Family comes to visit.

these are silk worm larva.
Yes, You eat them.(Never again!) Juliana eating silk worm Larva
Shopping And seeing the sights.
Anna and Gwenna with the palace guards.
Mom And Dad great a pre-school class. (We don't even get that dressed up for church)
At a Korean Folk Village.
Grandma with Logan And Emma.

So Two of my sisters(Juliana & Gwenna) and my parents came to Korea for a visit. It was a surprise to me when my parents decided to come. When I left the U.S. my mom told me to go see Korea for her because she didn't think they(mom &Dad) would ever make it over. They came! My Dad 75 and my mom 71 got on a plane and came to Korea. It was a great experience for all of us. Here are some of the highlights.

Sew Much Fun!

How they get the material in the building
Need some thread?


Maybe like a million zippers
It just goes on and on and on.......................

I am ten minutes away from the fabric market here. There is a 5 story building there full of everything you need for sewing plus more. And the prices are great! I get so distracted every time I go I really am not sure what all is there. I find something new every time. My heart is racing just thinking about it.
Here is the down side. I can't understand a word they say. I wish I had the gift of tongues(for purely selfish reasons). So when I go,there is a lot of hand gestures and them holding up calculators with the prices typed out for me.(I feel like such a "stupid american") I am too scared to go alone so I drag Amber along. My awesome, smart, fun, adventurous, beautiful(I hope she reads this) friend who can communicate pretty well with the locals. She even pretends to be happy even though she doesn't sew and it is probably wasted time for her. What a great friend. I need to pay her more.

Happy Halloween!

We made it through another Halloween. Randa was a hippy, Caleb a Mummy, Logan a Jedi knight( note the hair he was very proud.), and Emma was an Egyptian Princess.

Are they slowly cooking us?

So the other day I filled up the van and it came up to 50$ and I thought"only 50$ " What the heck A few years ago i would have sat down and cried. So I was thinking about that story you hear about the frog in the pot. You know the one. Something about slowly cooking the frog without it being aware. In a few years will we even blink at a 90 $ tank of gas. Or maybe will run on corn by then.

Be proud of your burnt toast!

That is what I got from the relief society Broadcast this year. It was a great eye opener for me. We are too tough on ourselves. Sure there is room for improvement but we women need to chill. I loved the broadcast and the company I went with. Thanks for a fun day.(yes, in Korea it took us all day, most of that day in the car. The time went pretty fast because we were solving all the worlds problems) So my sisters,next time you serve up slop for dinner, be proud. It is good enough.

Homecoming

Brief Miranda update~ I went to homecoming on Saturday and had a ball!! My dress, in my opinion, was absolutly gorgeous!!!! I have some pictures on my other blog if you want to go look. There are also pictures of Gender Bender day... an awesome day at school were everybody dressed up as the opposite gender...the boys did a whole lot better job then the girls it was really funny :D

Miranda
p.s. mom wants me to clear up that those boys in the back are NOT our dates, they just brought all of us flowers they are like our bros!!

Improper use of chopsticks!

So this is how my kids use chopsticks. Does this mean we watch to much Harry Potter? Or is it just common sense that a chopstick looks more like a wand the an eating utensil? I don't know.
I m also sad to say that I heard them shouting at least two of the unforgivable curses. Is nothing sacred? Man I love these kids but if I got a letter from Hogwarts tomorrow I would pack their trunks and put them on a train.