Happy 40th Family Birthday!

Well, the Feast has come and gone and now it's on to the Offensive! TYJ! But as is custom we couldn't end the Feast without a good old fellowship :D. To be honest I really didn't want to go to the area fellowship in Monterrey simply because it meant a 6 hour trip in the daytime with Kenji. But seeing that it would mean a chance for Kenji to meet old friends (Mark and Gia's kids) and make new ones :D and simply just get to do something different I opted to go.

He's traveled by car before and he'd always done pretty well, but I guess because the circumstances were different in this trip (he being older, sitting in the double cab pick-up compartment) he didn't do so well. The poor little muffin threw up twice during our 6 hour trip :( Something he's never done before, and mind you he's traveled longer distances a fair bit prior to this trip; by plane 1 time, car 2 times, and bus 3 times.

Anyhow, we made it to the fellowship safe and sound. It was supposed to be a nice, warm, sunny day, but it just happened to be quite the contrary -- cold, cloudy, and rainy :( Thankfully though the Lord gave me a check when packing for the trip to bring warm clothes as well so while others suffered from cold :D we were all nice and warm. TYJ!

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get many photos due to the rain/drizzling, but here are some that I got at one point when the rain stopped for a bit.


Not sure what is running through his head? But it can't be good, look at that face!

He was having such a fun time stomping on the wet leaves, but after some time he thought it was more fun to throw it at people. So naughty!

Angie picked him up for the slower songs of the inspiration, but he wasn't too happy with her for taking him away from his fun leaf playing time.

Steve playing with his old singing team. They were great!


Grandma had a nice meal ready for us upon arriving home. Kenji was most thankful for his food and was so happy to see his grandma. (She and Angel didn't go because Angel had school therapy to attend to and he had already missed a couple of them due to the Feast).

It's really rather cute how excited he gets when grandma comes home if she's been out for a bit. He lets out this high-pitch shriek followed by "a'ma!" (a.k.a. grandma) at the top of his lungs as he runs down the hall towards the door.

After dinner he began playing with his food I usually don't allow him to grab the food with his fingers, unless it's finger food, dump his food on the table, etc., but seeing as he was in a half asleep/foolish mood and as such began talking to himself and the food I let him continue for a bit. Didn't get as many photos as I would have liked to as once he realized what I was doing he got all shy.