water fun day with the kids

Our Ashmita is such a cutie isn't she?!

A couple of Saturdays ago I decided that I would make a homemade slip-and-slide. If you're anywhere near the age of 30, you surely HAVE to know what a slip-and-slide is. I didn't have my own, but I have fond memories of going to Karen Bauman's house and sliding on that long, yellow slip-and-slide. It was AWESOME! Not only did she have a huge yard and a slip-and-slide, but she had an indoor pool with a dolphin or whale or something painted on the bottom. Well actually, that dolphin/whale thing quite freaked me out... but well, thats not the point! HA! Playing at Karen's house rocked, I think thats my point, or slip-and-slides rock, maybe thats my other point! Here in Kathmandu its rainy season now, so we have plenty of water. We went and got an eight meter long piece of tarp, sprayed water all over it, and they slipped and slid away! They had SO much fun- of course they moved on to wiping mud all over their bodies- and since it was a sleep over that day, I had to bathe everybody. I just lined them up, hosed them down, and gave them a bar of soap. Then we all snuggled in for a movie.

Manju and Sangeeta are squirt gun snipers.

Saajan and Gyalzen are good buddies.

Sanjay was the champion slip-and-slider! He could go the whole 8 meters!

I guess being the champion makes Sanjay smile!

We were lining the hose with holes in it up on the tarp.


Yay! It works!


Goofy Saajan! Can you tell he's been with me practically every day of his life?!


Oh! oops!


Smiley girls!

Tsering got a face full of water.

my little buddy

Today is Friday. On Monday, the guy who watches our gate and takes care of the yard opened the gate for something and didn't notice that four month old Tyson slipped out. About fifteen minutes later we went out to search for him, but to no avail. He was gone. Someone mentioned noticing a man enticing him to come. The thing about German Shepherds is that they are expensive and people will just take them. Someone obviously took him knowing that he was somebody else's. We made lost dog posters offering a reward for Tyson's return. Someone wrote on one of the posters that he has the dog or knows where he is, and he left a number. We have been trying to call the number, but we can't get through. We're thinking that the guy has run out of money on his phone and thats why it doesn't work, but we're not sure. Please pray that we'll get Tyson back! Molly is pretty sad about it and so are we. ;(

Uncle Bob

This is my Uncle Bob. He is so adorable that I want to bite him. I mean, I guess now that he is legally old enough for a discount at lots of restaurants now I don't really want to bite him now but look at him in this picture! Its so cute that I just wanted to share it with everybody!