Greenway PA Farewell

I was going to call this post "The Greenway Grandparent's ABANDON their PA grandchildren", but I thought that would be a little bitter sounding! :-D (totally kidding)
In reality, while we will miss them, we are all excited for them to have this great adventure!
Here are some pictures of us at the Harrisburg Airport as we waited for them to take off!!

A Day of Firsts for the Richins

We've had some days of firsts around here! The first day of school, the first time riding the bus to school and the first haircut!

The first couple of pictures are Isaac's first day of school. Carlisle does what is called "staggered start kindergarten" The rest of the school district started school on Monday, but the kindergarten classes have a few students come for a few hours each day. Isaac's day was Wednesday afternoon from 1-3. This was the day that I discovered that I was the worst mom in the world. I misunderstood the e-mail that the school sent home. I understood it to be that the parents stayed with them the first day. The whole way to the school I was reassuring Isaac that I wasn't going to leave him, that I was going to be with him the whole time. . . OOPS! So we get there, we take them into their classroom, the teacher read everyone a story and then "invited" the parents to leave. Isaac was devastated! He just started to cry. "Mommy, you said you were staying!" and many other things that just broke my heart. But, the teacher was wise and asked him to be her special helper. That cheered him up immediately, and with the promise that I would be there when he was done, I left. He was excited to see me, but assured me that he'd had a great day and had "learned everything!".





After school we were hanging out at Grandpa and Grandma Greenway's for a little while. While discussing Sadie's hair (how cute it is, etc.) I mentioned that her bangs were starting to get in her eyes. Grandma suggested a quick haircut and I agreed. So, we wet down Sadie's hair and she got a trim. Thank goodness for binks (pacifier) and iPods. She watched a show on the iPod as Grandma added a few layers in the back and then trimmed up the bangs. Sadie (and Grandma) did a great job!




Today, September 1, was Isaac's official "FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL". This is where he got to be "grown-up" and ride the school bus all by himself! I got a few pictures of him before the bus came, but unfortunately it began to rain. It was kind of comical. We were standing at the end of the driveway, I was holding Sadie and an umbrella and Isaac was dancing about waiting for the bus. When it came, due to the lack of a third arm, I was unable to get any pictures of him actually getting on the bus or being on the bus. Maybe tomorrow. The funny thing about the whole scene; Isaac was fine getting on the bus (no emotional breakdowns), I was fine with him getting on the bus (totally distracted by Sadie, an umbrella and rain) but Sadie . . . The poor girl just started to cry!! She was so sad that Isaac was leaving. It will be interesting to see if it becomes a daily occurrence.

Gavin Goes to School

Gavin and Andrew on Gavin's first day of preschool!

I found this preschool that is run by an LDS lady that I met at a youth activity. So I asked her the prices of her preschool and she gave me her website. So now Gavin is going to a preschool every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Gavin calls his teacher Ms. Becky. Great lady! She has been teaching preschool and had child-care in her home for 13 years. Now she just does preschool. For Gavin's first day of preschool he painted these pictures of friends and a backpack. He learned "London Bridge is Falling Down". And he found out that on Wednesday he gets to learn about caterpillers. He is so excited. The benifit for me other than having only one child for a bit? It's a 3.5 mile walk round trip. I'll be losin' inches here pretty quick!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

Our First Family Vacation!

So, after not returning to my homeland Florida after a little over 2 years I got homesick and Joel relented and let this be our first family vacation!

As you can see the 1st day after traveling was a catch up day before the fun began, Logan was so tired that if we tried to lift the pillow he would start to cry so he slept with a pillow that he himself put over himself.


We decided to try Logan out on the pool and see how he liked it and of course he loved it!

Aren't my toes sooo pretty?!

We did get a chance to go to I-Drive and get some brazilian food! yum! (Logan slept while we ate in his car seat next to us)

Next was the main event... DISNEY! Joel has never been so we went, and to start it off we took the boat across to Magic Kingdom with Brenda, Renee, Marvin, and Sheppy!


And Logan was excited...


We took Logan to see the real Pirates of the Carribean and Renee (a friend) our "nanny" came along to help with the kids :)
Logan wasn't that happy about waiting in line... he fell asleep and slept through the whole ride...
Of course we HAD to make it to the new STAR WARS 3-D ride

And we made the 3-D glasses look cool
Joel wants this for Christmas...
And one of these...

I was not ready to go...

So we stopped at Hollywood Stuidos and Epcot!

Next was the beach and we went to New Symerna and Logan LOVED IT!

By the end of the time at the beach, Logan ate 5 lbs of sand and 10 gallons of salt water... ewww

We took one of our last days to visit with my sister Jenny and her husband Dave which was a blast!
Sammy (her son) ruled the Wii
While Logan loved up on Rachel (her daughter)

We hung out at the beach with them and then went to an amazing pizza parlor oh sooo good!

Last but not least we made it to the temple where we did sealings it was the highlight of the trip to go back to where we were married and of course it was stormy...

The end

More info!

I thought you might like to know our address for the next little while.

Letters or packages:

Elder Ronald D. and Sister Melanie Greenway

Indonesia Jakarta Mission

Jalan Senopati 115

Kebayoran Baru

Jakarta 12190

Indonesia

Phone: 62 21-7279-0074

or!

(our name)

Indonesia Jakarta Mission

Provo Missionary Training Center *(we will be getting a PO box # when we get there)

2005 N 900 E.

Provo, UT 84604

We're getting about THERE as far as ready is concerned. We are speaking this Sunday in Church, and the Act. Day Girls are singing. I am having a Indonesia Night this Friday at the house for my girls. No sleepover! Then we start to close things up. I haven't been released from any of my callings yet, so life just goes on!!!

Good Byes are very hard....

But we are excited to say "hallo, kita adalah missionaris bagi Gereja Yesus Kristus Orang-orang Suci Zaman Akhir!

Mom & Dad

EXCITING

Here is a map of our Mission Area. Maybe you can keep track of us by using this map or one you have at your home. We probably will be in Central Java. That is the island that Jakarta is on, but much further east of Jakarta! Kami adalah senang untuk melayani missi di Indonesia!