La Vida Loca - Babies & Roses
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Sara smiles
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Hi babies!
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Our lovely little *gemelas* aka twins
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Ximena smiles
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Fun on the deck with Ximena...
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Tickle war!
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Looks like Mariya is winning!
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Cease fire! All good truces end with hugs...
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Being bashful
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With the sunset in our face
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The sunset from our deck
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The Arroyos rose farm! This is how they grow...
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The roses start here...
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Then are cut...
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Then a bunch of expert sorters sort them and package them....
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...they are sorted by type, length and quality
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Finally, they are *put to sleep* in the really cold fridge to await shipment
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Papito Arroyo explaining me the business
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We werent really into this pic...
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And here begins the parade of roses!
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umm...smells good!
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The *dinosaur plants* that grow at the farm...weird, huh?
Pictures from Maribeth
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We trekked out to the waterless waterfalls!
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But those are some nice rocks...
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wait! we found a trickle...
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Mariyas horse had a lil baby...
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Jim really loved his wooden saddle....
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What is going on here!
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The christmas presentation
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They travelled all the way to Guayaquil to share it...it was wonderful
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A generous family gave the kids a day at the water park!
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Woohoo!
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We love to present dances!
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*Joseph & Mary*
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Singing christmas carols
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Telling jokes!
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A benefactor brings presents for all the children...
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Poor baby Maria Isabel was sick...
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The beautiful sisters, Evelin y Ginger
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Jazmany, dressed up as a clown, eating his goodies...
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Toca la guitarra, Fatima, toca!
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Careful with that lollipop...
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Happy baby!
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Silliness with Jim and Fernando!
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Silliness continues!
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Jorge Luis!
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Our first real sunset...
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What a view we have from our backyard!
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Merry Christmas! After Mass, we and the misioneras partied in Padres house!
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Gardenia!
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Lovely ladies!
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Las hermanas Marcela y Selena!
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Silliness with our *mom* Fatima
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We love doing this to Fatima...
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And she loves it back...haha...just kidding...
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Vacation days mean beach days!
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Mariya plays futbol!
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My bebe Roxana!
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The faces of Fatima
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Las hermanas Ortiz!
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Jim helps the missionaries present their New Years presentation.
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Happy New Year! Dancing until 4am...
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Went to Cuenca with Mariyas family...for the Indian Leg Wrestling Competition!
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Pensive by the river in Cuenca
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A girl from El Santuario, now living in Cuenca with the Mensajeros de la Paz
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She loved taking pictures with us!
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Beautiful Cuenca
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Them some pretty ladies...
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Enjoy that sangria!
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Cuenca!
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Salud!
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Brilliant idea - sell chocolate covered fruit on sticks...brilliant
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There be some monkeys in those trees
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Mariya wanted to be sure we had enough popcorn for the movie...and the next day.
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Fun in the kitchen
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Because Fatima Suarez loves UHU!
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For Fatima Suarezs birthday, the sisters present - Gloria Estefan!
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Nacho and Cheve presenting a love ballad for Fati Sua...
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We also had to make hats for the party...so Ecuadorian
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Thomas, with turban, dancing with the birthday girl
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And then the kids got my camera...
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Baile Padre, baile!
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Mariya was really into the party
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The kids still have my camera..
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Yep, you have to be 3.5 feet tall to get this shot...haha
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Our friend Kenny
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Los hermanos Gallardo!
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Some of my babies!
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Jamil y Joselo
More pics...keep clicking past the old...
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Fatima making do with our spoon shortage.
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The base from the beach
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Love of my life, Jorge Luis.
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I just cant get enough!
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Photo shoot on the beach
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Contemplative me
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Mariya, attempting The Thinking Man
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Photo shoot take 25
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HO-la
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Christmas card?
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I am funny
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Hola with olas! (waves)
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The biggest sandollar ever
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Translation - HI.
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M and our beatiful misioneras
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Happy Birthday Mb
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My birthday celebration with the chimbejas
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First Communion celebration
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First Communion
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First Communion
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Las Lagrimas
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Las Lagrimas presentation
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Las Lagrimas Mass
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Me and our mamita
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Almost all of the beautiful misioneras
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Mariya and her collegues
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Fatima, you said you would dance with me!
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What, can it be? Fatima is dancing?!
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Make a wish!
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Gettin' my groove on with Andrea
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The lovely Andrea and Cinthia celebrate their 15th birthday
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M with one of our new precious ones
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Mangos!
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Hanging out with our mamita Fatima and our tia Charito
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Mi Anita!
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Open house with of course, dancing!
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Dance dance dance!
