me gusta mexico mucho

i have returned from a great week in the land of sombreros...complete with guacamole, churros and an infinite number of trips to the super chico for be-light. we did quite a bit of manual labor at the orphanage...the main projects were: painting, moving and installing a playground for the kids [which involved, among other things, lots of hole digging and the risk of being impaled by rebar] cleaning up the property, removing thorny brush and shoveling rock putting the finishing touches...

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to mexico i go

a week from today i'll be heading back to the 'house of joy' orphanage in san pedro mexico. i was there last october, just two weeks after they officially opened their doors. on that trip our team of five helped make their new house a home by painting the interior and having fun playing with the seven kids who lived there. we also heard some sweet stories about our new friends ruby and lizeth, and spent a lot of time cracking up at little aneth's laugh. our team has grown to nine and...

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spring break: part deux

kim's spring break was this week so i made the sacrifice and went on a second spring break trip, because that's what friends do. if anyone else needs me to be their friend, i'm available. we flew to kim's favorite place [aka las vegas] to visit the dyers and gamble away our life savings [kidding!]. we took mallory to the golden nugget for a girls night and spend the rest of our days hanging out, playing with maddie, and shopping [i watched]. then at night we headed out on the town. thanks...

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