Annabelle's Birthday

Annabelle turned 3 today!!  Here are pics of her birthday party!  All she wanted was a cake, lollipops, sprite, and lots of friends.  I think she got all that and more.  What fun!!

Hi friends, Things are going well.  Just thought we would post these pics. One is of Annabelle with Gladwell's youngest daughter, Virginia.  Their favorite thing lately is to come home from school and ask for 5 shillings, then they go and buy bananas from the fruit and veg. lady and eat them together.  Then there is the pic of Jer's eye when he had such a bad infection, it was swelled shut.  It is probably a good thing that we didn't take a pic of it on the inside cause it was hemorrhaging.  Then there is a pic of Junio in a play at school.  It was a modern day version of the good samaritan.  He was a kid who beat up another kid on the playground and took his ball.  He had a little too much fun with that role :).  Then there is one of him with his friends at school.  And then there is big girl Lily being so proud of herself sitting up.  She is generally really happy.  I love when she smiles, her tongue pops out! 

Trip to Marallel

We went on an exciting adventure during mid-term break.  We went up to a little town up country called Marallel.  We went to see some friends named Jim and Sue who have been working with the Daasanach people up north on a Bible Translation for many years.  We thought that we would visit them and see how the translation of the book of John was going.  It was very exciting because it was the first time for Jeremy to sit in and see a taste of what he will be doing next year.  

We borrowed a friends bright yellow Pajero for the trip.  It apparently used to be an ambulance and even had a switch on it to make the siren go off which is good to avoid boredom on long trips. We left Thursday after Jer got done with classes and drove 3 1/2 hours to Nyahururu and stayed at a lodge there at Thomson Falls.  The lodge was a little run-down with beds a bit more like car seats than mattresses but a nice atmosphere, no bugs, and great food.  The waterfall was absolutely gorgeous!!  It was cool so in the evening they came and lit a fire in the fireplace in our room which was so nice.

The next day was 4 1/2 hours going only 110 KM on a dirt road.  Some of the dirt was ok and some was challenging to say the least.  I was just about to the limit (ok, maybe over the limit) of my patience with the road, the kids, my husband and the flies when we arrived.  But we had such a great time, it turned out to be worth it.  Part of the patience testing was when Annabelle asked to go pee about every 15-20 minutes.  By the time we got there though, I realized she had a fever and therefore a urinary tract infection.  We called our doc who talked to a local pharmacist, got her some medicine and she was feeling much better in 24 hours :) 

We had fun going on walks around Marallel, and just experiencing the day to day life of Jim and Sue.  I think one of the most fun things for Junio and Annabelle was doing dishes in a bucket on the floor.  When they ran out of dishes, they wanted to do more, so in went the toys.  They were soaked and happy and had clean toys.  What more can you ask for?