cason & colleen: Some kids and Lake Baringo

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Some kids and Lake Baringo

In the past week and a half, we’ve camped with hippos and boated with crocodiles at Lake Baringo, seen giraffes, lions, and rhinos at Lake Nakuru, housed our friends from Taylor for some nights, eaten a wonderful Thankgiving dinner at the Vanderhoofs, kissed a giraffe, and been to/from Nairobi to pick up Colleen’s dad and uncle. It has been so busy, but so much fun!

We’ll get up pictures of all those events as we have time, but now I’m focusing on catching up on the dozens of emails in my work inbox… can’t be all fun and games I guess (except for Colleen, who is playing at the Baby Center with her dad… ; ).

A few weekends ago we had some of the kids from the Baby Center out to play at our house for some hours. It was Momo’s first time to come, though he had heard all about it from the other kids. He is the oldest at the Baby Center and I had so much fun with him on our backyard ropeswing. Click HERE for some more photos of Manu, Precious, and Momo playing at our house - they were so fun and cute!

Like I said in the first paragraph, we also went to Lake Baringo with our Danish friends Mikkel and Margit. There we got to see crocodiles and hippos right along our campsite, and we went on an amazing early morning boat ride on which we saw so many kids of birds and beautiful scenery. Click HERE to see the entire album of our Lake Baringo photos… we got some really great ones of the birds and landscape.

Thanks, as always for reading our blog… we’ll put up some more photo albums soon. We really appreciate your prayers and support!

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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.