Hello!!!  ITS ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!  We got some candy canes!!!  Its funny, the thing that you usually have for a tradition or something you never worry about not having them because you always have, but when you move somewhere or do something and you realize that you most likely do or have it, you kind off freak out!!!!!  But when someone nice gives you it or does it with you, you get really, REALLY happy!!!!!!!   
See you later,
Mak

Some Old Pictures

Hello!!! How are all of you today or tonight?  It is almost Christmas!!!!!!!  Only 7 more days until Christmas for us and 8 for you! Hee Hee.... But you have Christmas Eve in 7 days! Even though we still only have 6! Oh well. You get to have it longer!!!   There are only going to be like 10 or 15 people here over Christmas, so my dad said that they will only be making the buffet  for us! Hee Hee Hee. 
Here are some Pics!!

 This is me when I had just gotten my violin!!!

 Me with my violin!!!

 The playground in Brazil.

 Me and Sam doing school before Brazil.

 Sam and Christian.

 Me riding a bike!

 Sam hanging upsidedown.

 Us and Tyler playing we were a band!!!

 Us and Grandma Linda.

 Us with Grandma and Grandpa

 Taking a picture before church!!!

 Us with Annie!!!

Me and Sam!!!!

Buying our Christmas tree

We bought a CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   We went to a store called Rama's Evergreens where they had lots of trees of all sizes and now we have a 7 foot one!!!  It was really fun!! We got to pick out all the decorations and pick out the lights to!!!  Then we went to a store called Darabjees and bought potatoes and came home and made lefse!!! Have any of you  ever had lefse?  It's a potato bread that's really delicate with butter and sugar and cinnamon in it!!!  Its really good!  Once i get the pictures uploaded, I'll tell you all about our FIRST elephant ride!!!
Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year
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 Hello everyone! Our favorite little Benjamin is leaving today...););););););
And Maggie is leaving on the 21st););); SO is Andrea! I haven't taken a picture of her but i will before she leaves!! Her mom and dad are Catholics and were born on an island that's really small and everyone is related!!! They are to! Their cousins!   They are going to the island for Christmas and there they cant hold hands, sleep in the same room, and they aren't supposed to talk to each other and of they do they can't call each other by their first names! Funny and Silly!   Well talk to you soon!
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To The Orphanage At Last

We FINALLY mad it to the orphanage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was sooo much fun! Here are a few pics! I can't write tonight because it is 8:15 and i still have to eat dinner! So i will tell you all about it tomorrow! Ill send you some more later!!  Can you wait??????

1 Hello!!! We are for sure going to the orphanage tomorrow!!!! It will be fun! I hope........
But I am not looking forward to to the drive): our driver drives really fast, the roads are so bumpy, AND his car is new so you get carsick after about 15 or 20 minutes......... But then it s should be fun.

2 We are probably coming back to visit in late May or early June! Do any if you want to come? I'm serious....... We would love to have someone come!!!!! We are probably takings a friend home and our Grandma is coming!! So if anyone wants to come.......

3 Theo is playing with his ball right now and it keeps slipping under the coffee-table... Actually he keeps PUSHING it under the coffee-table... On PURPOSE!!! he's a stinker.

4 Grandma Linda sent us care packages to open every month!!!! We opened two on Monday and now we have a hole bucket of candy about 5 inches high and 10 inches wide!!!!!!! It's fun !! Thank you very much Grandma!!!
Talk to you soon!!

(Think about it) paragraph 2

HELLO. WE ARE MOST LIKELY GOING TO THE ORPHANAGE ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE SO! SORRY I HAVEN'T BLOGGED FOR A WHILE........ OUR SHIPMENT ARRIVED YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT WE DON'T GET TO OPEN IT YET BECAUSE WE ARE NOT POSITIVELY SURE WE GOING TO STAY HERE YET...... BUT WE ARE PRETTY SURE... WE DECIDED TO STAY HERE FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE IT WAS A LITTLE TO COMPLICATED WITH EVERYTHING, SO WE WILL PROBABLY GO NEXT YEAR!!!  HERE ARE SOME MORE PICS..................................
TALK TO YOU LATER..........

                                                          SAM IN THE RICKSHAW

                                                                   ANCHELA

OIANA

THIS IS ALEXANDRA

SHE IS FROM GERMANY

To The Orphanage At Last

  Hi,
WE FINALLY MADE IT TO THE ORPHANAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  On Saturday we all went down to the orphanage to check it out!  IT WAS AUSOME!!!!!!!  It was really nice!  The house's for the girls are all names after flowers!  They have ages 6 to 20 in the house's and a person who looks after them and do everything that a mom would do AND they have a guardian that would DO everything a dad would do only its not necessarily a man! And all the the kids are so happy!!! We are going back on Thursday to work and play with the kids!! We are going to work with the little kids in the nursery. It will be lots of fun!  I will try to take some pictures but I'm not so sure that they allow it!!!!!!  Talk to you soon!!!
Makaela!!

