This week in pictures

Tonight we had a farewell dinner for Elder Samways! (from Brazil)  

Our good friend and full-time missionary is heading to CT this week.  

We (especially the kids) will miss seeing him. He was a "greeny" in January last year in our Massachusetts ward, still learning English, and we were lucky enough to have him serve in our new ward too!  Happy to have Elder Tingey here, and to get to keep Elder Fochtman.  These are some good boys here. 

(They were helping with a move all day before coming to our house)

 Cora was super excited to unearth this personalized bag from our friend Svenja.  She was like "This is MINE???  With a C???"  So happy. 

 I decided on a"No TV day!" on Friday.  Cora came up with all kinds of creative ways to use her time . She was coloring, and reading, and coloring some more, and she made this creative "Anna's blanket" exhibit and I was so proud she did something creative instead of frying her brain with TV.....until I gave in at 2:00.  At least I made it that long finally!  It's been a rough go the last 4 months.

 Ollie lovin' his new bib

 Timmy did a Poetry Share with his class on Thursday.  

His poem was entitled "He the Land" and was about Germany.

So proud of this kid!

 Group Poetry Read

 We were gifted this darling book on Wednesday.  

Wonderful Father's Day gift for Dads with small children!  Check it out!

 Took a trip down memory lane at the Acton Discovery Museum Wednesday.  So fun!

 The treehouse here is simply amazing. 

 Cora and her friend had such a great time together.

  

And the end of the day she was so sad to go that there was lots of screaming and sadness, and then suddenly, a nice quiet nap/car on the way home.  Ah....3 years old.