Christmas 2013

About a week before Christmas John looks at me and says, "Do you realize this will be our last Christmas just the two of us?"  It took me a moment to realize what he was saying.  Next Christmas baby Lwoyelo will be here with us and all the Christmas' to come will be spent with her and her siblings we trust God to give us.   Of course Baby Lwoyelo is with us this Christmas but being still in my womb it's just John and I.  This is our third and last Christmas just the two of us.  With every season life brings there is always the end of something and the beginning of something else.  Each season is precious in it's own way.  So we decided to consciously cherish the quite house and sleeping in Christmas morning for the last time before crying babies, excited sugar filled kids, messes and crazy early wake up calls by wide eyed children begin. 

Thanksgiving 2013

We are so blessed to be part of such an amazing team here.  Of course Thanksgiving is not a Kenyan holiday but our team always finds a way to celebrate it in such a fun and memorable way.  This year we were blessed to be joined by the Kelly family who are the newest addition to our team.  It was a bitter sweet time though as it will be the last Thanksgiving we spend with the Germo family who have been our team leaders since, well, since forever.  Dan Germo has accepted a position back in Minnesota at the Bethany home office.  We will miss his family terribly and yet we are all at peace that this is God's direction for not only the Germo family but also for Bethany as an organization and for the team here in Kenya.  But no worries, we will not be left like sheep without a shepherd.  Tim Kelly and his family will be taking over the Germo's leadership position here in Kenya as our team's new leaders.  So, with all that we had a fun and memorable Thanksgivings with two quite large turkeys and all the trimmings and 26 people, including children, to help eat it.

 

And of course the joys of Thanksgiving continues days after the fact with lots of yummy leftovers: