Welcome to our home!

We want to show you some pictures of our house while sharing a part of our lives and what we've been up to this past week. We love our house and are slowly turning it into our home!

Fortunately, this is NOT it! This one screams YELLOW! Ours whispers golden yellow.


A YELLOW house next to the guest house. They love YELLOW!



This is our house, located on the corner of Komaromi and Heja. Our house is the one in the background that looks peach colored even though it is really golden yellow. Notice the beautiful blooms on our almond tree? You enter the house on the side, and go into a "mud room" which is where everyone takes off their shoes. In Hungary, you don't wear shoes in the houses, and the host often provides bedroom slippers for the guests to wear. (We bought 6 pairs for our guests.


Dirty dishes everywhere. Where is the dishwasher? He is clearing the table.

As you enter the house, turn left and you are immediately in the kitchen.

We had our weekly Bible study at our house on Thursday with 3 other couples and we invited them to come early for dinner. We love having company, but in our small kitchen with our small stove and no dishwasher (automatic, that is), we might not have as many big meals as we did in Marietta!

An hour later, a clean kitchen!

Just beside the kitchen is the living/dining room combination. (Also on the main floor is the guest bathroom and a tiny room that is big enough for just the toilet! Here, the toilets are often separate from the tub/shower and sink.

Friday evening Glenn and I went to IKEA and bought some of the furniture and other needed items for setting up our house, so Saturday was a work day in the house for us! Glenn put together a table that he will use as his office desk and the four chairs that came with it. Cile spent most of the day making curtains for our bedroom and the guest room. Unfortunately, neither set of curtains were completely finished because we were lacking some of the materials (and don't know yet where to go to get them!)



A little bit cleaner view of the living room. Glenn is working on conjugating some Hungarian verbs on his computer, sitting in one of the chairs he bought then put together for the small balcony off the office. (Kari, did you zoom in to see which pictures are on our mantel? Equal.)

The dining room (which is part of the living room!) is our main room in the house. (Kari, two picture frames next to ebony fruit bowl. Also equal.)

Glenn's office

Our bedroom

We are using our Senegalese quilt that was a present from Kari and Chris several years ago for our bed. It is not possible to find black curtains here, so we bought two black fleece blankets and are converting them into curtains. We have a street light right outside our bedroom window so the black curtains are a big help at blocking out the light! Bedrooms here don't typically have closets, so we are buying some "wardrobes" from a missionary that is moving back to the US. We hope to get them this week!

The guest room

In the meantime, our clothes are still in suitcases in the guest room. When the wardrobes arrive, we will get this room fixed up for our first overnight guests (which will be Kari and Jonathan! They arrive on April 6th and will stay for 6 days. We are so ready to see them!)

As you can tell, most of the work downstairs has been completed and we're working upstairs now, which is where we have two bedrooms, an office and a bathroom. We hope to get most of the upstairs in order by this weekend, assuming we get the furniture from the missionary family that is leaving. Another fun week ahead!

Glenn hanging out with some of his friends at the bus stop

Cile laughing at Glenn at the bus stop

Since we do not have phones and internet at our house yet, we go back to the guesthouse every other day to retrieve and send messages, emails and phone calls. Glenn takes care of most of our "official" emails and Cile keeps up with friends and family, writes the newsletter and updates the blog. We have become quite the geeks.

We got your message!

The other night when we had folks over for dinner and Bible study, we found this message in the ice chest. We think we know who wrote this, and we want you to know how much we appreciate it! It made us feel good to know you love us.

Please continue to pray for our language learning and opportunities for us to practice what we learn. It is amazing how much we've learned already, but when we speak, our minds go blank!

Pray that we won't freeze up and that the words will rrooolllllll off our tongues!

Also, our collegues that run the guesthouse are on a short vacation so we are covering for them. Pray that we will be able to handle all medical crises (or that there won't be any while the Doyles are out of town!) and that we will still be able to do our language study. We only have 4 more weeks of language.

Lastly, we don't know what happened to the pictures in last weeks' blog. They were there early in the week! Guess we're not good enough geeks to put them back in! Viszontlatashra!