Easter Sunday in our Karen dresses. ❤
Two women I taught English to every weekday morning for six months. Love them.
After attending an educational award ceremony for Day Mu (in the red), we celebrated back at her apartment. 
Spending one of the first nice days of 2018 outside with some of my favorite women. Day Mu was painting my nails and we all talked for hours in the sunshine.
One of the countless days I have spent teaching. Cherished moments in my living room. 
The girls I did makeup for before prom. 🙂
Didn’t they look beautiful for prom??!
All ready for prom after our photoshoot. 🙂
Eating dinner in their prom dresses in my living room. ❤
Olivia doing Chit’s hair for prom. 🙂
One day maybe seven kids came over to Brett and Jeff’s to help dig holes and plant some bushes. The kids loved it. 
Supporting a Karen church fundraiser at the park, eating spicy food. 🙂
Playing hacky sack with a chi loh ball behind the apartments.
Hser Boe Paw’s car accident. So happy everyone was okay. 🙂
Took Day Mu and a couple other Karen women friends to a free day at the Botanical Gardens.
Spent a misty afternoon at the lake with Day Mu’s family grilling out 
Dying Moo Paw’s long beautiful hair in Hser Boe Paw’s living room. 
After I had taught all morning, some women were still working and others were just hanging out. ❤
6th grade graduation for one of our boys we see every day (Hser Gay Moo’s brother, Nay Lay Htoo.)
Attending Chit They Oo’s high school graduation was such a proud moment. ❤
Bretty treating all of us to their first Omaha Farmer’s Market
The beginning of our relationship with these boys. Such a special weekend camping with them on the first weekend of Summer break. 
One of the many summer outings with my people
We had been to the zoo in the morning and then we were all starving when we got back. Lunch in my living room (and if you’re wondering, those are packages of seaweed. My FAVORITE with rice and salmon). 
On the morning of my birthday I had some favorite surprise visitors who brought me cake and gifts. So kind!
Robbie with Nay Lay Htoo. They have a special bond. 
One of about a million swimming pool trips. These girls are little fishes and never stopped begging for me to teach them how to swim. They got pretty darn good by the end of the summer.
With my friend Christiana. The girls and I loved showing off the gardens in the back all summer long to all our visitors.
These boys love Robbie and Robbie admittedly adores them too. 
Eh Gay Moo and I have the sweetest little friendship. 
Panicked hair cuts in the garden. hahahaha
Always with each other making memories. They’re my world. 
Fourth of July in the overalls we got our girls. They were so excited about it. 
Fourth of July celebrating freedom with people who appreciate it the most. 
Went for ice cream at Bucky’s and they gave it to us for free. So spoiled. 🙂
Ler Htee Moo’s sixteenth birthday 🙂
Hanging out in the stairwell of our apartments 🙂
Robbie and some of the boys crushing hot chili peppers into flakes. It was so spicy that even walking outside it felt like mace was in my eyes and throat. I just breathed in and couldn’t stop coughing. haha
Hilarious picture of Dustin flipping the boys at the lake. 
I look at this picture and just feel so full of love for my boys
Big dinner at the lake with Miki and Dustin 🙂
Making homemade cinnamon rolls with Brett at her house 🙂
That day they gave Cooper a Karen name and it was so funny. We called him “Ku Paw” all day.
More swimming and more swimming 🙂
One of a thousand nights we sat and watched the boys play chi loh. A rare moment when Robbie wasn’t actually in the game himself. 
A common summer day when a million kids were over to hang out. This day we watched Chicken Run. Usually we were outside playing.
One day we packed the car so full of people and free clothes from a donation center.
Paw La’s family visited Omaha from Norway (they immigrated there from Thailand) and we celebrated with tons of food. 
Zoo day 🙂
Ler Htee Moo and his sister Moo Paw with Moo Paw’s daughter and their youngest sister in my lap in their living room. Love them soooo much. 
After a doctor appointment for Moo Paw’s daughter, we spoiled ourselves with McDonalds
Eating the McDonald’s on the playground at the apartment. 
At one of a million doctor appointments.
After a night teaching the boys how to drive a car, we went out for slushies.
One of the countless nights the boys came over in the evening for video games and snacks.
Second camping trip of the summer. SO fun.
A day at the river with so many friends.
We grilled sausage and brought a ton of rice and had the best day at the river
One of the countless horror movie nights in our apartment. I’ll never forget it.
Chat Htoo, Thing Aye, Lay Kyi, and Tha Wah with me in the garden.
After getting Moo Paw her license plates, I grabbed a couple of my sweet helpful boys and got them on the car for her. 
The day we crammed a bunch of women into the car when we returned the big tv to walmart. SO funny.
Moo Tee getting her eyes checked at the doctor for the first time 
Teaching and more teaching
Waiting at the food pantry
Kayaking on the river.
Ler Htee Moo and Moo Paw’s dad. He’s the best.
A lazy Saturday afternoon building things and watching the Husker game. 
My loves. 🙂
Braiding so much hair.
Celebrating Day Mu’s birthday and taking her to her first coffee shop
More hair dying
Another lunch on a day off of school with my favorite people. Wishing Robbie was there.
Picked up cheap pizzas and had a picnic at Memorial Park. 
Chat Htoo’s birthday we served ice cream to all the kids.
Bonfire night and Hser Gay Moo actually asleep on my lap 
Watching Christopher Robin at the theatres for Chat Htoo’s 12th birthday
The evening another Karen apartment got evacuated for being in such poor condition. We celebrated that we were all still together with food and then worship in our living room.
My friend Jessy and her baby Carmen entertaining Moo Paw’s family 🙂
Worship night in our living room
Aren’t they beautiful?? Best Buddies
Robbie + Chase 