cason & colleen: Links… with more to come!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Links… with more to come!

We’ve been having a great time with Colleen’s father John and her Uncle Jim the last few weeks. We were just at the Masai Mara in southern Kenya for a few days going on safari and staying at the nicest “hotel” in Africa… it was awesome. We saw lion, giraffe, cheetah, rhino, elephant, hippo, and so many more… all except leopard : ( . We’ll put up pictures as we have time… we are getting really behind with albums and blogging!

Lots has been happening that we haven’t posted about… Thanksgiving weekend I went with the Ngata Youth group we’ve been leading to hike Mount Longonot. It was an amazingly beautiful hike, and such a great time… until a torrential downpour swept in and soaked everyone to the bone. I still had a great time, but a few of the youth swore they wouldn’t do it again : ) Click here is a link to pictures of my hike with the Ngata Youth group – pre downpour. I thought my camera was ruined from the rain, but thankfully it survived.

While in Nairobi to pick up Colleen’s dad and Uncle, we celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary… actually it was our 1 year 11.5 month anniversary. The real day is Tuesday (the 15th), but we knew we’d be too busy to get away. Click HERE for a few pictures from our celebration... and by sure to tell Colleen congrats (and thanks) for putting up with me!

The weekend of Thankgiving, three of our friends who are student teaching in Nairobi came to visit. We went to Lake Nakuru Park (the one we can see from our house) for the first time. HERE is a link to an album of our day at Lake Nakuru National Park with Heidi, Mark, and Ashley. Check it out if you like giraffes, zebras, rhinos, lions.... In addition toe park, they also joined us for Thanksgiving, spent time at the Baby Center, etc. Here is an album of Mark, Ashley, and Heidi in Nakuru and at the Baby Center.

Thanks for checking in with us… we’ll post more pictures of our time with John and Jim, and at the Mara.

PS-We’re trying to get out a Christmas letter, but we’ve got more meeting next week and then Corinn (Cason’s sister) comes to visit… so it might be more like a New Years or Valentine’s Day letter.

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About us

We’re Cason & Colleen. We met at Taylor University in Indiana, and started dating while studying abroad in Ireland in 2004. We got married a few years ago and since then we’ve been enjoying journeying with the Lord together.

For photos and videos mostly of our kids, you can find us on Facebook (Colleen & Cason), Instagram (Colleen & Cason), or Youtube.

We started this blog in 2009 before we left to work in Kenya, but now that we’re back, we’re going to try to keep it updated with what is going on in our lives. We were in Kenya for almost a year and a half, and while we were there, Cason worked as the treasurer for a mission organization, and Colleen worked at an orphanage for 0-4 year old children. Cason also helped organize a local soccer team, and we both led a local church youth group.

We returned to the US in December 2010 and spent a few months based at Colleen’s parent’s home in Wooster, Ohio, while we figured out what was next for us. We were trying to seek the Lord during that time, but it was/is difficult to know what to do, especially with all that has happened in our lives the last few months in Kenya (see our blog archive).

The first few months in Wooster, Cason continued to work remotely as the treasurer for the mission, while Colleen helped care for the family puppies. (Cason ran the puppy blog, DoodlesbyRosie).

After taking some time to travel and visit friends and family, we ended up moving to Danville, Kentucky, south of Lexington, to be closer to Colleen's extended family and some good friends. Cason works in the finance department at the local hospital, and Colleen has been substitute teaching and volunteering at the humane society. We've gotten involved at a local church, and are loving the community there. We're also in the process of adopting domestically, and have revived the blog, in part, to document those proceedings.