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Father's Day

We had a great Father's Day together with most of the Talen family present. Wilbert's brother and sister-in-law are back from Uganda, and Wilbert's sister came home for weekend as well. We we just missing Emil and Karisa, but hopefully we will be able to see them later on in the summer.

Joash had a nice gift from Pre-K for his dad. They filled out this information sheet. 
It was pretty accurate, really and we were happy to see his super hero was Jesus. :)

Joash also coloured on a key chain and Wilbert has already found a use for it. We are thankful to be the parents of our great kids!

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