A Visit with the Phillips

When Logan was a missionary in Romania, he spent a lot of time at the farm that Clark and Sue Phillips were running for an orphanage.  Retired dairy farmers from NY state, they were the closest Americans to where Logan was serving in Oradea.  In December, one of their granddaughters was married in Boston and they took the opportunity to drive up and stay with us.  When Josiah found out they had a large farm (now run by their children) with 30 tractors and hundreds and hundreds of dairy cows, he went into full-on interrogation mode.  He even brought out his box full of toy tractors and pulled out each one, asking, "Do you have one like this?"  The Phillips treated us to a dinner out at Robinson's Wharf and came bearing maple syrup and toffee.  It was really nice to have them and we look forward to when we can visit their farm. :)

An Abundance of Miscellaneous Pictures

Love this picture of Jon and Stephani:

Making apple cider on Logan's homemade press:

 

Pretend napping:

 

Wearing Andi's witch hat:

Ben's special talent for looking malnourished:

Having fun at the Y:

Time for flu shots, after Ben's well child check up.

Abbey's favorite red dress:

UNO time:

 

Abbey's dance class:

Cutting a rotten tree down out back:

 

Playdate and Early Bird Sale

Abbey and Georgia dressing up at the Griffith's:

And the kiddos at the Early Bird sale dressed in their PJ's.  Ben won for Best Children's PJ's!  Very exciting for him.

Sipping hot chocolate at Osman Page while Daddy was working at his desk.

Popham Beach

I spent a Saturday working with Amy to houseclean their home, while Logan and Shawn took the kiddos to Popham Beach for a fun outing.  Although it was cold, they had fun and even got to ride horses in the parking lot!

 

 

 
 

CMP Tree Cutting

CMP came to chop down this rotten tree near the light line in our backyard.  Very exciting for Josiah to observe.  One man went up in a harness, chopping limbs with a chainsaw as he shimmied up.

 

Kids' Artwork

The kids got a big roll of paper from Papa, so they've been busy every day filling up long sheets taped to the floor.  Here are a few pictures from today's offerings:

I believe these are all Star Wars inspired:

Abbey drew this horse!

And Josiah drew this cool fishing scene:

Misc Nov Pics

Josiah made this snowmobile for a Lego Magazine contest...he keeps asking when they announce the winner.  Unbeknownst to him, I never had his picture printed to send it in.  Bad mommy!!

 

Ben really wanted the Lego Jabba's Palace set for his birthday, so he solicited money from his relatives in lieu of gifts.  He was quite excited when he could finally build it the morning of his birthday party!

Abbey sleeping on my bed (in her favorite ballet leotard), and wearing her red dress that she's been wearing out.

Ben's Sunday School class building Jericho's city walls.

Ben got a very cool chess set from Zaid.  He's quite a good little chess player!

These got out of sequence, but here is the finished Jabba's Palace!