Esher's Birthday and more

Aleeyah and Esher were blessed during the visit pastor Joel Pascua, our mision director from the Philippines. They both had fun playing, running, and gigling with their Titu Joel. Titu Joel is in fact, Esher's ninong.
The IWU ladies ministered to our family too. Aleeyah and Esher enjoyed their friendship. Here Hannah and Aleeyah poses for a picture inside the van.
Esher with Hannah

Aleeyah and Aimee coloring together during our ministry travel in Kratie

During Esher's birthday, all the kids invited were supposed to have a coloring competition, but they arrived one hour and a half late, so the adults did the coloring instead. This is the first group with Jeff and Channy.

The other group coloring with Uncle Bob from Mitchell SD.

Aleeyah helping Esher blow her candle

Former students Sonicol and Chanthol with their baby Rachel

The twins of Pastor Poleak and Nekru Malout, Paul and Peter were there too.

Pastor Reaksimey and his wife Roathmony with sons Joshua and Rathana

the Cambodian Ninangs (Godmothers), Channy, Channa, Chumraen

Roathmony, Pastor Reaksimey's wife, a seamstress, made this blue dress as her birtday gift to Esher

the kids enjoyed playing the fishing toy given by baby Rachel, daughter of Sonicol and Chantol.

Mr. Bob Lemon, whom Esher call, uncle Bug, was a victim of "the icing game or the after cake" fun. The students had fun catching each other putting icing into each other's face or neck.

Adam and Rachel had fun with the 'icing game' too.

Behold the Beauty of Cambodia's Nature

The trip was not very convenient because our van overheated and needed to be towed while we are still forty Kilometers away from our destination. But.....

for Aleeyah it's alright because as you see, she is sound asleep and for Esher its okay too, she still smiles while the vehicle is being towed by a truck.
Arriving at Tita Amy's home was restful. Anytime of the day, we find oursleves idling in her comfortable huge rattan couch


Being an environmentalist, she patronizes products that are made of nature. You will see many basket like this, big and small inside her house. She use them for laundry basket, vegetable and fruit basket and many more. Aleeyah finds it fun to stay inside and play.

The next morning, we were gonna go elephant treking, but it will take us six hours total to go around the mountain and get back. So, we just had a picture with the elephant. This is enough for now.

This is a local Bunong tribal house that sits near the elephant ride trek station. Many of this have not heard the Gospel message.

Since we couldn't go elephant treking, we went to visit some water falls. This is Dakdam waterfalls.

Wooden steps down to the waterfalls.

That's right. Hold the railings tight.

Strolling around the forest.

Aleeyah and Esher exploring the woods

It looks silly but it does not matter as long as we are having fun. That tree looks really big.

Yes, we don't really care how those hair looks like as long as we are having a pure bonding time

While visiting around, we spotted a local Bunong Tribe woman

That's the kind of road we are treking to go around the mountain, some are worst, some are nicer.

Enjoying lunch at nature lodge with ate Ems, Tita Amy's daughterThe girls having more fun at nature lodge

The girls enjoying their sisterhood

A pose with Tita Amy and her sister Anne

It took the strength of Tita Amy...

Kuya Tony to get Aleeyah to the water fall's pool

That's Resie liberating herself from all the stress and pressure of work as she enjoys the fresh water falls on her. This is Monorom waterfalls.

In the late afternoon of the same day, we went to mountain Monorom to behold the sunset, and there the kids had fun picking some bushe's branches.

The next day, we all went to Bousra Water falls one of the most beautiful falls throughout Cambodia.

Aleeyah's Birthday and more

The party seems only for the kids. Using Jairah Rafael's portable swimming pool, Aleeyah had a swimming birthday party with her friends except....

....Hannah, her bestfriend. She could not swim because she was not feeling well that day.

The birthday party was not only for kids after all. Everyone that came enjoyed the simple (handa) food, fried hotdog on a stick and a marsmallow with some orange juice. And the birthday cake of course.

Aleeyah was blessed to receive a gift from Bong Channy.......

........... a beautiful dress

and from Bong Channa...........

......... a sleeping clothes

and from Bong Chumraen..... a beautiful dress too.

Esher with her new baby sitter, Bong Somnang, with Bong Chumraen and Bong ChanaNot a new truck! At the end of the day, after working hard when we just moved to the new property, Greg put her two daughters in the wheelbarrow and gave them a really good ride. The girls had fun.

Aleeyah invited her friends, Hannah, and Luka, the contractor's son for a cake party.

Aleeyah enjoying a bike ride with Bong Srey leak, the daughter of our school guard

Esher running in the spacious area at the new property. Behind her is the entrance gate and the guard post.



On the boat but inside the van. On our way to the wedding of Srey Lis' sister. Aleeyah and Esher both enjoy traveling.