Hope House Christmas Party

For the Hope House Christmas Party we went to play mini golf. None of the kids have ever played before. It was so funny watching them. Some of them thought they could only play one hole they kept hitting the ball on the same hole over and over. Others thought you only got one shot so they would hit the ball then go pick it up and go back to the beginning and try again. We finally explained the rules and they all had a blast.









Christmas gifts
The tree
Dinner time. Their were all these little grills set up for the kids to cook their food. I forgot what it's called something like mukata?? It's kind of like fondue in the US. All the kids had a great time :-)








The lights were so pretty set up I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it.
Sawyer and his little buddy Jaken
Some of the older boys telling the Christmas story
Our gift to the kids. A foose ball table

Eddy came out dressed as SANTA
Wutachai (bubba) seeing Santa and getting his first ever Christmas gift. This was the first Christmas for several of the kids.


Sawyer getting his gift
He did not want to sit on his lap
All the kids with Santa
All the kids got new Hope House shirts

Watching a Christmas Carol on the lawn
Making ice cream sandwiches literally ice cream on two slices of bread....

A super fun day with Grammy and Graaaa

One of our last days at home my parents took Sawyer to the Marine Science Museum. He is really into fish right now and my mom knew he would love it. And he did!! We had such a fun time running around and looking at the different exhibits.



ohhhh the fish

He walked into this room and the alligator was right there. He took one look at it and said scary




TURTLES!!! The sea turtles were Sawyer's favorite! We spent the most time watching the turtles swim. Sawyer just ran back and forth from one end of the tank to the other.

Sawyer and Grammy or as he says Gwammy gwammy
So happy together


He was patting dads head and pulling his hair and he thought it was the funniest thing.
He also loved the seal in the front swimming around
Fun in the leaves. Outside of the museum there was a bridge and leaves everywhere. Sawyer LOVES the leaves. He played out there for over 30 minutes. It was a highlight for us and these ended up being some of my favorite pictures ever.











Going to get Graaaa...he sees him
almost there.......
gotcha!!