More Christmas

What a great Christmas we had and a great birthday party for Jesus.

Christmas

Well its been a while since we updated the blog and since we never got around to sending out Christmas cards - atleast we can post a couple pics of the kids here.
Enjoy!!

Latest Fishing Trip

Its been quite a while since we have updated our family blog - sorry about that. Anyway, here are some pictures from the latest deep sea fishing trip. Kisan, Kevin and Bobby went this time and they all had a great time. Here are a couple pictures from the trip.



Kevin - 1st flounder

New York

Well, I am really behind on getting the family blog updated but here are some pictures from our trip to New York City from this summer and being on Good Morning America (in the audience).


Family at Good Morning America (now that was an early morning)

Sweet picture of kids with their daddy

Entire family on Ellis Island - with lower Manhattan in the background

Kevin - at the Statue of Liberty

Biggest fish so far

Kisan and Kevin's favorite thing to do is go fishing. Well, Kevin got a BIG one this itme......a 35lb amberjack.

Kindergarten Graduation

We are so proud of Kaitlyn. Here are a few pictures from kindergarten graduation. What a great group of kids.
Kaitlyn was Hannah Honey

What a cute picture - she was the last one to get her diploma

Kaitlyn and friends at graduation

Here are some pictures of Kate with her friends from kindergarten.

Kaitlyn - lack of teeth

We just had to take a picture to remember how cute she looks! She is now missing her two top teeth and two teeth on the bottom. Isn't she adorable!!

Awards night

This year, the children surprised us at awards night. We knew Kaitlyn would get perfect attendance but didn't think she would get any other awards. We were thrilled when she made A-B honor roll and most improved in reading!!! Yeah!!!



Kevin received the history award for 5th grade which was just awesome.



Thanks kids for being the best you can be - we love you!!!

Catch of the Day!!

Kevin has become quite the fisherman these days. Mr. and Mrs. Starmer gave him a a gift certificate and he got a new tackle box which is not full of all his fish 'stuff'. Anyway, here is a picture of the carp he caught today. I wish we had a picture of Kisan and Kaitlyn though.......Kaitlyn fell in the river head first so Kisan had to jump in after her (clothes/shoes and all). That would have been a great picture!!

Best Singin group this side of the Mississippi

Well, the phrase is a stolen phrase from our preacher! He always says that when the Pee Wee Patch singing group sings at church (I just love that)! They sing tonight so I will have pictures uploaded by tomorrow (hopefully in a Smilebox)...gotta broaden my techie skills abit.

Stay tuned - there will also be a recent picture of Kaitlyn (she is missing her two front teeth) which is just precious.

March Snow

Just noticed that my last three post all have winter scenes - although I have a bad case of spring fever!! Dad had to work so the kids and I went to the hill in front of the school to sled.....boy did we have a great time!!





Kevin wanted snow cream so bad - he kept eating snow. Actually we were so tired after sledding for three hours - we never did make that snow cream did we ???


I love this picture - Kaitlyn was so freezing cold we had to take her socks off and turn the heat on high to warm her toes. I couldn't resist taking the picture. She is wiped out - can you tell??

Liberty Homecoming - 2008

Well, the day has finally arrived. Kaitlyn has been so excited that she counts down the days on the calendar. I am so thankful that she gets to have this experience. Just think - 6 years ago she was a little baby in Nepal......and tonight she will be (for a moment)a princess. But to me, she will always be my little princess.

January 2009 - Snow in North Carolina

What a great site to wake up to this morning - snow!! School was closed and no basketball game tonight so a full day off for the children.

A snowman before 7:30am - it was a busy day for the Upadhaya children




The kids came to work with mom today so at lunchtime we went outside of Davison and had a snowball fight. It was friendly - well sort of.

Mendies Haven

We are very excited to say that with your help, we were able to send $1500 to Mendies Haven for the children for Christmas. Charles & Susan and David and Jessica have moved to Nepal and are getting settled.

They have started a webpage for Mendies Haven that has information about all the children (there is a link from our blog). Please continue to pray for Mendies Haven, the Mendies family in their transition to Nepal and especially the children.