The view from Budapest

We had another wonderful Christmas morning.  Here’s a recap in pictures:

Kids wait “patiently” at the top of the stairs before seeing what Santa brought: 

Diving into the presents
 

Christmas breakfast and the reading of the Christmas story:
 

Kirby Ann has a breathing treatment.  We are so thankful that she is with us and not at the hospital
 

Reed’s surgery went very well today.  The actual surgery took about 20 minutes and the doctor said that they looked very bad and definately needed to come out. 

Since then, he hasn’t been feeling too well.  He has been in some pain and has had a lot of nausea and vomiting.  Needless to say, the [...]

 

We invited all the Aggies that we knew in Budapest to come and watch the big game with tu.   We had some great food, great fellowship and to top it all off, the Aggies won.  I know that my neighbors are wondering what was going on at our house all night with all of the yelling.  [...]

It’s 5:30pm the night before Thanksgiving.   I’m about to send the final copy of a 125 page report to my boss that we’ve been working on for the past week and a half.  I’m not coming back to the office until December 4th!!!!!  YIPPEE!!  I haven’t had a day off to speak of since June [...]

Here it is.  Almost a month since my last post.  I’d like to say it was something spiritual like a blog fast or something, but it was just overwhelming busyness.  I jumped into the deep end of the pool with my new job and I haven’t had much time for extras like blogging.  For some, [...]

This is a big week for Campus Crusade here in Budapest.  Being a missionary community with a large number of expats, many of our staff are gone for the summer.  Some return to the US to see family, fund raising and general R&R.  Others are on summer projects out in one of our 19 countries.   [...]

I moved my blog to a new hosting provider.  I love bluehost.com and have used them for other websites.  I’m glad that my contract ran out with my old provider so that I could move my own site to them.

I’ve also moved my blog to the home position of my site.  I had big plans [...]

WOW! Almost a week and a half since my last entry. What a couple of weeks it has been. Work has been really busy and my parents have been here visiting for the past week. We have had a great time. I’ve had to work more than I would have [...]

[image:372:l]Valerie & I went took the kids to see the Prestonwood Baptist Church Student Choir that was here on tour this past Saturday. My aunt who attends had let us know that they were coming. The only person that I knew we would run into was Ross Robinson, the missions’ pastor, whose [...]