Puppy’s 1st Birthday
Koda recently celebrated his 1st birthday with a home-made bone-shaped liver cookie, as if he wasn’t spoiled enough! He has brought us so much joy and laughter. Here are just a small selection of moments with our beloved puppy, we hope they will make you smile.
Sending the Love!
Thank you! For every one of our dear friends, family & supporters who have ever sent us a piece of mail, thank you so much!
As much as I miss mail, I would still advise to not send us post this year, but I just wanted to say a really warm & heartfelt thank you to all of you who have made the effort to go the extra mile in the past, it really made the distance between us feel less! Thank you and God bless.
Shiv’s Birthday Celebration
My birthday’s on Tuesday this year, so we celebrated a little early as Ryan is flying on Tuesday and we don’t have any expat neighbours for me to have a birthday tea party with.
As I expected, no post from overseas arrived in time, although I know some is coming! However, my Parents-in-Law sent my birthday card with us from Canada and I have some wonderful friends in PNG who sent me cards and gifts.
So, even though this was an unusually quiet birthday with no friends around, I feel throughly spoilt and extremely blessed, thanks mostly to my wonderful husband!
KETCHUP - CATCH UP!
Last week we held a 4-day gathering for all of the MAF PNG, in-country expat families. “The KETCHUP” was a chance for all expats to gather, get some spiritual input and share in some overdue fellowship. As our expat colleagues are based in 4 different locations, it is often a long time between visits, so this was a wonderful opportunity to meet the new families and have time to support and encourage each other.
Click to see more pics and find out a bit of what we got up to.
Silly RayRay!
So we’ve had a bit of rain in Tele lately and our garden is a bit muddy… After deciding it was a good idea to roll around on the “lawn” he had to go straight in the outdoor sink for a bath! Normally Ray spends the majority of his day lying on pillows on the sofa, he doesn’t usually favour mud.
Happy Birthday Ryan!
We’ve had a fairly chilled day, BBQ & cake for lunch with our family, and Ryan & Rosa and their kids, followed by a walk through the Prairie wilderness where Ryan found a beautiful patch of “Shooting Star” flowers (pictured).
Click on the picture, left, to watch a video of our friend, Nurse Rhema, one of the local health care workers who MAF supports and we fly out of Telefomin.