Over the holidays we toured the city of Yogyakarta (Jogja). We rode on traditional baychuks, toured the Sultans palace, the bird market, silver making factory, and batik making factory. It was all very interesting and even the kids had a good time.

We had the chance to head to the beach while my parents were here. Although you may not see it in the pictures we were very disappointed to see so much garbage in the water. Apparently it is always like that during the rainy season including Bali! The resort was very nice and we still had a chance to do lots of swimming with the kids.

Hard to believe our baby Grayson is one already! On January 2nd he turned 1 and the kids, myself and grandma made cupcakes to look like a balloon. Again we invited our neighbors and Grayson had fun opening gifts and licking the icing off the cupcake.

On Christmas day we invited our closest neighbors and families of our helpers. Together we enjoyed traditional Indonesian food in Indonesian style. We were also invited to another Indonesian friends house for lunch so we definitely had our fill of good food. When the meal was over at our house we had tons of left overs so we packed it up and went and delivered to food the some of the poorer people in our neighborhood. It was the best part of Christmas!

We were very blessed to have my parents here for Christmas in Indonesia. Paul read the story of Jesus's birth from the Bible for the family and after a little prayer time we dove into opening gifts. Much fun was had by all!

We have such a good time with our kids and they all have their moments. Grayson is sure a laugher and he proves it in this video.