Our First House Helper

We know you like to see pics of people we have told you about... so here is Thao, our first house helper. She got a new job as an accountant so had to quit working for us but a great friendship was formed.

Fellow Wynners!!

We had an awesome time with all of our friends. What an encouragement they were! They helped Kim by being English partners at the school and got to meet all of our new friends. It was fun getting to share our life here in PR with people from home!

Happy Easter!

Easter was a little unconventional here but still memorable. We had a nice family worship service over breakfast. Then we attended the wedding of a friend. We even colored eggs - real ones - and hid them. The only problem was that Maelyn got hungry after the first round and ate several of them so that cut down on how many we could hide and seek! The day was topped off with a visit from friends from our home town - they showered us with gifts...including Easter candy and chips and salsa!!

Disco Ball put to use...

We had a few students over for dinner one night. After the meal we enjoyed dessert under a spinning disco ball! Maelyn loved all the attention and even learned a few new dance moves!!

A girly girl

One of our best friends here is a manicurist and spoils Kim and Maelyn each week with beautiful art on their fingers and toes (usually all for free!) Maelyn loves it as you can see in the pictures. I'm not sure we'll be able to afford this new hobby once we return to America! We joke about Maelyn being the only kid who asks for a manicure gift certificate for her third Birthday!
She also loves to pretend to do Mama's nails at night! It's a fun game till she pokes her with that pencil!! Ouch!

Mmmm...yummy!

One of the new foods we've tried is squid. Maelyn actually really likes it, mama can tolerate it, and daddy detests it!! In America, kids play with plastic hotdogs and hamburgers, here they pretend to cook plastic squid! Maelyn loves to put plastic squid in a pan and get dinner ready!

Beach Bums

As you know, our town is actually near a nice and quiet beach. It is beautiful with mountains on the horizon. There is also a resort in town that has come to know us by name since they have a great pool and serve pizzas - the only western food in town. Maelyn loves the beach as well! Our only regret is that we run out of time to go and enjoy it as often as we should!! The people here tell us we don't go to the beach enough. They go almost every morning at around 5:00 am to exercise. By the way, the guy with all the muscles with Maelyn is Jeff, hard to recognize with his shirt off. And that is the whole fam in the fishing boat. In the morning there are dozens of these little boats scattered in the ocean spreading their nets.

Our first restaurant in PR

Here are some pics of our first try at a restaurant in PR... It was high on ambiance. You know it is time to get concerned when the waiter tells you that the specialty of the day (meaning that's all they have) is forest animals. What is a forest animal anyways???? Actually it turned out really good and while you are waiting for your food they give you a fishing pole!