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Rogger & David presenting on their cooking/enterprise class
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Presentation of local dishes
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Open house
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Mariya tries out one of the mind games in the math room, open house.
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Presentation, open house
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JAMIL!
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Mango faces...and mischief
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Celebrating 2 months ecuatorianas!
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Santiago asked me to dance...pretty much the cutest 12 year old there is
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Party once again!
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Yeah, we dance a lot
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A chimbeja takes a shot at photography
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lovely wall flowers
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Sassy Gaby
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Hermanas Gamez Patron
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Yep, you're cute
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Mariya tearin' it up
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Chimbejas in pink
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Chimbeja's presentation with the star of the show Angelica
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Gaby, the quincenera, dances with little brother Angel
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La familia Ortiz dance together...what a precious family.
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Fatima S. get's Jim on the dance floor
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No no no Jeem, you're not doing it right!
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My first bullfight
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Never thought guys could be cool with pink capes
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Good thing that horse is blindfolded
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Charge!
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Jim, Co y Yo at the bullfight
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the lovely companeras
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Co can't take the heat
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Crossing the river Napo to visit Ahuana
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Because Pd. Oscar is so cute...
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River Napo
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Clinic in Ahuana, run by the religious sisters
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"Pharmacy" in Ahuana
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Mariya encounters the famous monkeys in Misaugalli
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Monkey wants her head band
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Monkeys!
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Monkey on the light post
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Misaugalli at night
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Gotta love the edge of the amazon
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Valley of the jungle...amazon looks pretty cool eh?
Pictures from Maribeth
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Fatima making do with our spoon shortage.
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The base from the beach
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Love of my life, Jorge Luis.
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I just cant get enough!
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Photo shoot on the beach
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Contemplative me
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Mariya, attempting The Thinking Man
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Photo shoot take 25
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HO-la
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Christmas card?
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I am funny
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Hola with olas! (waves)
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The biggest sandollar ever
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Translation - HI.
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M and our beatiful misioneras
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Happy Birthday Mb
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My birthday celebration with the chimbejas
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First Communion celebration
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First Communion
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First Communion
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Las Lagrimas
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Las Lagrimas presentation
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Las Lagrimas Mass
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Me and our mamita
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Almost all of the beautiful misioneras
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Mariya and her collegues
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Fatima, you said you would dance with me!
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What, can it be? Fatima is dancing?!
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The lovely Andrea and Cinthia celebrate their 15th birthday
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M with one of our new precious ones
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Mangos!
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Hanging out with our mamita Fatima and our tia Charito
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Mi Anita!
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Open house with of course, dancing!
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Dance dance dance!
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Rogger & David presenting on their cooking/enterprise class
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Presentation of local dishes
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Open house
Pictures from Maribeth
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We got to meet Isabel - Cos beautiful baby girl
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Isabel sporting her FUS shirt
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View of El Santuario and our casita on the cliff
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My room at El Santuario in Casa Rosa Mistica
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The view from my window
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This is my backyard - literally 15 feet from my door.
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Culture night - the little girls presented on Saudi Arabia and danced for us.
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Mamita Isabel presented on Germany
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The nios did Ecuador - good choice!
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We have more pelicans than youd believe
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The precariously perched pelican
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Mariya y Fatima enjoy the view
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The view from the cliff behind our house
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Mariya and Fatima
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We help wash dishes & sing the theme to Titanic every night with the pre-community girls
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Ginger...I think she got herself more wet than the shoes she was washing...
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Our little girls or chimbijas
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Mas chimbijas
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y mas
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sonrisas bonitas!
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What happens when you try to organize the chimbijas for a picture
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Our highly trafficked street...
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Mariya and Pato enjoying the party
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One of the sibling groups that live at Casas Familiares
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Jennifer and her baby Naomi
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Some of the kids at Casas Familiares celebrating four birthdays
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Jorge...and his candy bar
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Gotta get dressed up to party
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Manny...our flower/tiger/clown
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Joanna, one of the missioneras and mamitas at Casas Familiares, joins in on the costume fun
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Jamil, our precious little amigo sporting his festive party mask
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Make a wish!
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The dining hall at the Port compound
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St. Francis would love these tables!
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The little houses have beds!
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And bathrooms!
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One of the retreat houses
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One of the retreat houses
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We have ten beautiful retreat houses at the Port compound - now we need missionaries!
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The beginnings of the Marian grotto
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Mariya and I with our hermano, Marciano.
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Cuye!
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Mariya and her delectable guinea pig
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Patas!
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See, Im really eating it...and its tasty!
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Our musical entertainment
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Two places at once - center of the world.
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