Company

As I mentioned last week, we celebrated Josiah’s birthday a bit early because we were having out-of-town company coming into town that weekend! We hadn’t seen my Abuela, Abuelo, Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins since Christmas, so they decided to come up and celebrate with us!

Can you guess which day of the week they arrived on? If you guessed Friday, you’d be correct. J There would be an uproar of monumental proportions if our family did not have pizza for dinner on Friday night!

The kids enjoying breakfast together on Saturday morning.

We had a very relaxed day on Saturday. We all enjoyed working on various projects throughout the day. Rubia read a book while I worked on a report about Voodoo in Haiti.

My Aunt worked on her knitting skills.

Abuelo read a book on his Kindle.

And my Uncle, Mom, and Dad had a good discussion on Revelation while Dad finished planning his Sunday school lessons.

Some of the kids braved the cold, snowy outdoors to play for awhile.

J really wanted to go outside, but it was too cold for a little guy like him. He had to content himself with indoor toys and watching from the window.

It appears he’s been eating chocolate again! J

He is such a riot, and a fun guy to have around!

Later in the afternoon, Josiah got to open his presents. He received lots of nice clothes as well as some toys. Cousin E. made himself available to help with unwrapping. J

For Josiah’s birthday dinner, my Abuela made a delicious Puerto Rican feast of platanos maduros, pasteles, bread with butter, Spanish rice, bacalao con yuca, pork and potato stew, and pineapple punch. It was muy delicioso!

For his birthday cake, Mommy made a four layer chocolate, whipped-cream-filled cake decorated with chocolate footballs. It tasted like one big Ho-Ho!

After watching the movie “Pendragon,” E and Josiah were inspired to re-enact the final battle scene between Caydern and Artos.

Sadly, our company had to leave on Sunday morning before church. L But we enjoyed our visit with them, and we are looking forward to seeing them again in just a few weeks!