Here are some pictures from our time at Tim Franklin’s home in Natal.  (This is where Barry also grew up.)  There are several pictures of the cashew fruit. Many people are only familiar with the cashew nut. The nut is encased in the grayish curved part at the bottom of the fruit. There are a [...]

We recently went to Iguassu Falls for the first time since we have been here.  The falls are in Parana, the state we live in, but are on the other side.  It takes about 9 hours to drive there.  It was a blessing that Barry’s parent’s were able to be there at the same time [...]

Here are some pictures from our trip to see Barry’s parents in Campo Grande

God granted David a special blessing at SBRS’s annual Music Conference.  The guest speaker’s wife is his “real live reading teacher!” (We are using BJ’s DVD homeschooling set for his first grade and he had just finish his first Book Link, Once in Blueberry Dell, taught by Mrs. Cox.) After the evening service, we were [...]

We went and visited our friends James and Christen Taylor who recently moved from Curitiba to Florianópolis to start a new church there.  James is working with his brother and his wife, David and Sharon Taylor.  While we were there we all went sledding…on sand.  It was a lot of fun.  On the way back [...]