Even though I was able to get the dirt Lorena brought to the house unloaded into our patio planter, nothing else got done on the lawn because I spent the entire weekend working at ATS programming serial port drivers using QNX. It was very interesting, but no fun to spend the weekend away from the kids. We DID buy new cell phones for Lorena and I.

While we were buying our cell phones, we saw a sign that advertised phone calling to Monterrey, Mexico for only 2.9 cents per minute. We bought $50 worth of calls and then found that the price had dropped to only 2.5 cents per minute. Amazing. That is really going to change our lives because we can now talk to Lorena’s parents Lauro and Conchita as much as we want. We made calls to Dayana, Conchita, and Jorge over the weekend. It was great to let Lorena talk for an hour and not worry our bug her about how much it cost.

The kids are having a great summer swimming and playing around our new neighborhood. They gathered sticks for a craft project on Sunday afternoon. There is a new little girl with whom they have become friends that they meet at meeting. Her name is Crystal and she goes to meeting with Cal and Lily. Her great uncle is a guy named John who takes his great nephew to another meeting, but he is older and does not feel he can handle two kids, so Cal and Lily help him out by taking Crystal. We really need to invite Crystal over to play soon as she is a sweet girl and just loves Kelly.