Love this song!

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I love this guy.  A man of God blessed with a talent for making music.  His songs always seem to relax me when things are tough and re-focus my attention when I am distracted.  Listen to the story that his lyrics tell.  

A little Rick Steves in the neighborhood

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I love all kinds of music and musical instruments, however the accordion was one instrument that I could never really figure out.  I always thought the accordion was a random forgotten instrument that should have been left in the attic.  The sound of it conjures up memories of watching the Rick Steves' European travel show on PBS.  I can picture him sitting at a seaside cafe in a small European town sipping his coffee and listening to the street musicians.

Well, we have our own street musicians here, and the odd thing is I really enjoy it!  On a number of occasions I have seen an middle aged man and his son walking up and down the neighborhood streets gracing us with their music.

Pretty neat!

You've heard of Spanglish...what about Russkish?

Oh, how I long for the days of learning uno, dos, tres, and me llama Adam.  I re-confirmed my assumptions that I didn't have a knack for foreign language learning when I had to learn Greek.  Next was Azeri, then Turkish, and now Russian.  I keep telling myself that I am going to start picking up the next language with more ease, but I find myself more frustrated and longing for the last language that I couldn't wait to put behind me.

I write this blog to 1) confess that this is a huge hill I am looking up at, and 2) that I need your prayers!  We have a really good teacher who meets us at our friend's house for lessons.  Our teacher is Uzbek, that is communicating with us in Turkish and teaching us Russian (hmm...yeah).  Sometimes I find myself trying to figure out if what she just said was Russian or Turkish...it's all starting to blend together.  I'm going to come away speaking Russkish.  The class is going pretty well, Stephanie gets a lot more "bravos" than I do, but I can get the teacher to laugh more (too bad it's at me).  We have a book that is about an inch thick that she keeps promising we will complete before we leave in about 6 weeks.  I am hoping that we can slow down a bit so I can absorb more.

Пожалуйста, молитесь за нас в ближайшие пару лет, что мы будем верны, то мы будем мотивированы, и что мы будем завоевывать этот трудный язык 

Post Retraction (Definitely required!)

So I need to make a clarification!!!

The ambiguous picture was not meant to trigger the amount of rumors that it did :)  We were simply trying to show off our creative abilities, since neither Stephanie or I are very creative.  We made the diaper cake for some friends.

However, when the time comes, we will definitely take some of the advice, and possible names that we were recommended :)

Sorry for the false alarm.  (but it was kind of fun).

What do you think?