Eventful week

Monday marked our 7 year anniversary of arriving here in Slovenia! Kathy Codanti came over and even made brownies! Then we recalled with the kids what those early days were like and how different it is now that we feel at home here.

We've become quite attached to American Idol. Every week we watch and revel in our American-ness, snacking on imported goodies like Oreo cookies or brownies. Christina, our co-worker has joined the hysteria and for our last week together with our American Idol family she prepared a special imported yellow-cake-from-a-box to celebrate!
Blake turned 12 on tuesday. And we celebrated him with his school mates on thursday. Johnny and Brooke Stevens loaned us Rock Band and the kids LOVED it! Blake has the best birthday parties through his youth worker connections. Good thing we had to give it back though. Josh and I sneaked down and played quite a bit after the kids had gone to bed. I was getting quite good on bass.

I need to figure out how to put a picture of David Cook right here, because after the party goers left the Jackson family showed up and we watched the American Idol finale. We had decided we'd be happy either way because we really liked both Davids. But in the end we realized that it was quite the opposite! We didn't want either one to lose!

Friday,we kept the party train going and celebrated Kendra's 8th birthday a little early. She had her school friends over for traditional cake and ice cream and party games. They wrapped up the night by watching Surf's Up in Slovene. It was a great encouragement to see our kids watch and laugh right along with the others. Their language abilities have grown over the years!