Come to Casa Shalom!

A great opportunity has come up here at Casa Shalom! We just had a team drop out of our summer schedule and we are looking to fill the space with another group. The available dates are July 3^rd-16^th. Whether you have never been to Casa Shalom, it has been awhile since you visited or you are a frequent visitor, consider getting a group together and visiting for a week or two. If those dates don’t work for you, we have others available. We would love to see you at Casa Shalom!

Funny babies

Abby and Linda think they are two funny babies!

A garden in the making

We at Casa Shalom are in the beginning stages of creating a vegetable garden! During our Easter vacation, the kids have been hard at work clearing off and staking out land for the garden and tilling up the soil. Among many other veggies, we'll be growing lettuce, cabbage, celery, onions and peppers. We will be planting soon!


Enma and her house dad lay stakes to mark off the corners of the garden.
















Edwin and Brayan clear away some brush













Some of the boys haul away a log.















Maria, Abraham, Sonia and Colim clear brush.














Director Jenny hard at work clearing some land.














The boys tried to use their dog Spike as a beast of burden but he was having none of it!












Marking the boundaries of the garden.


















Tilling by hand











Carlos does a bit of tilling and Maria, Colim and Kevin supervise.


















Elias rakes up a pile of leaves










The kids hard at work raking and tilling!

Happy Easter!

This morning at Casa Shalom, we celebrated La Pascua (Easter) in a special way. The kids attended a church service where they learned about Christ's sacrifice for them. After, they enjoyed the Second annual Easter egg hunt! They hunted for over 700 eggs that were filled with candy, prizes, and a few were even filled with a little bit of money!







Poor garden!
















Colim goes to great heights to get an egg.


















Clemente




















Ada


















Victor
















Elias















Everyone examines their loot!

















Vinico and his brother Marvin












Yefri is excited about his candy













Maria and her brother Cesar










Colim and Alejandro














Everyone spoiling their lunch!

















The babies had their very own egg hunt. Can you spot some eggs?














Jorge















Josh and Linda















Abby thinks, "These eggs are mine, all mine!"















Bob and Jorge









































Mmmm...chocolate!












Even baby Mynor got in the Easter spirit in his duckie pajamas!












Linda and Abby weren't too thrilled when we took away their candy so they could eat lunch.









Jessica, Josh and Linda.

Brothers

Henry gives his little brother Cesar a lift!