Week update

I realized a lot has happened in our lives in the past week. First of all, we had Valentine's Day. The men of the house bought the ladies flowers. Maci and Eliana carried them all over the house. They were pretty excited. We have known since the first week that they love flowers! Hopefully they felt treasured.

We then went to St. Louis for a long weekend. We helped Tom and Connie a bit on Saturday. Sunday on the way to church our truck nearly lost it's back tire. To make a long story short the back passenger tire had snapped three of the six bolts that hold it on and a nearly tragic situation occurred. Tom and I fixed that (and took out the spacers that were causing the problem) the whole time thankful that it was not worse than it was. Sunday evening we went to the Queen of Sheba Restaurant in St Louis and had a great time ordering a couple of combo platters. There were some people that spoke Amharic to the girls. We enjoyed watching the girls reconnect (with language, music , and food). The rest of the family did alright with the food as well (first time for the older kids and in-laws). If you are near St. Louis I'd recommend for the experience. They just opened last fall and we'd love to see them there for years to come.

Monday we went to the zoo. It was great to see the girls experience seeing the animals live for the first time. We really enjoyed are time there...even though the lions were not found. We did get to the zebras, penguins, and polar bear (thanks Eric Carle for the exposure).

All in all it was a great week! I posted some pics from Valentines and the Ethiopian Restaurant as well as from the zoo. Just click on the pictures below. Hope you enjoy.

zoo

Valentines week

By the way...we have since found out the tomorrow means "go somewhere" to Eliana...as in "tomorrow we will ..."