Busy Day

Hi everyone! Today was a busy but fun day. This morning Trey preached at Rákoscsabai Baptista Gyülekezet. I forgot (so sorry!!!) to take a picture of the wonderful family that took us to eat lunch afterwards. I will have to add a pic of them another time but we had so much fun with them. I am including a picture of the church. We have had a relationship with this church for over a year now and really enjoy visiting them. The church is about an hour from us so we don't get to go really often but always enjoy seeing them. They are interested in working with us here. After a long yummie Hungarian lunch we headed home for about one hour and then to our church tonight. Trey got to preach tonight also and it was great! Our friends Gábor and Szilvi came with us. Here are some pics from today. From top to bottom: Dávid, Szilárd, Lily and Dia (Gábor and Szilvi's daughter), and the Baptist Church.

Now we're talkin'!

Hello again! We forgot to take our camera and take a pic of Anikó who tests our language abilities, but we just wanted to let you know the good news that we both did well and only have to be tested every four months now!!!!!! Here are Ron and Robin...they have 3 children Robert, Renald, and Rebekah and have lived in Hungary for about 12 years now....Robin takes care of all language for us here in Hungary, like arranging tests for us, encouraging us, etc. She and Ron (who is the SC for Western Hungary) are also our mentors.

Erzsi and Ferenc

Hello everyone! We had a fun time at Erzsi and Ferenc's house for our Thurs. night English/Bible group. Here is a pic. of some of us.

Museum of Natural History

We took the kids to the Hungarian Museum of Natural History this past weekend. The museum is in an old theater and has a really cool entrance (with the skeleton of a huge whale over your head). They also had a huge Noah's Ark there full of animals. Anyway, the kids had a good time seeing lots of examples of the Hungarian wildlife. One of the real joys about living here are the museums and just how fun it is to take the kids to places like that. Enjoy the pics.

The Shaws

Szület egy sztár!

DO YOU SPEAK MAGYARUL?

Ok, so I was on TV last night. Actually a program ran a story on foreigners who are learning Hungarian. My teacher was interviewed (the man in the button-down at about the 8:00 min. mark) and they threw me in for filler. Click this link http://www.mtv.hu/cikk.php?id=180545 and then press play. If you are using high speed you can click the 100k link just above the player and the quality is a little better. Also, just fast forward to about 7:25 and you will see me attempting to pronounce some words with the program my teacher developed.

Végre - Finally

Well, we finally got our first snow of the winter but it was little more than a dusting. This winter has been so strange. This time last year we had already had several heavy snows, but this year we have had days where we could go without a jacket during the day. Anyway, hope all is well with everyone.

The Shaws

Checking in

We have been pretty busy these days. Our friends, the Pollards, have just returned from stateside assignment and will be living in Bp now. We are so excited to have them here. They have two little girls just about Lily's age so she is pretty happy too. We met them and our friends serving in Czech, Steve and April Brown, for their son's birthday party. They are here for knee surgery for Steve (sound familiar?). The kids in the picture are from left to right: Sophie Brown, Lily, Vance Brown, Alexander, Abby Pollard, Chloe Brown and Chloe Pollard. Steve is in the background mourning OSU's destruction. The other picture is of April Brown and Karen Pollard. We thought you all would like to meet some of our friends.

Love to all,

The Shaws

Obligatory sunset picture

I think one of the good things about this blog is that we get to share things that we see or do everyday. Things that we might not ever mention suddenly get documented. And you, our favorite readers, get to see them too. This is one of those things.

I know sunsets are never as beautiful in a photo as they are in person but here is one anyway. This was the view yesterday afternoon/evening from our balcony.

River walk

We took a walk with the kids down to the Danube this morning. The weather has been beautiful and today was especially nice. Just about a mile away from us is an area of the river with cafes and a playground (except everything is closed in the winter) called Római Part or Roman Shore. This was the boundary of the Roman Empire about 1900 years ago. Now it is a good place for fried fish and lángos. You'll have to come visit to experience lángos. Love to all.

The Shaws

Just keeping up

We have been pretty busy since New Year's but we wanted to just check in. The kids are back into the flow of school. The weather has been really nice and warm. Much warmer than normal. This time last year it had snowed several times and we never got out of the thirties. This year we have had several days in the fifties. We will surely take it.

The picture of Bryan is just one that I liked.

Love to all,

Trey (and the rest)

Mega Bionicle

Hi everyone. Bryan combined three of his bionicles into one big guy and a small guy. Here they are. Enjoy:)

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone. We are sorry it has been awhile since we last posted. We have been recovering from colds (Denise) and black eyes (see above). Lily and Alexander were playing "horsey" and Alexander's head met Lily's eye. She calls it her rainbow eye. We had a nice, peaceful Christmas eve and then Christmas day. Everything shuts down here from the evening of the 24th to the morning of the 27th so we had a lot of good family time at home. Our teammate Joey came over for dessert and coffee on Christmas night. We had a quiet New Year's Eve at home. All of the kids stayed awake and we watched Little House on the Prairie (we got the DVDs for Christmas from America). Anyway...we hope you all had a good Christmas and blessings to you all in the year ahead!!