After watching General Conference on DVD and having a great lunch of injera and shiro wat with tibs at the church, we were invited to Amen's 1st birthday celebration at Tesfaye's and Marta's.  Our grandson, Cooper, turns 2 on May 28th, but since we are moving to Addis this week, for 3 months, to take over in the mission office for the Preators, who go home this Sunday, we decided to make and take cookies for a birthday treat for Cooper's and Amen's birthdays.  Next Sunday is our last Sunday in Debre Zeyit.  We will REALLY miss our friends and branch here!!! : /  We will be visiting a different branch each Sunday to keep in touch with the missionaries and branch presidents, so we will be back a few times to visit! Here are a few photos from Amen's party...

Amen, in his traditional Ethiopian clothes,

 with his dad, Tesfaye

Celebrating Amen's 1st birthday and our grandson

Cooper's 2nd birthday (in the photo) with Holiday Nugget cookies

Amen's birthday bread with a 1 candle in it

(They do bread instead of cake.  The water bottles are filled with a

 special holiday and birthday drink made from barley. 

We had orange Fanta instead.)

Our plate of birthday goodies

There was popcorn too but it got eaten first.

Elder Wold with Edalawit (3)

She LOVES to copy the faces he makes! 

We opened the gate to back out of our compound yesterday and 

this is what greeted us! We never know what we will see in our

neighborhood! The cow was looking in our gate but moved by 

the time I got my camera out! (Bob is wearing a new Ethiopian

tie with a pattern representing one of the tribes down south.)