Idaho Winter
A few pictures along the way home from town. The weather finally cleared after about a week of snowing.
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Growing Sweethearts
It is about time we updated pictures of the children. The girls are growing and changing so fast! Every day they learn new things and get faster at crawling. Tivoli says Mama regularly and said Dada for the first time the other day! Esther is seriously addicted to her fingers and Tivoli decided a pacifier is a wonderful thing. They are nine months now. Tivoli (yellow headband) Esther (purple headband) Many struggles over who gets which toy occur every day... And usually the result is one happy baby and one sad baby. Tivoli is almost always happy, steady, and consistent. However, she loves to explore and escapes every time the door is left open. She really likes the dogs who are probably five times her size and like to lick her face. Unfortunately, her explorations outside usually end with a very happy but filthy baby. Well, this is 100% Esther when we say smile. She loves to snuffle her nose at you and once she is comfortable with som...
Geyman News
Training Jacob has been working through flight and maintenance standardization with JAARS. They have covered runway surveying, turbine engine maintenance, and much more. He has finished his initial flying in the Helio Courier and has started his training in the Cessna 206 which is the aircraft type he will fly in Tanzania. Clinic Carmen has been enjoying the weekly mornings with the other wives as they spend time talking, praying, and listening to other veteran mission wives share their story. They have shared on valuable topics related to managing a family on the mission field. She is also enjoying one morning a week at the JAARS health clinic doing charts and other odds and ends to ease the load of the other health care workers. Pray for Steve… Amidst all the beauty of spring, we have run into some unexpected bumps. The couple we will be replacing in Tanzania was back in the States for a short furlough. However, instead of returning to Tanzania as scheduled,...
Haydom
Tuesday last week I flew out with another MAF pilot, Kirstein, to Haydom. Our schedule was full with flights out to even more remote villages, and we would not return back to Arusha until Friday. On one of the afternoons we needed to haul to the maximum capacity of the aircraft, and so I was left on the ground. As I waited to catch a few pictures of Kirstein taking off to the villages, these two girls kept begging me to take a picture of them so they could see themselves. They were quite pleased, and a little shy, when I showed them my camera screen. After he was off, I began my hike to the large hill beside the town of Haydom. Having grown up in the mountains of Idaho, I miss the tranquility and peace of being in the wild. Being away from busy city life gives me time to think and process. I began to contemplate how different Tanzania is from the world I grew up in. For instance, it took me multiple visits to the Haydom airstrip before noticing the ridicu...