Retreat + Flying Ants + A new puppy

Hi everyone!  Sorry about the lack of posts lately! 

Cason and I recently returned from our missionary retreat in Malindi on the coast.  It was a wonderful time of respite and relaxation... but I have never experienced heat like that in my life. It was very humid and at night never got below 80 F at night so you can imagine the days!  It had everything a good vacation should have, heat, sand that gets in everything, great food, beautiful lodgings, water to swim in, monkeys, lizards, wild hedgehogs, snakes, and lots of birds :)  My ideal vacation!

While the missionaries attended spiritual renewal seminars during the week Cason and I took over Vacation Bible school for the middle school aged group of missionary kids.   We discussed parables and how to live your life for Christ.  We were so impressed by their depth of insight and passion for the Lord.  I think Cason discovered his calling to minister to that age group since his sense of humor pretty much fit in perfectly ;)  Here’s a pictures of us with our kids:

And here’s the kids trying to dunk Cason in the pool… he said it was the best workout he’d had in a while!:
It was a great week for us to spend time together as a couple  We really needed some time to ourselves after a very busy last couple months so after VBS in the mornings it was wonderful to just spend time relaxing together in the afternoons. 

Upon our return we were greeted by rain... which brought back thousands of flying ants to our house!  Every once in a while after a big rain, these bugs will hatch out of the ground, fly around for a bit, their wings will fall off, then they mate on the ground and die.  Whenever it happens, we try to seal up our house with towels and sick the cat on any of the ants that do make it inside!  The picture on the right is our back porch covered in dead bugs and wings… 

We also have decided to get a puppy since the dog at our house is getting very old and arthritic… by we I mean me : )  So I (Colleen) went and found  some very cute puppies to choose from… it was supposed to just be a scouting mission, but I couldn’t help myself.  They were so cute!  We are loving having a puppy around, although it is a lot of work.  He is super cute and follows us and our cat everywhere we go. 

So that's a sum up of our life now and we'll write about the Baby Center soon.  We love you all and appreciate your support so much!  

Colleen (& Cason)