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Today most of the house boys left to go home for Christmas. They have been talking about it for months, and truthfully we didn't know if it was going to happen because of money. Everything worked out and thanks to a bunch of donations to Oasis, they were able to go at the last minute.

Before they left Geoffrey had a talk with them about traveling, their "activities" at home, and when to be back. We heard that the boys didnt have bibles of their own and we found a huge box of them here at our house, so Allison, Chris, Andrew, and I decided this might be a good gift to give them before they left. We wrote their name, our favorite bible verse, and signed them



The boys in the office with their bibles...



So of coarse as we were saying goodbye we had to take as many pictures as possible...

Wiki & John


Evans & John


Dr. Stone



Esokon, Paul, and Bram before they headed to Lodwar


Evans


Bram



We said goodbye to the house boys and then this awesome photo shoot took place...



Mobsters...


They all wantedto see themselves, so they mobbed Alice


Our littlest ninja Kamao, hes got a wicked Praying Mantis...




Kamao was in rare form today


Seriously looks like an alien...


Cute Teresa


Ovito's brother Isaiah...


Simon


Andrew's workout


Hand check


Who knows...


After we walked into town to get the rest of the Christmas presents. Andrew and I wandered around the street to find some kids we know who hadn't come to Oasis and found these two at the kinyozi...

Yep, it's for real, the Pentagon opened a kinyozi in Kenya...some sort of under cover thing...

Bram wanted to look smart for the fam, and why not? He has 11 brothers and sisters waiting...This kid's 16! He looks like an old man...

Christmas Time is Here...

Yesterday and today Joseph, Andrew, Allison, and I went to town to start getting things for the Oasis Christmas celebration coming up on Tuesday...
We spent a good amount of time at Joseph's friend's store getting clothes for about 120 kids. Each kid will get a new pair of pants, a nice shirt, socks, and shoes...

The floor of the store was covered, you could barely see joseph's feet.





This is the crowd that began to gather because of all the "Mazungu's" in the shopping center...


Andrew looked like Santa Claus hauling out the bags of clothes...


We can't wait for Tuesday the kids are so excited for Christmas. I'm really thankfull to be here for it. I'm sad I can't be at home this time of year, but getting to see these kids on Christmas will make it more than worth it...
Also, to everyone who sent donations to Oasis for Christmas and to replace what was stolen in the boys homes, a huge THANK YOU for making it all possible, it couldn't have happened without your help...There will be more to show after Tuesdays party, we're keeping everything hidden for now:)