Busted Lip Again

Please be in prayer for our little guy! This morning we got the dreaded call that no one wants to get. The school called and said that Ethan was hurt and they wanted us to come up to the school. They said he bumped his lip. We were not expecting it to be so bad. Anyway, he busted both of his lips pretty bad and got his nose pretty good too. This time he is closing his mouth and swallowing and he even ate some dinner and drank from a cup without a straw. So...this bump isn't as bad as the one that happened at camp back in August but it looks worse. Pray that it will heal up quickly and not leave huge bruises for too long. Here is a picture of Ethan taken tonight. Alot of the swelling has gone down. He has been a trooper!

After School Snack

Here we are with the kids at one of our favorite places - Coffee Heaven!
We had several errands to do so while we were out this day we decided to stop by and get the kids a muffin and we got our Latte/Mocha fix.


Chocolate Muffins - the best.


Here is a little bird that got in some how and lives in the mall I think. It was out looking for food while we were there and we decided to give it a little piece of muffin.

Our Apartment

Here are some pictures of our apartment. I thought some of you might want to see our place.


This is our living room. The windows above the couch is where the cat fell out. Just in case you don't know the story behind that statement just know that the cat is OK!


Here is our dining room and office.


This is a view of our balcony and our cat really loves to go out and sit on our grill to see everything.


Here is a view from our living room looking towards our kitchen and Ethan's room. On the left side is the door to our bathroom and on the right is the door to our laundry closet.

Mikaila's Room

This is Mikaila's room! It isn't finished yet. We are planning on painting it this winter and then we plan to hang stuffed water animals on the walls to go along with her fish theme. She picked this theme over princess stuff! We were kind of surprised but she really likes it.

Ethan's Room

This is Ethan's room! It is not complete yet. We are planning to paint it this winter and then hang some things (stuffed animals) on the wall. We tried to get a theme going of animals and such for his room but he loves cars so much that we had to get him a road rug. Once it is finished we will post new pictures.

Our Kitchen

Ojcow National Park - near Kraków

We went and visited this national park a couple of weeks ago with our old language teachers and their son. We had a good time and got to take some really neat pictures. I haven't gone through all the pictures yet so I might post some more later.


Mikaila and Ethan with Bryan. This is by a little waterfall that went into a special area of ponds where they breed/grow fish.




Miakaila and Ethan with Maciek.

Dzień Pieczonego Ziemniaka

Day of the Baked Potato!

The kids school had a party at the end of September and the theme was Potatoes. They had different games and things to do - all having to do with the potato. Unfortunately, the battery in my camera died after only a few pictures so I didn't get many. The kids are wearing hats with potatoes on them that they made in art class.

Interesting Story

OK...Here is one for the books. A few weeks ago we were invited over to a church members house for some coffee and tea. They wanted us to come at 7pm which is about when we start getting the kids ready for bed so I was not excited about that, but we couldn't really do anything to change it. (Don't ask why!) We only planned to stay about an hour and a half at the latest. Anyway, we had to take a taxi because our car was broken AGAIN! People usually get dressed up for these kinds of visits so we did. When we pulled up the man was outside working on his car with his son in dirty jeans and a sweatshirt. We felt overdressed! Especially when we go inside and the woman is in a sweatsuit type outfit as well. So we are having kawa i herbata (coffee and tea) and enjoying the time when all of the sudden the woman feels something on her side and proceeds to the bathroom. At one point all 3 of them (man, wife, and son) are in the tiny bathroom all doing something that we are beginning to wonder about. The man came out and was holding a bottle of what I think was cologne and he asked me to come in where they were! I'm like...Co? (What?) The woman pokes her head out and motions me to come in there so I give Bryan a look and then get up and go into the already crowded bathroom. The woman shows me on the side of her abdomen that there is a tick! They want ME to pull it out! I couldn't believe it. I did get it out though and afterwards the woman gave me a great big hug and kiss on the cheek. Well, to top off the evening we ended up staying way later than we wanted (didn't get home until about 10pm). It was a very interesting evening to say the least but they are really nice people and we greatly enjoyed getting to know them better.