Kinder in May

Painting hearts for Mother's day.

More pattern practice...three colors!

 

Playing together

The puzzle queen

A Morning at the Park

Visiting the kittens with my three.

And the horses...

Where the Earth Meets the Sky

The first Saturday of May I enjoyed a hike with Kathy, Dayton, Madison, Pau, Melody, and Limon to the top of a plateau west of Magdalena.

The way up...

Reaching the top...

The cows grazing...

Walking across part of the huge plateau towards our lunch site.

Looking off the edge...from where we ate lunch. 

Our group standing at our lunch site on the edge of the plateau.

The "mountain of the window" from where we were. Magdalena is a sprinkle of white on the right edge of the picture.

This was a bucket-filling morning! 

Definition of "bucket-filling": Something that fills your joy bucket.

Choir Trip to San Jose

 Our choir trip took place April 16-17th.

We left Saturday morning at 9:30ish and arrived in San Jose around 3:30 PM.

Packing the luggage on top of the Volkswagen van.

Half hour down the rode, we had to stop and readjust the packing.

Aboard the 15-passenger van which we named "The Dawn Treader." All the boys, the Beyer girls, and I were the passengers of this van with Keith and Seth. The rest of the girls, Melody, and Alisa rode in the Volkswagen van.

Me and the Beyer girls.

We bought some rope at a hardware store along the highway. Stopped at this gas station, the ladies observe as the men finally get the luggage secure for the rest of the trip.

A fruit stand about 20 min. from San Jose.

Checking out our rooms upon arrival. The boys shared the old sanctuary...

...and the girls got the upstairs of the house. Most of us slept on the floor, but both rooms had coolers for which we were grateful.

San Jose is a town of about eight by eight blocks. Here you can see the cornfield at the end of the street. They also grow wheat in this region.

Some of us girls accompanied Melody to the grocery store.

Saturday evening after a service at the church, we went to a lake in Obregon about 30 min. away.

There we enjoyed coconut from a stand. First you drink the coconut water...

...then they prepare it to taste with churros, jicama, peanuts, cucumber, clamato, rielitos, etc.

Sunday morning in the kitchen.

Eggs, beans, and tortillas for breakfast. Mmm!

After breakfast and clean-up, we went over to the church. There was a service and at the end of the service, we (the choir) got up and sang six songs. Here we are singing...

And here is a picture of everyone on the trip.

After church, we packed up and headed back to CVE. 

Lots of wonderful memories and many experiences to grow from.