House full!

Thirteen kids plus four parents equals lots of fun!!  Our friends, Joe and Jennifer Germain and seven kids, came down to Homer last week.  Their oldest four and our oldest four had SBA testing with Connections for three days last week, so they came down to spend the week as the kids had a couple hours of testing each day.  While the older ones were testing, Alyssum and Adams had lots of fun with their youngest three!  They didn't have to do school so they thought it was a great break.

It had been almost two years since they had been back to Alaska so it was fun to see how much the kids had all changed.  Amazing how quickly the kids grow up!  The house feels a smaller now with that many big kids!  Legos, games, dolls, movies, outside time, lots of food, and plenty of laughter filled our week!

Joe and Jenn and kids spent almost three years in the Philippines and with that time comes lots of valuable experiences for us to learn from...gardening, raising rabbits, chickens, and goats, feeding their large family in a different country, learning a new language, setting up a house in a village setting, and many more.  Our kids were comparing Tagalog with the language the Germains learned, Cebuano...some similarities and many differences, but it's always fun to try a new language on someone else that may know a few words!

It was a fun week and we look forward to seeing them a little more often this summer!