Hello,
Its Saturday morning now and their its Friday night!!!!!
Check out the new blog in the side of my blog!!!! See if you can read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEE HEE HEE
Have any of you listened to adventures in Odyssey? You  can go to a website called www.whitsend.org There very funny stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Maggie

                  Us and Megan

In India We Are

Hi Everybody!!
   We are staying in Munich,Germany for 2 days,(we will be their for Christmas,) an then we are going to stay in Austria for a week and learn skiing and look around Austria!!!! In Germany we are going to walk around town and go to a candle light service AND go to those Christmas shops!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be alot of fun!
  

    I'm going to take a picture of us standing half way in Germany and half way in Austria, and I will send it to you all!
Talk To You Soon!!!!!!!
M

Hello!!!!

I'm not sure what to write about although you would think that I would have everything in the world to talk about, i probably do have alot to say and i just cant think of it, so here are a few pictures to keep you entertained well i think about what to tell you all!!!

                                                                 SUGAR CANE, LOVE IT

Hello again

I think i found something to talk to you about!!! On Saturday my Dad went to a Muslim market to buy fruit and vegetables! He also went to a fish and mutton market to just look around and experience India! At the mutton market he saw people skinning the animals, he saw live animals, lots and lots of already skinned animals hanging all around and their was no refrigerators so everything was exposed, and outside of the building their were little rivers of blood flowing down the sides. It's really sad and gross. Oh you see how the guy driving is Caucasian, that's Rene!!!!!! He drove us to Dario's in Sunday. ( Dario's is a really fun all vegetarian Italian restaurant that we go to almost ever Sunday or Saturday. It's really good.)

That's all that I have to say today!!
Talk soon

India Again

Hello!!!

  Did you know that another reason we quit the school is that since we are Americans they would give us lower than we really got): Just because we are Americans.  (It's really annoying.)  We are almost FOR SURE going to Austria for Christmas now!!!  Here are a few pics!!!!

Bye For Now

                                                                Us and Megan the day we left

                                                                    Me drinking a coconut

                                              Me, Sam, and Megans Best Freinds Forever neclace
                                              I have Best, Megan has Friends, and Sam has Forever

                                                The French Fri, Burger plate they have at the hotel

                                                                    Benjamin or Benyamin 

Hello everyone!!!

How are all of you Guys doing back in the USA?

We are all doing fine here and are having lots of fun!!!

For Christmas we our most likely going to Austria to a ski resort!!!

And here in Pune at the Hyatt (it's a hotel) they are going to have an all Thanksgiving dinner!

With turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, and a bunch of other of stuff.  We and some of our friends are going to go!!! It will be fun!!!  What are you all doing for the holidays?

Here are a few pics of us, Elsie, and Elena. By the way, the picture of us walking through the fence is a hole in the wall that leads to a few shops and fruit stands.It is known as the HOLE IN THE WALL!!

 

                      This is us at our swimming pool.( There is a rat that leaves underneath the boards.)

                                                                   THE HOLE IN THE WALL 

                                                   Elena                           Elsie

                                                              Us playing with the puppies

 This is a poem i wrote about the baby puppies!!!

Puppies, puppies everywhere

Rolling, tumbling without a care

Drinking their milk, not wanting to share                                       

Whining, barking, being nosed with care                                         

Wanting to know whats out in the world                               

But being told to not go out if we dared

Why couldn’t we go out In the world

But we could only stay the hole that we shared

Other dogs passing all around our den

Once there was even a red golden hen

To Be Continued/When We Come Out Of Our Den

Some More Of India

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? This morning we went to see the puppies and the mommy dog attacked Elsie and Elena):):): Its sad that they have to be so aggressive. Maybe the mommy dog won't be so aggressive once the babies get bigger! The little babies getting bigger and bigger every time we see them! We are going back out to see them later this afternoon so i will try to get some pictures if i can!


Have any of you ever read: SEVEN SONS AND SEVEN DAUGHTERS? If you haven't you should its really good!!! Or have you read : SHADOW SPINNER? That's also very good!!


Outside our hotel are some kids that come to work with their mom everyday to clean the sidewalks in front of are hotel.(Their dad works at the hotel.)Their names are Bunker and I don't know. (No her name is not I Don't Know, I don't remember her name, i will tell it to you as soon as i remember.)

Keep You Posted
Bye For Now

Hi.
Right now our Grandma is here.
Sam is at school, My mom is talking to my grandma and I'm working on this.
The packers are going to pack up all of our stuff on Monday, And we are leaving on Tuesday.
Here are a few pictures of our friends.
Keep looking for new posts.

Hello! Here are a few pics! We've been helping some puppies as most of you know and you know that there is a pregnant mommy!!! She had her babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are so cute!!!!! They were only born yesterday so we haven't gotten to play with them yet but we know there is a black and white one!!!!!!!!
Keep you posted!!!
M

                                                                   Us and Theodore

                                                                Just us on are porch

                                                       Benjamin bowling with water bottles

                                                           3 rickshaws outside are hotel

                                                                     An apartment

                                                    A waterfall on are drive from Mumbai