Fans of "The Office"

This is for all you fans of "The Office." If you are not an Office fan or have never see this episode, this photo will look very strange to you. Yesterday K went into the bathroom for a much needed shave. When he came out I noticed that his face was only 1/2 shaved. I asked him what happened. He said that I had called him to lunch so he stopped immediately. I thought that was a bit strange, but if you know me, you probably know it is really easy to tell me something and I will believe you. I had no reason to believe he purposely left his face looking as it did. However, hours later when I noticed his face was still half shaved I asked when he would shave it, and he would just ask why he needed to shave it. K tends to take people in circles when asked with questions he does not want to answer, so finally I just told him that he looked like Moes off of "The Office." He laughed. When our friend arrived for the party, KB told both of us to turn around. KB went into the bedroom, did something, came out and turned on some scary music and began talking to us about fear. Our friend and I both being Office fans immediately knew what he was doing. However, we did not expect what we saw when we turned around. KB looked like Moes!!! It was so funny. Later on he gave us a quiz on himself to see who could eat first. It was just like Dwight's quiz about Michael; both our guest and I failed

KB's Birthday

Yesterday was KB's 27th birthday. Only one of our American friends was in the city with us, so it was a very small birthday party. Nevertheless we had a good time. L spent the day making sure that KB had all of his favorite foods. This should go without saying, but all of this food was 100% homemade - including the tortillas. He had biscuits, gravy and eggs for breakfast. For lunch we ate chicken barbecue pizza. For dinner we ate chicken soft tacos, with queso and lime cilantro rice. For his birthday cake we had brownies, with ice cream and homemade chocolate sauce. We were quite full and satisfied!




I think this picture looks like we are two good future parents in training, but the truth is that our dog is scared to death of balloons. They completely freak him out, so we are trying to introduce him to the balloon (by the way look at the scary picture on the balloon). For the rest of the evening he sat still and stared at the balloon, and if you have ever met him you know that sitting still is a miracle in an of itself.


Although L has still 3.5 pounds to gain before she even gets back to her pre-pregnancy weight (she lost 5 pounds as soon as she found out she was pregnant), somehow she is beginning to show. Tomorrow she will be at 16 weeks.


Tomorrow we have to board a bus for a 7 hour trip down south. This is potentially a very bad trip for L. Right now she is visiting the bathroom every hour, and is incredibly thirsty all of the time. The bus will probably only stop one time in the 7 hours. Also, people smoke on the bus, so she will probably have to wear a hot mask the entire time. Lastly, she is having a lot of trouble with headaches. If the trip is really bad, we will have to pay to fly her back for the return trip. Since this will be out of our own pocket, please think of L and hope that she will be able to enjoy the bus trip and be able to return on the bus as well.

We love you all, K & L

June and July Fun

We finished school for this semester on June 20th. That evening we boarded a train to our capital city to eat and shop. It was a lot of fun. Getting home with all the stuff we bought for the baby was a different story though, essentially we almost missed our train home.





Right now we are relaxing and getting the house prepared for a baby. L just entered into her second trimester, but she is not really showing yet. Her clothes are getting pretty tight though. All the locals stare at us anyways, but she is especially self conscious now thinking they believe she is becoming just another fat foreigner.



We had a 4th of July party at our place, and two other Americans attended (a good turnout considering there are only 2 other Americans here anyways). We had all the great food necessary for a 4th of July party, but we really wish we also had a pool. It has been really hot lately.



Recently we found a wonderful thing at the local supermarket - Dryers Ice Cream! All that was available before was Nestles (which is truly awful), and Nestles is only slightly better than the local stuff. Anyways, for $10 USD we get a little less than 2 pints of ice cream, so we have to really ration it.



In early December we will be heading to Thailand for L to spend the remainder of her pregnancy there and will deliver sometime around January 10th. L's mom will be coming to stay will us soon after Christmas, but if anyone wants to come visit us before she comes, we will gladly offer you our sofa!