Fun with Robert, Luke, and Jan

 A few weeks ago Luke came to visit our friends Robert (a Lander colleague) and Jan (his wife). Here is  picture just before we met at Wendy's of John and I in front of our parish church.

 David and Luke together at Wendy's.

 David and Luke bowling while John watches.

 Luke after a particularly a good throw.

 David and Luke playing air hockey

 Arlene is amazing at skeeball

 John watching David playing Monkey Ball.

 John pretending to play Monkey Ball

John and I playing with the balloon they won with their tickets while David tries his hand at air hockey

Another Gift

Another one of our former friendship family daughters, Sophie Lee, kindly sent us these New Years Cards

Sophie's picture is at the bottom. We are really blessed to have such loving, kind people in our lives.

More Gifts from Jisoo and Minwook

We just recieved a care package from Jisoo and Minwook (our first friendship family daughter and her boyfriend). It had a kind card, a bunch of snacks, and Korean-style stamp (도장)

 

 

Look at all that loot!





Individually-wrapped Korean coffee packs! I have missed this stuff! It's awesome.

 The stamp. It says "Rausch Family" in English and the part that is used to stamp says "라우시" (Rausch/Ra-u-she). Such a thoughtful gift!

Fun with Gifts from Jisoo and Minwook

 

Our former friendship family daughter Jisoo and Minwook gave us some gifts awhile ago. We recently had the opportunity to have a lot of fun with them. 

 My colleague Bill and his wife Mei had us over to their house for Chinese New Year's. Here we are playing Yuk-no-ri with our friendship family daughters Minkyung and Yaemin, Bill and Mei's friendship family daughter Lilly, and their son Zhen (David is playing guitar). Our team won both games (Zhen was really good at it!)

 

Jisoo and Minwook also gave us magnetic Han'gul letters (Korean alphabet). John had a blast playing with them.

Thanks again Jisoo and Minwook for your gifts!

Saturday Fun

 

 

Things have been busy the last few weeks with the start of the new semester and I'm getting ready to give some exams and papers so we thought I should take a half-day off on Saturday to go out. We tried to go to Jumping Jacks, but it was really crowded so we then went to the skating rink but it was closed. We weren't sure where to go but then David suggested the bowling alley, which turned out to be perfect.



 David and John riding the motorcycle.

 David beat me at air hockey, 7-2.

 Arlene and the boys back on the motorcycle.

Playing team basketball.

David making a spare on mini bowling

John bowling.

After bowling we went to McDonad's and then to Publix. After that it was back to work.