Exciting News!

I thought you would all be interested since you know the Coles. Click here for pictures.

Ryan and Anna Corbett

It had been a while since we saw Ryan and Ann, Ketsia and Miriam. I thought you would enjoy the picture.

Corban's determination....

The Wise Man Built His House ....

I was going to put this on the church blog, but it ended up here. So enjoy!!!

Church Picnic

Thursday was Ascension Day-- and in France that means just another May holiday. Aboout 25 of our church people went to Bombannes for a picnic. The day was overcast but no rain! Everyone from the oldest to the youngest had a great time! They are two special guys, by the way :-) The girl in the purple shirt in the right bottom corner picture is Jessica Lunde, our FOFer for this summer. BTW, she is from Minneapolis!

The missing pictures from Mother's Day

I uploaded pix from my camera to iphoto and found that Bob had taken pictures on Mother's Day.  None are with me and the kids, but it does show how we spent our evening.  It was nice and relaxing with friends.  And what you don't see here is that Bob even changed the dirty diaper after going to Walmart for more diapers and a change of pants for Corban!  He was (and IS) my hero!! And it made for a great, relaxing day and I felt very spoiled!!

Time to "Rendre Compte"

Definitely, we have slowed down the last two months-- must be everyone has been super busy :-) Anyway, BRIAN did go way ahead in the number of books read (5 since the last report) but RUTH wins the overall prize for the number of pages. Special acknowledgment must be made to MICAIAH, too, as he read a real big book-- 193 pages, in fact! Bravo!

Total participation-- 7 people. Total books-- 12 Total pages-- 2773

Let's see if we do better now that it is summer!

Newburyport and Rockport, MA

Yesterday, we enjoyed a beautiful and fun day with Tim, Ruth, and the family. We first went to Newburyport to visit the Old South Church that George Whitefield helped found. He is buried in a crypt underneath the pulpit. We were given a tour by a very kind elderly man from the church. You see all the guys standing in the pulpit. Underneath them is the the crypt which we went down to the basement to see (pic with Brian and Stefan). It was a very informative visit.



We then headed to Rockport which is a beautiful little town. Tim and Ruth treated us to lunch in a little restaurant right on the ocean. You can see in the picture of Miriam and me that we had a great view! It was a beautiful day, beautiful scenery, and very enjoyable company. We have lots of good pictures so I will try to get those uploaded on FB so you can see them all.

Mother's Day

The kids choir and the adult choir sang "Forever Fathful" on Mother's Day. This is only a practice, so it isn't even the real thing, and it is only a small part because my batteries went dead!

Mother's Day Daisies!!!

Since no one else seems to have taken any pictures, I thought I would show you the beautiful daisy plant that Dad got me! It is really huge. To quote a very famous person in our family,"What a guy!"
Now, I will take all your suggestions on how to keep it alive!

Mother's Day Photo's

Come on, you guys! I know everyone is into the FB world nowadays, but could we not have a few mother's day photos from everyone on the family blog? 'Twould be really nice!

Gilead Victor Bixby

Check out Jon's post and slideshow on Amy's blog.

Very touching.

To the World's Greatest Moms

Presenting....DR. Aaron Michael Cole

David and Anna

In case you missed us yesterday :-) , we were in Ustaritz for the day taking care of David and Anna Cheloudtchenko. We went down early in the morning and got back home at about 10 last night. Their Daddy had to go into the hospital for 4 days of intensive chemo. We were glad that we were able to help out. We skipped out on the work day here at church, but were happy to see all that they got done without us. Maybe we should do that more often!

McDo's French Style!

"France has a dirty little secret. Despite its role as the defender of healthy eating in the world against “la malbouffe américaine”¹ (American bad eating habits), the country also claims the title as the #1 consumer of McDonald’s products in all of Europe! In fact, the biggest restaurant chain in France is McDonald’s! Does this mean that the French are actually all addicted to Big Macs and super-sized fries? And how do they still stay so thin with all of this grease flowing through their veins?

Drive Thru Service, French Style!

As an American living in France, I must admit that McDonald’s burgers all seem to have a fresher, juicier taste over here. I personally believe this is because McDonald’s France has always committed itself to acquiring its raw ingredients (buns, meat, produce, etc.) from local French providers as much as possible. Not only does this cut down on street protests, but the beef, chicken and potatoes also most likely originated in some French farmer’s backyard and are therefore so much tastier."

copied from the blog "Agathoune!" Hope that isn't illegal but I did so think you would get a charge out of it!

This Week's Visitors!

I thought you might like to see a picture of our visitors this week. We had a great time with everyone. Kristi Colas spent most of her very rainy/cold week here digging through our music to see what we had translated, etc. She hopes to put it on the net some day and we hope she does, too! She also gave piano lessons to Lianala, Tsiry and Hyo Soeng.

Bergmans were rather in and out! We did get a little visiting in but they were on their way to the states for a 6 month furlough. Christina was saying good-bye as she will stay in the states for college.

Babs and Charles were here for the weekend. We enjoyed visiting with them and everyone was glad to see them this morning at church. It has been quite a few years since they have been here on a Sunday morning. They say hi to all of you!

It's that time and past!

Remember, if you are the donor, no guess you may make!
But today is the first, so your guess I will take!

I forgot to do APRIL's, so here it is.

Random Photos

MAY's

Snapshots featuring:

Tim and Ruth Bixby

Micaiah Calvin

Miriam Ruth