that my birthday was the next day. I tried to be sooo careful so that no one would find out! I even took it off facebook. Probably a week or two after I got to Costa Rica, I think I was talking about how Natalie was 6 years older than I am to Matt. He asked how old I was, then when my birthday was. I ONLY told him because I KNEW that they would be gone for the States by then, and he’s a guy he’ll forget. Well he didn’t. (Matt I don’t understand how in the world you remembered!!!!). Anyways, Don Victor told me he was coming with eggs on Friday and laughed when he saw my face. Yes. I know what you do with them. And no, it’s not going to happen.

Friday night Corey and Eddy came over and we were standing outside. They started singing happy birthday so I made a dash for the door to hide inside. Natalie blocked me and then shut the door, thus locking us out. We remembered that the McClain’s had said to get a screw driver, pop off the screen, and slide the glass panes (there’s about a dozen, 3x15”) out and slip in. So we got the screw driver from Juan and since Matt had said that they opened up Ethan’s window, we did that one (plus it was dark and hard to see any other windows). So Corey took out all the screws, but we could only get the first two glass panes off. Plus, there was a printer on the other side of the window, so it was a weird angle. I volunteered to crawl through anyways, though while Corey was getting the screen off we were talking about horror movies and now I was about to try and crawl through a small window into a dark house. Sounds like the beginning of a scary movie, right? They always kill off the minorities first… ;) ha ha. Anyways, barely made it in, landed gracefully (and by gracefully, I mean I fell over the printer) inside and unlocked the door without running into a masked psychopath with a machete. Yay! ….

Saturday, we went to the beach with the guys, and Corey bought a long board which are 9 feet long. Eddy said these were easier to learn how to surf on, so he instructed us what to do and we set out. I went first. The first two times that I caught a wave I didn’t stand up, but the third one I did and rode it all the way to shore. Maybe I should start a “Christian Surfers” Montana! Yeah! …Great idea…

That night the girls through a surprise party and the McKays and the guys came over (once again) for dinner, cake and a movie. I am very blessed :)