Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Picture Extravaganza!

First of all, Merry Christmas! We’ve had a wonderful Christmas season, Caleb’s sister Leah and her husband and baby came out to visit us here at Omo for two weeks, and we have loved every minute. Leah is usually the one who posts blogs for me, so forgive the long silence. Leah and Tim leave Omo tomorrow morning to make the two day journey up to Addis in time for their flight on Tuesday night, so I am getting together a lot of pictures for Leah to post when she gets stateside. It’s a mixture of old and new pictures from the last three or four months—somehow in the last couple of months we lost the capability to send pictures via our radio email, hence the lack of pictures on the blog. I’m grabbing the chance now to flood the blog with pics, so enjoy the following pictures…the house is now totally finished, but there are some pictures from when it was still a work in progress. The adorable baby is Isla Brooks, Leah’s 9 month old. Enjoy! If you are interested in seeing more, I’ve recently updated the kid’s picture website. The link is http://www.elsamorrell.shutterfly.com/.

A Sunday school class in North Carolina gave the gift of a goat to Nanuk, an evangelist in the local church


Visit from Tim, Leah and Isla


Elsa and Ezra with their friend, Ester


Quite a catch!


Elsa and Spice, her new chicken


soon to be kitchen


swimming with cousin Isla


Ezra's favorite thing!


roasting marshmallows


Cousin, Isla, enjoying Elsa and Ezra's swing


stockings on Christmas morning


view of the stormy sky from our front yard


Caleb welding our stairs


Our House is finished!


sunset at the fossil beds


Omo sunrise from the boat