That's how we do it in Dominica!

So yesterday the boys and I went to the river with some friends to feed the fish and to fish! We brought bread crumbs with us and off we went. It was the same exact location as the baptism that I wrote about a few weeks ago. It was so cool! When the kiddos threw in the bread crumbs the fish came like crazy and started to eat it. Then our awesome friends that we went with brought some regular sticks with fishing lines on them and we were able to catch some fish! It was pretty ghetto but pretty awesome too. I am learning that anything goes here in Dominica. Use whatever you can find to do what you gotta do. :) and so a fishing line on a stick was as good as any fishing pole you could buy.  All of the little kids took turns fishing and each of then actually caught one every time! It was pretty cool. We didn't keep them, we just threw them back in, but the Hmong-ness in me was like, "Wait! Don't throw that fish back in there, we can eat it for dinner! What are you doing throwing that fish back in?!" LOL, but then I thought about it and was like..."Who is going to kill and gut the fish...I know I'm not and Fi Dan isn't going to...oh well." I definitely need my mom or dad for that. But maybe next time I'll change my mind and keep the fish and try it by myself!

 Trying to throw rocks into the river.

Woo! Our first fish! 

Our friends. 

You can't see his fish very well, but it's there! 

Ry's fish! 

 The fish started flopping around and Ry got super scared. Nenji is holding his fish in that shirt and is about to let his fish go into the river. 

Today there was another baptism except this time it was at the beach...again, amazing. This time it was one of our friends' son who got baptized. The scenery was so beautiful...but it was so dang hot. Plus the kids were playing in the water so we couldn't even hear the talks. But it was nice to just be there and see Joshua get baptized. I'm telling you, even though I complain a lot about being here, I am also grateful because I am experiencing things I never would have back in the states and I am growing so much everyday. I always remind myself to just live in the moment and enjoy the time here on the island because it's only 11 more months and then we're back in the states forever! So...I'm starting to really like the island life and how you just gotta learn to roll with it here. :)

On the way to the beach. 

It looks beautiful but let me tell you, if you could feel the humidity and heat...it doesn't feel so beautiful.

 Yay! We made it. :)

Look at that little chubster! 

 His sand castle.

 Playing with the sand instead of listening to the talks.

Yup...it was a really nice day. 

 Enjoying snacks under the shade. Such a nice day. 

Daddy and his little silly baby. I love them! :D

I don't want to look at you.

LOL, here's another one. I was changing Spencer's diaper on the bed and Rylan decided to be Spiderman and started jumping on the bed right above baby's head. Naturally, I told him to stop or go jump on the other bed so he sad down and told me, "I don't want to look at you." LOL, I love his little mad face. 

Portsmouth Market & our house

So every Saturday there is an outdoor maker that I go to. It's past the church so it's quite a walk so I always take a transport. I usually go with some if the ladies in the church, but this weekend we all needed to go at different times. So this Saturday, Nenji was my partner. Besides, people here are wayyyyyy nicer to you when they see you have a kid.
Nenji was so excited. We woke up at 6 and took a transport. As you can see from his picture he loves not having to sit in a carseat, but I absolutely hate it! Every time we go around a curve I have to hide my terrified face so I don't offend the driver.
At the market you can get veggies for cheaper and there are some veggies that are only sold at the Saturday market. Plus you can haggle with them, but I'm not a great haggler, I usually just say ok...but every week I am getting better.
I also have a picture of a lady cutting open a coconut with a machete...scary but cool. And then there's some pictures of our road and house. :)

He's so happy here. If only he knew the kind of danger he were in, he wouldn't be smiling so big. 

Just enjoying the view. 

Fresh Coconut Juice! And I was wondering if her shirt stood for "Salt Lake City". :)

This is the road to our house from the main street. Our house is to the left with the green roof.

It's kinda like duplex. We live to the unit on the right in the picture, we have neighbors to the left and upstairs too. 

Another view of the house. 

This is our little yard. It's actually pretty nice because the boys can just go out and run around. And our house is really the one around that has a yard of any sort. Most people just have a fence. That's one thing we like about where we live right now. 

Another reason...

Ry is crying because he thinks that eating bread will turn him into a "fee fi fo fum Giant, and I don't want to be a fee fi fo fum giant!!!!!!" Those, my friends, were his exact words. Where he got this idea from....I have no idea. This is definitely my favorite reason so far.

Baptism in a River

Last Saturday we went to a baptism. It was such a cool and neat experience. Jenny, a woman from China, got baptized. I loves it because it wasn't a regular baptismal font, it was a river! It was such an amazing experience and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to be apart of it! Here's a few shots of the baptism site. So cool!

Daddy's playing Street Hockey

So Fi Dan has decided to join an intramural street hockey team. It consists of him and and some of his good buddies from last semester.  It was fun to get out and spend time as a family. The boys absolutely loved watching their dad play hockey. They were cheering and yelling and making a big scene....but it was so cute.
Here at Ross, I feel like people like to stare at me and the boys. There are a handful of families...but I think there are only about 3 families that have more than 2 kids all under the age if 5. So that makes us a rare site to see.
Here are some random pictures of the boys and then some are of us at the hockey game. Good times!

Nice Weather!

The weather here has gotten a lot better this past week. It's been cloudy with a little bit of a breeze! Yesterday we went to a cook out and got some free dinner! Yay! We love free stuff. :) And the scenery was beautiful!

Today, the boys and I went swimming. This is Nenji's second time swimming and he's already swimming floating like a pro! He loves to put on his little floaters and just "swim" around the pool. He's so cute. I can tell he's a little scared sometimes when he's tired, but I'll hear him singing Dori's song (from Finding Nemo), "Just keep swimming, just keeping swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming". Even when I ask if he needs me to help pull him in, he'll just say, "Nope, I got it. I'm brave and I can swim".

Ry on the other hand is hilarious! The first day that we went to the pool he had his floaters on and he just jumped in! Very typical Rylan. He freaked out and now he refuses to let me go when he's in the pool. He'll just sit by the steps until I can help him. And he'll only sit on the steps where the water goes up to his ankles. If you ask him to sit on the step where the water goes up to waist he'll just yell and tell you no. But today one of the girls from church brought her baby flotation device today, and he thought was the bomb. He was floating in it and was telling Nenji and he's braver than Nenji. It was so funny!

My little Spencer loves the water! He'll go in and he's super calm. He'll splash around and he has so much fun! He goes in for about 10 minutes and then he's pooped. That's all he can handle for now. But I'm grateful  that the weather has been so nice to us! :)