Leaving Oakdale

Yesterday we left Oakdale, were we have spent the last 7 weeks. When I, (Jennifer) first came to Oakdale in 1996 there was only 1 staff kid. As you can tell by the picture there are a lot more, 24 exactly. Kiah and Jacob loved playing with all there friends this summer and they will miss them very much.

Feet

Since we have gotten a new digital camera, Jon and I both have loved taking pictures. I am also learning to use Photoshop. Here are some cute pictures of the kids feet. Maybe next time, I will have cute pictures of their faces.

Summer Fun

We have really enjoyed this summer, especially our time here at Oakdale. Here are s few pictures of the past few weeks.

Kiah eating her own decorated birthday cake at a party here in campus.

We traveled to IL for my sister's wedding.
(From left to right: me, sister Aubrey, sister Ellie, birth-father Harvey, sister Amanda, birth-mother Colleen, brother Eric and sister Brittany)
Our family tree has a few forks in it. I will explain the best I can. All the girls in the picture have the same father. Ellie, Amanda, Eric and I have same mother. Ellie, Amanda and I have the same mother and father.

We also went fishing and caught quite a few fish. Here are Jacob and Kiah with there fish.

A brief update

It has been awhile since an update. We are currently living at Oakdale Christian Academy. Jon and I worked here at Oakdale before going to Africa in 2004. Jon has been helping put trusses and a roof onto a new staff duplex, while I have been working on a new website. Kiah and Jacob love Oakdale. There are about 24 staff kids to play with all day long. Jacob loves it because there are railroad tracks right across the street. It has been good to be back, we have many great friends here.

Things are moving along for our big move to Cambridge. We have purchased our tickets for September 15th (we fly out of Washington, D.C.), and have received our visas-praise Jesus. Also, we now have a place to live-another praise. We are going to rent a 3 bedroom flat about 3 miles from Jon's college. I am so thankful it is on the first floor, and very close to the bus stop. It is part of university housing, so I am sure we will meet lots of new people.


It is amazing to see how God has brought everything together. The only thing to figure out is how to get us, the kids and all our stuff by plane, trains and buses to our new place.

Vacation

We spent last week with Jon's family at Panama City Beach. We had a great time. We had a condo right on the beach with a swimming pool. The kids loved it. Here are few pictures from the week. I will post more later, we took over 500 pictures so I am working on sorting through them.

Moving

We are moving. I thought it would be better to post this picture than one of our actual house right now. It is a disaster area. It would be easier if we were moving to a different house, but we are moving unto a 10x10 storage unit. This move has several dynamics: stuff we won't need for the next three years, stuff we will need in England, stuff we will need until we leave for England.

Also the picture depicts are life for the new few months, we will be nomads. On Friday, we will leave on vacation with Jon's parents for a week. Then we will be going to Oakdale Christian Academy for 6 weeks. We worked at Oakdale before we went to Africa. After that we will be heading to Jon's parents until September 15th. During that time we will be going around telling family and friends goodbye.

So it will be a busy summer, we will continue to post all our our adventures.

Sunsets