Carey’d Away…

We had a nice little swimming & dinner Farewell Party with our close friends before we left Thailand.  I had my P&S camera with me, but mostly was too involved to remember to take photos with it.  Here are a few.

swimming fun

some of the big people (some were in the pool)

cheesy banner the hotel put up for us

kids’ table

Chrissy and Crawford

Chrissy turned the camera back around on Michelle and I

After dinner the kids took apart the “stage” and turned it into a wrestling ring.

At the end of the school year, the junior school put on a fabulous production called Mr. Skelly Bones. They made everything themselves, from the background to their costumes and every child from K1 (3 years old) to grade 5 was in the show. Pretty impressive! I got to help out with photos, here are a few of the boys. A few more are in this gallery.

For his birthday this year we took Nathan to an orchid farm to give him is present - his very first camera. He loves taking photos, so was very excited!

What in the bag?

a camera!

I know how to use it already.

Ready to photograph the orchids

Nathan in action

Happy Birthday Katrina!

art and crafts fun

cute Nathan critter

lego fun

cookie makers

stage paint!

everyone had fun with Mr. Bradley

cake time!

Matthew and Nathan had a small party play-date to celebrate their 2008 birthdays.

Party Box Making

Pizza Making

Mud Cake Making

Hey! These crazy candles relight!

Cheese!

Sparkler fun quickly evolved (devolved?) into fire starting

At the end of a great day, present time with friends

Click on any of the above photos to go to the gallery and see more photos from their birthday celebration. The password is “birthday”.

When Mike had laid out his shirts for his head-shots and gotten in the shower, as a lark I snuck in and added a crazy, ruffly, green tux shirt I had made for him to wear to an Irish Ball a few years ago.

He declined wearing it for his head-shots, but once the serious shots were finished the clown in him did humor me with some funny shots.

Home alone in the middle of the day and this is what we get up to. lol

There are a couple more over on my Flickr site. Clicking the photos above will take you there.

Mike is having some articles published and needs a headshot to go with them. Yay Mike!

He was very sure he wanted to shave for the photo, but I insisted he leave the hair on for a few first.

The wrinkles in his shirt were a constant struggle; I think I have gotten him to agree to have a few new ones tailored.

Matthew and Nathan participated in the Junior School Musical Assembly today.  We’re so proud. 

Nathan rehearsing before school (Matthew decided to play on the playground instead)

called up to perform

Nathan’s solo

and his duet with the piano teacher, Santi

Matthew’s solo

Matthew class performed on their recorders too.

On Tuesday we had the joy of going to school with the children during a non-school day and each of them spent an hour showing us their school work from this year and various activities they enjoy in their classrooms.  During Matthew’s conference we noticed he was having difficulty seeing the screen across the room.  That afternoon we took him for an eye exam and he got his first pair of glasses!  We think he looks very handsome in his new glasses. 

After a week’s break with a hurt arm, on Wednesday Matthew was back at tennis looking great!

On March 28th, Nathan’s class hosted an all school assembly to teach students about the upcoming Thai New Year festival called Songkran.  Nathan was one of 3 presenters.

getting ready

Nathan has one more quick practice before the other students arrive.

Katrina is on first - is she reading it correctly? 

 Nathan’s turn!

a proud pose with one of the props after his performance

 The whole class giggles at my friend Aly clucking like a chicken so I can take this photo.