Pendragon Filming 6

Ever tried shooting an epic film with no electricity...makes life exciting for sure :) Read about the experience on the Pendragon blog.

Pendragon

They have some pictures up from another scene, unfortunately I wasn't there when they shot this scene. (blog link can be found in the sidebar)

In the Air Again

Just letting you all know that I'm headed back to Michigan tomorrow for two weeks. I'll be helping film and edit on Pendragon!! Keep praying for the team as they (we) work towards completing the filming in the next couple of weeks.

Homeschooling Illegal?

"In February, a California state appeals court ruled that unless parents have recognized teaching credentials, they must send their children to school. The judge, citing a state education law, said that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children.” Parents and politicians were outraged, and the court will rehear the case this month."

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Dad the Hero and the WILD WILD WEST

The premiere is coming up! Check out the new trailer!

Pendragon Updates

They have updated their blog a couple of times...hopefully you have been checking it ;)

Mexico Update 3

Back home in the USA! It was a great trip but we are still glad to be back home :) I will be posting more later.

Mexico Update 2

Here is a "quick" update from south of the border. :)

Our time in the schools went really well!! We taught the character quality of Truthfulness in the kindergarten schools and the quality of Forgiveness in the Elementary schools.

It is hard to get pictures and video because they make the whole family sit in front of the school group but I still managed to get a little here and a little there :) We has 3 schools last Thursday and 2 schools last Friday.

After each school presentation they would provide a "snack" for us. It was more like lunch :P A new food we had was Pastes. Pachuca is known for mining for minerals and when the men would go into the mines they needed something that was easy to carry for lunch.....thus the Paste. We had Pastes quite often while in Pachuca which is fine with me cause they are REALLY good! It's kind of like a flaky crescent roll type of bread with potatoes-like hash browns (papa) or beans (frijoles) inside. I like to think of them as a Mexican egg roll :D They are also somewhat spicy (there isn't much in MX that isn't) and oddly enough the very first one I had must have been the "chili special paste" :D cause it was MAJORLY hot!

We also went to visit the pyramid of the sun and the pyramid of the moon on Wednesday on our way to Pachuca.

On Saturday we went to see the Prismas (natural rock formations and waterfalls) the countryside there is very beautiful. Oklahoma looks "flat" compared to that :)

While in Pachuca the girls stayed with one family and the boys stayed with another family. Fortunately there was someone who spoke some English in each family :D

I know I had a lot of fun with Sylvia and Moricio trying to play games!

Abril was our interpreter in most of the schools (and anywhere else that we took her along.) She is the daughter of the family that the girls stayed with and she did a great job. (she also answered a lot of questions - "what does this say?" - "what does this word mean in English?")

Abbie would play her violin at the end of each presentation and one time they called her back for an encore - TWICE! :D

Today, we spent some time sharing testimonies in a church then drove to Guadalajara where we will be staying till we fly home. Actually, tomorrow we are going to spend a day in Puerto Vallarta :p I don't think we will be going to any schools here, but we will be sharing our testimonies at some of the trainings that dad is doing. At least that is the current plan...we have found that plans can change rather quickly.

Adios! (thanks to my mom and brother Caleb for the pictures!)

Mexico Update 1

We made it to Mexico City! It is taking a while to adjust to the new altitude and environment. The past couple of days we have been practicing our presentations, enjoying REAL Mexican food (yes, I said enjoying) and we even managed to slip in a little site seeing :)

I have taken a good bit of video and my siblings are taking lots of pictures. Unfortunately they haven't had time to get any pictures on the computer, so I will have to post pictures later.

REAL Mexican food has included cow tongue cooked with green tomatoes and green olives (tasted really good) ....we had mushrooms (which I don't generally like) but they were cooked in something that turned out good! :P In the mornings we've had cereal and yogurt and normal American food. This morning they fixed a breakfast tamale made from fresh corn and sugar, we all liked them (I think everyone did) Their way of making sandwiches are called Tortas and are very similar to a Subway sandwich, we usually have those for lunch.

I know I've spent most of my time talking about food, but its hard to describe anything else...I'll pictures later. The traffic is pretty crazy but I find it rather fun ;) There aren't a lot of bugs here (beside mosquitoes) and its a good thing because the houses don't seem to be quite open, such as cracks under doors. The houses don't seem to be very sealed, they have more of an open air feeling than our houses back home. The plants and flowers here are really pretty. Oh, and we've had fun trying to translate signs and really just anything that is written in Spanish. It's also been fun to listen to people and see if we can understand what they are saying - we are getting better. :D

Overall it's going well, we are now headed to Pachuca for 4 days where we will begin going to schools and doing our presentations.

Keep praying for us!
-since blog updates will be rather sporadic you can enter your email in the "email update box" in the sidebar and whenever I update the blog it will send you an email that evening. Or you can check the blog everyday if you want :p
-one more thing, i am not answering my cell phone because of international phone service ($$) so if I need to know something, please send me an email. (it still might be a while before I can get back to you)

Family Flight

Our family is headed to Mexico for a couple of weeks! Dad will be doing some CharacterFirst! trainings while the rest of the family will be in schools, orphanages and also assisting dad with several Family Seminars. Oh, we do have a couple of days to site-see and take in the country :) This will also be the first time for our whole family to fly together - should be fun!

Most of our family hasn't been outside the USA before and this will also be a first time for us to do these kind of presentations by ourselves. We are quite aware that we are very unable to pull off such a task and that we must rely on God's strength. Please be praying for us, for safety and that we will rely on God's grace to complete each opportunity that He brings!

I don't know what blogging conditions will be like south of the border...but I know that we will have lots of pictures when we get back....and lots of great stories :) We leave on May 26th are scheduled to be back on June 6th.