Buddies, Birthdays, and Blistering Cold...

Today, it was the birthday of one of our favorite French teachers...Pascaline. Ruth made a prune cake (Maw and Paw Huntley's recipe) with a tea candle on top. This is Pascaline's surprised face as she saw Ruth rounding the corner with her birthday cake as the class joined in on a hearty rendering of Joyeux Anniversaire. She was surprised that her students knew her birthday and enjoyed the cake saying (in French of course)... "This is better than the type of prune cake that we make here in France." Go Southern Cuisine!

Well...the cold is not blistering but we are bundling up more especially since we walk or ride our bikes everywhere. Here John is with his papa looking like a little blue tick about to pop.

Here is John and Louisa...they're buddies. Louisa is the little daughter of Neil and Esther who are a wonderful couple who are fellow students and will work in the same country as we (Lord willing) will. We are getting together on Mondays to get to know each other better as we will more than likely be working with each other for the coming years. We are thankful for time to get to know these guys and the babies are getting used to each other too.