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Anticipation and Friendships


We had some friends over on Sunday to watch the Superbowl on our Slingbox. Our boys were so excited. After church they waited. And waited. And waited some more. Finally, around 5 o’clock our time, they were bursting with anticipation. They started looking out the front window, so I went outside and snapped this picture.

Right when I took the picture our friends were pulling up. I’m so thankful for the friendships that we have here in Mexico. It is especially great for our kids to have some good friends.

Our Story Told by Google

I made this video using Google’s Search Story Video Creator. What do you think?

(Thanks to Steve Garfield for the tip and a great tutorial on how to make it.)

Favorite Memory of 2011

The other day I asked my Facebook friends what was their favorite memory of 2011. I got a lot of great answers, and I went back to look for some of my favorite memories of 2011. I was upset because I realized that I didn’t document on the blog very well what was, in fact, my favorite memory of 2011.

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Christmas Goodies

We’ve been busy baking cookies and other goodies today for Christmas. Check out Janell’s recipes on her blog and share some of your favorite recipes.

Our Favorite Movies of 2011


We don’t go to the movies much at all. We rent them every once in a while, especially when our Blockbuster has special deals and we can rent movies for 10 pesos each (about 75 cents).

In 2011, I’m not really sure how many movies we watched. I know I took Nathan a few times, and I know we spent some nights in watching a movie we rented. Our kids love popping popcorn and hanging out in front of the TV (even though we don’t do it often).

So here’s our family’s list of top 5 movies we watched this year.

  1. The Muppets – we just saw this one in the theater, and it was great to relive some childhood memories and share them with our kids.
  2. Gnomeo and Juliet - for a while Nathan said this was his favorite movie ever.
  3. Kung Fu Panda 2 – This movie was fun. I think the new TV series helped us like it even more.
  4. The Smurfs – We had to wait to watch this one until it came out on DVD because we couldn’t find it in English anywhere in Mexico City.
  5. Mr. Popper’s Penguins – The book that this movie is (loosely) based on was part of our curriculum this year. We had to go see the movie in the theater.

What were your family’s favorite movies this year? Let us know in the comments.

PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT: If you like watching movies, or if you just realize there’s nothing good on TV now, you should check out Netflix. Janell has a post on Saving You Dinero about how you can sign up and get a 30 day free trial of Netflix. If you’re thinking about trying it out, please be sure to use her links on her blog and help our ministry.

This post includes affiliate links. If you click and buy something, we get a little commission, but as always I wouldn’t recommend something I didn’t really like.

The Story Behind our Christmas Card

I saw a new app in the App store for the iPad and iPhone, and I wanted to try it out. It’s called Blurb, and it lets you create stories with different media: audio, video, pictures.

So I made this Story behind our Christmas card. I like the app and will probably use it again in the future.

The apps I talk about in the story are: Camera+ and Halftone. And here’s the link for the Blurb app.

Merry Christmas 2011


Here’s our “online Christmas card” for this year. We snapped a pretty good picture today at the mall and then I edited it using the Halftone app to make it like a comic strip.

Anyway, we hope you have a very Merry Christmas this year.

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