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A picture of our Christmas tree and annabelle and her friend showing each other their bellys.

Pictures of Christmas Tree

Friends here are some pictures of our Christmas setup which also happened to be Momma Jamie's birthday. Happy Christmas. Thanks for watching.

A Bit of Rest

Hi everyone. Its break time and that means rest. And rest is, in fact, what we've been doing. As well as getting a newsletter ready, and getting some gifts for our family back in the states and things. This week we are house sitting for one of our professors. They went on "holiday" as the British call it, to the coast, and so they graciously let us spend a week at their house. It is bigger than ours, nicer, has internet, a washing machine and a really big yard/garden around it so the kids can play. Its been nice and quiet because its on the other side of campus from where we live.
In other news, Jamie's Birthday was last week, Junio and Jeremy went out and bought her a fake Christmas tree for her birthday. We also went out to lunch, to Jamie's favorite place, Java House (www.nairobijavahouse.com), for American style food, she had a burrito, lemonade and a mocha frappucino for dessert. We took Gladwell with us. She loved it. It was her second time ever having a hamburger (the first time we found out was earlier this term when we all had to eat lunch at the cafeteria here).
In kids news, Annabelle has been loving the sand box in the back yard here and Junio has really enjoyed playing with a few of his closest friends instead being bombarded with tons of kids all the time. We were able to babysit Lilo and her older brother and sister,Jonathan and Abigail, while their parents went all the way to the other side of Nairobi for the day. They played so well all day. And Annabelle, of course, loved having her best friend Lilo over.
Jeremy was able to go and shadow with a colleague last week. The fellow is a translation consultant working with some languages in Tanzania and is based out of Nairobi. Jer absolutely loved the work. They had a great time checking the translation the native speakers had done and making comments. thats it for now, thanks for watching.