We have two Chinese students staying with us for 2 weeks. He Haocheng (Frank) and Liu Bing Xiu (Oliver) are part of a group of students from Nanchong, Sichuan province, China who are studying English and American culture in Oregon this summer. They choose American names to make it easier for us to say their names. We went hiking to Mill Creek Falls and Avenue of the Giant Boulders on Saturday.
This is Abe sitting on a giant boulder.
And Sofi sliding down one.
The river is very low this year so there was more beach to play on than usual. There was also a shallow pool alongside the river.
Frank (He Haocheng) showed us how to write his name in Chinese characters and in Pinyin, the phonetic way to write Chinese. He then showed us how to write each of our names in Chinese with characters and phonetically. From the top, the names are Becky, Helen, Abe, Gibson, Brandan and Sofi.
We started a fun family history project with our kids this week. We got family history Bingo cards from a neighboring stake. The kids cross off squares by doing the activity listed on the square. When they get a Bingo, they can choose a prize (Helen chose mints for her first Bingo.) Anyone who gets a blackout gets to go out for frozen yogurt at the end of the month. The activities are things like "print a fan chart on FamilySearch" and "find an ancestor on findagrave.com."
Here is one more food photo from Sofi's personal progress project. At Brandan's family reunion, some of his cousins remembered Grandma Beth serving them Fruit Loops and ice cream for breakfast when they visited her. They served this dish at the reunion in her memory. It tastes like it looks.
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