Sunday, September 21, 2008

Weekend Update

Yesterday was the soccer game, which was a lot of fun, and to make it even more fun it was a million degrees at the field…

Chris filled in for Elvis who is at boarding school, he was really excited to get to wear the uniform...


The house boys won 2-0…I thought it was only 1-0 but they corrected me today…Goals were scored by Jonah and Joseph respectively…

Whats a Kenyan soccer game without cows...


How much do I love this face?


Here's a fun picture of Chris getting kicked...


Martin...


Braum and Edwin at half-time...Edwin taking cues from the cows he earlier had to chase off the field




Smiley Paul...


Look at Johnstones legs...how is that humanly possible?


Evans hung with me on the sidelines...we were both photographers that day...



And today some of the boys from House 3 stopped by after church to hang out for a bit…Im super tired if you couldn’t tell so Ill leave it up to the pictures…

House 3, all that is missing is Wiki...


The boys walked me all the way home from church so I wouldn't have to take a motor boda or walk alone...But now that I think of it, I was told by Moses today that I looked good and fat. Which hasnt been the first time I've heard that in the last 2 weeks, so perhaps a long walk was good for my fat a...


This is our backyard...jealous?


Joseph playing soccer..


Ovi...


The shameless group self-portrait...


Al & Isaiah


This is the wrath you will face if you break into our house...and Chris could actually wake-up...




Isaiah decided he wanted to wear Al's boots...not too bad of a fit...and I like the polka dots...


Ovi..


Everyone calls him "Babu" which means grandpa in Swahili and hes not a fan, no wonder he looks so sad, you should call him John...

A close up of "Babu"


Joseph, managed to find all this fun stuff in Chris' room


We're going to these boy's house for dinner on Friday so it should be a lot of fun..It was really a great time today and we were glad they came over esp. since they didnt get to go to the soccer game yesterday...

One fun story that has no picture to accompany it, but is equally worth the time is, Today in church we were asked to greet people around us. So we did and the man that Alice talked to was very nice. He even invited us to his wedding that will be in Dec. He told Alice that "they had mated and had 3 children" and wanted to make it "official"...awesome...
Tomorrow begins another busy but fun week...time is seriously flying by...crazy...

Friday, September 19, 2008

House 1

Tonight we went to House 1 from Oasis of Hope to have dinner with the boys... Evans, Edwin, Jonah, Paul, Braumwel, and Elvis( when he's not in school) all live in House 1
And as we figured it was so much fun...

We had Chipati and potatoes and meat for dinner...They normally eat chipati on wednesday nights, but they saved it and moved it back to friday night for us...


SO while Allison and I were hard at work in the kitchen with Edwin and Jonah, Paul and Chris decide to turn on some music and thats where these come in...


BFF


Not to worry, we had our own fun...

Oh Alice


I burned myself a couple times on the jiko, theyre freaking hot


Edwin REALLY likes Alice...


And right about now is when the camera got taken over by someone with a very large amount of grease on their hands...


Braum wasn't feeling well because he had Typhoid so he laid down until dinner... I almost didnt see him under the blanket he is so skinny...


Evans...


Jonah...


Alice loved this little window and insisted on serving out of it...


Chris used this same window for his photo shoot, clever...


Post-dinner activities included Chris teaching the boys how to fart with their armpit...Paul eventually caught on...


While Jonah just failed...He couldn't seem to get the right form...Up under the shirt, not over...he had it all wrong


Wrapped up by Chris' impression of Dirty Harry...


I think one of the best parts of the night, because there were multiple, was Chris exposing his food baby


Evans saw the burns on my ankle and asked if he could fix it for me. He busted out every item in the first aid kit...He put things on my foot that had nothing to do with a burn, but he was so excited to be "the doctor"...he did a good job


Tomorrow...Futbol (soccer) game!

Pool Day!

Today we took some of the kids from Sister Fredas to the pool at the Kitale Club and it was soooooo fun... Its the second time we've done it and I think, i hope it, becomes a regular thing...
Fair warning there are a lot of pictures of Elia...Just sayin...

The kids in their new swimsuits, testing the water...


Esther and Morgan...The anticipation was killing them...


Allison & tiny Jaci


Believe it or not Elia liked being splashed...and then theres my white self...awful, so sorry if your eyes are hurting right now...



Just how big are my glasses?


Thoughtful...


Cute Esther...


close up


Oh Moses and his ringworm...



Pampers lies, they can't hold everything...


I know you think it looks like Im am exploiting him for a good picture, well I was...


Allison's friend Speedo, yes, his name really is Speedo, brought us some chips, A.K.A. fries...




Morgan and his chips...



Moses stuck a fry in his Fanta and by the time he got it out all the Fanta was gone and the fry was orange...seriously kid


African kids are awesome...


In other news, Chris found a stupid hat...and wore it ALL day...