A Picture Post

Ok, I know I've slacked off on posting pictures on here. I'd like to say it's because I've been busy, which is true. But I mostly have just forgotten. Oops. So here's a bunch from our past few months here, with some descriptions.


We made it back to PNG in early December. It took almost 40 hours of traveling to get here, but it was so good to finally be home! At least, home on the mission base. :)

It was so fun to decorate for Christmas this year. We feel like PNG is home now, so that made it a lot more special for us. And it was fun to start some of our own family traditions. We put up all our Christmas decorations pretty much right away after getting here. We bought the tree and lights in town (yup, you can find Christmas stuff in town).

These little string bags are called "bilums" here in PNG. Almost everyone carries one around when going places. They act as a purse/wallet and come in all kinds of colors. We made these smaller versions as a fun way for our family to do Christmas stockings.

We had a really fun Christmas celebration with our teammates! The kids' Aunt Lisa spoiled them to death! :) So thankful for missionaries who become like family here to make the holidays special.

December also meant lots of meetings with our teammates to continue talking through our strategy for moving into Wabuku. There's so much to talk through, but we are grateful to be unified as we begin this ministry together. We seriously love these guys so much!

And Kyler loves being back with his little friends! Our teammates, Jason and Laken, have two little boys who are close to Kyler's age. It's going to be so fun for these three growing up in the jungle together!

 

Kyler has done great with all the transition back to PNG! He probably transitioned better here than anywhere for the past five months, so we're so thankful for that.

We feel spoiled living on the mission base because we literally can see the beach from our house. We love going down there every once in a while to swim. It's so beautiful here!

 

After all the New Year's celebrations, we started preparing for moving into Wabuku (since we originally thought we were moving in on January 16... more on that later). Everything we take in has to be weighed and labelled (for the plane flight) and wrapped in black plastic (for the canoe trip).

Here's one of the spots on base where we store our supplies after we get them all packaged up.

And here's our team Wabuku mail box (the box above the sign)! We really love getting mail! :) Side note: Thanks SO much to all those who sent Christmas cards! We so loved getting those!

Amidst all the Wabuku prep, these two kiddos have been so good! They have been growing and changing so much, and are doing awesome with all the change. Kyler's language abilities have exploded, and he has added a bunch of new words to his vocabulary. He even says a few short sentences. He runs everywhere and hardly slows down. He loves anything with wheels. We're also trying to work on potty training him... we'll see how it goes. :) Brooke is a little sweetie. Everyone who meets her falls immediately in love with her cute little face and chunky little thighs. She rolls all over the place and loves playing in her Jolly Jumper. She also passed a milestone this month with starting to eat solids! We gave her some mashed bananas, and she loved them!

Well, there you have it. I could post so many more pictures... but there's only so much space in a blog post without going completely crazy. :) Thanks so much for praying for us during all this transition! It means so much to us!