Play Dates at the Pirkles

After the first of the year we started something new with children from the Children's Center.  This idea came about one day when Liz jokingly told the girls they would be welcome to take some of the kids for a day if they would like.  Well,  Rebekah and Sarah loved this idea and asked if they really could;  thus began "Play Date at the Pirkles".   For the past four Saturdays,  we have gotten two children and had them spend the day with our family.  They have done everything from bake to have Nerf wars.  Here are some pictures from the first four weeks.  They pretty well speak for themselves so I will keep my commentary to a minimum.  

Week One: Merrily and Genesis

Merrily and Sarah painting

Rebekah and Genesis painting

Precious girls at naptime

Week Two: Ana and Maria

Baking cookie bars with Rebekah

Making necklaces and bracelets

Painting nails with Sarah

Week Three: Ronnie and Felix

Started they day right with biscuits and chocolate syrup

Baking snickerdoodles with Rebekah

For some reason I didn't get pictures of the painting and other activities with these two guys.  Perhaps it was because we were too busy with the Nerf wars:)

Week Four: Kevin and Juancito

Baking chocolate banana muffins with Rebekah.

Enjoying one of the benefits of baking.

Kevin was my helper with the laundry also.

Juancito preparing for a Nerf war.

Kevin is ready too.

We have had such fun times spending time with these kiddos and I think they have enjoyed it also.  One of the favorite things so far is to be able to bake goodies to take back and share with all the others at the children's center.  Looking forward to sharing many more Saturdays with many more children.

Perfect Way to end Christmas Day

After our day together we headed down to the Children's Center for a perfect ending to our Christmas day.  I have included a lot of pictures, so I will try not to include too many words.  I think the pictures speak for themselves

 Thanks to The Freeman CP group from our home church, we were able to buy food for the meal of choice for Christmas dinner.  The children chose Chinese rice with shrimp and watermelon.  Not our thoughts of a typical Christmas meal, but that is what they wanted and that is exactly what they got.  

Then we got to have fun and serve homemade ice cream and brownies.  

Just in case that wasn't enough sugar we had bags of candy for each of them also.

Then we just got to hang out for awhile.  

This is Iain and a couple of the children.  Iain and his wife, Liz, started and run the children's center.  

Blessed to be able to share some Christmas joy with these precious ones.  Hoping this will become a new Pirkle Christmas tradition for as long as the Lord has us in Honduras.