Another Wild Week

Events This Week

Woke up one morning to this beautiful display...love notes by the coffee pot.
Was fortunate enough to be able to enjoy the The Wise Families court date to finalize their adoption of Maya. I've been blessed to go to a few of these now and they are always so plain and uneventful and yet so life changing.

Made apple butter in the crock pot with spices left over from our trip to Bali. I love calling my apple butter Bali Butter.

McNeil School had their Spring Music Festival. The kids looked so cute.Both Marina's and Falcom's classes danced instead of sang. Lenore said that there was only one kid in the class who wanted to sing instead of dance. The crowd assumed it was Falcom, but I could see from the smile on Falcom's face that he was elated to be dancing instead of singing.

These are some of my wild Alaskan friends.

By the way, if you can ever get him to sing the Alaskan state song for you, he sounds very sweet at it.

On Friday, McNeil Canyon Elementary School celebrated it's 25th birthday.

It was quite a party! The entire community was invited. Bar-B-Que, activities, singing, and this Fantastic Cake! We saw old friends and enjoyed the fun things that happen at this beautiful community school. Vince and Marina tried their hand at stilts. Not as easy as it looks.

That evening, Marina built herself a wonderful house in our living room and slept in it. She is looking for supplies so that she can make it into a more spacious apartment building.



News from Guam:

Lucy and Manuel (DeeJay and Willie's Mom and Dad) are no longer having to be living in the serfdom of this nasty old man. Lucy called yesterday to tell us that he has been thrown in jail for molesting his granddaughter. His wife came to move the families into an apartment at his expense because he could not be released from jail until the children (Stacy and Germaine) were off his land. Lucy and Manuel took this opportunity to say, "No Thanks!" and are now free from that mess and living with cousins in a house and are very happy.

News from Hawaii:

Resihna's oldest son (Falcom's oldest bio-brother) has died in a drowning accident in Honolulu Harbor. Please keep them in your hearts.