We celebrated Valentine’s Day a day early (since Saturday night we’re busy with our Khmer service). It ended up being a day full of celebrations. Friday morning we went to the wedding of Plin and Loai. Loai is Pastor Chuol’s widow, and Plin is a widower who lives in the US (Khmer Jarai American citizen). We had them over for dinner the Tuesday night before. Josh preached the wedding sermon.

Josh took the boys to BL in the late afternoon (originally he was planning to go to take a baby to see a doctor, but the parents didn’t show up). The boys did errands, and Josh bought flowers for all his girls. The boys got to pick out candy at the store. When Maria got her rose she said, “Daddy, you’re a good Dad.”

Friday evening we made heart-shaped pizzas for dinner and ate sugar cookies for dessert. We were planning to decorate the cookies, but everyone was full and decided we could decorate the big cookies another day. Josh read our book about St. Valentine, and then we passed out cards. Passing out cards takes quite a while as each person gives out his/her cards individually, and then the person receiving the card takes time to look at it. Maria was very pleased to be able to pass her cards. It was a very fun time for all of us. After the cards, we gave each kid a new book and then Josh read two of the books aloud.