swings

critters

A bee trying to drink our water.

A visitor to our backyard.

Uncle Sam's snails.

Wood lice. Crosby spends half of every day catching them.

Another backyard visitor.

briar and mommy

mustache glasses

children's festival

Every year Ten Thousand Villages has an international children's festival that the kids really like.

Previous years (they didn't have the festival last year):

2015 here and here

2014 here and here

2013 here

This is the kids assembling buckets of supplies for refugees.

Trying out getting water from a well.

Making crafts.

Sitting in a rickshaw.

These are screenshots from Ten Thousand Village's Facebook page.

graduation

Piper's kindergarten graduation.

Waiting to get her diploma.

Receiving her diploma. All my pictures of her onstage came out terrible.

Class picture. (Since she is in cyber school not all of her classmates are here. Some live farther away and went to different graduation sites.)

Silly pictures.

Piper and her teacher Mrs. Hicks.