Fun and Fellowship with the Kenyan Stinters

Last Wednesday night we had the privilege of hosting last year's Serve International Kenyan Stinters in our home. We invited all those stinters who were with Dennis and I last year in Mombasa. All of us happen to be right here living around Denton for now so we decided to get together for a little reunion. I cooked enchiladas and made the famous Velveeta Queso Dip we all used to eat together on Monday nights in Mombasa. And i even made some special REAL Kenyan chai for us all to drink. Then we just sat around for some fun fellowship and reminiscing of our times together in Kenya. So here's some pictures from that fun night. It was so good to see Bret, Drew, Patrick, Abby and Kristin again!!! We hope to make this a regular event:)

Kenyan Show N Tell

This morning Dennis got a fun chance to be a 7th graders "show and tell". Yep, Sam, the son of the Sizeloves', who's barn we live in, took Dennis to be his show and tell at school. Sam did a geography project and one of the countries he studied was Kenya. All of the kids had to bring souvenirs from their particular countries of interest, so Sam brought a real live souvenir. I also cooked some Pilau, a Kenyan Coastal dish, to take for the class to try. We had a lot of fun. Dennis did a great job in front of the class sharing with them about Kenya. He talked about just how different school is there, marriages, food, etc. I was able to show them just how a Kenyan woman wraps herself in kangas and pass around musical instruments. And Dennis even left the school having learned a lot about what an American 7th grade classroom and school looks like. His comment,,,"even the Kenyan Universities don't look like this". Needless to say, the kids were really amused by Dennis' height as well. Thanks Sam for this fun opportunity. We hope you get an A+ on your project!!!

Visit to Graham, TX

This past weekend Dennis and I spent the weekend in Graham, Tx which is just about 2 hours from where we live. We went to visit some of Dennis' friends and supporters there. Deciree and Graig welcomed us into their home and threw a post-wedding party for us on Saturday night. We ate lots of food and fellowshipped with lots of people. And of course i got my hands on the little baby. Dennis got an opportunity to sit and share with them his testimony, our story and his vision and heart for ministry in Kenya. I was able to meet and put names with so many of the friends Dennis has. God is so good and I am truely blessed with a husband who has touched the lives of many people and who's life has been touched by many people!!

This is a picture of us with our friends and hosts for the weekend, Deciree and Graig
and below is the spread of yummy food

Our Little House on the Prairie

So we said we'd post some more pics of our new home on the ranch so here you go.

So here's our home in the barn. We live on this right side of the barn. There's Dennis waving out the door.

Here's the view looking out our door. Very cute little garden outside.
Dennis calls our home the "little house on the prairie"


Here's a couple pics of our living room area. The animals walking across the window ledge is my favorite!


Our kitchen

The view from our bedroom to the rest of the apartment

The kitchen table had to be stuck in the corner. Plenty of space for guest so come on over for dinner everyone!!

And yes thats a winding metal staircase that you see. Up those stairs is a small windowless room we've made into an office/spare bedroom.


And this is the bedroom of course. I love all the open windows.

Just a little wall decoration. If you were at our wedding and you look real closely you might just see your own autograph on our wall:)

This is the door that leads into the big T.V. room thats right next door to our apartment

Here's the TV/hang out room that is beside us. This room is used by the people who live here for church and youth Bible Studies and women's retreats. Lots of people visit this room every week.

And if you open our back door you will see this room. Yep, a full court basketball court for the MANY MANY kids and youth who hang out at the ranch.

The Love Bus!

So here's a picture of the bus we slept in our second and third nights living in Argyle. Yep, we got here and the air condition in our place had burnt out. We braved the first night of heat, saying, "we should be used to this, we live in Mombasa heat". But after that first night and realizing we had a CHOICE of being hot or not we chose to move over to the bus. The Sizeloves have an RV type bus right behind the barn and we stayed two nights in the cozy "love bus" as its called now. But a couple days later the air condition was working again so we went back to the barn. Praise God for cool air! Just hope we don't get too used to it or its going to be miserable going back to Mombasa next year.

We've Arrived

The Omondis have arrived and are in Texas safely. Our traveling here was pretty uneventful and we are happy to be in our new home at the barn in Argyle. We've spent the last few days settling in and decorating and arranging our new little apartment. Kerry, Dennis' American mom, has been over helping us. When we arrived the air condition was broken so we've spent the last two nights sleeping in a BUS. Our lives are never boring let me tell you. We have pictures to post and stories to tell so stay tuned....just wanted to let you know we are now in Texas and doing well! We start our MTI classes tomorrow morning bright and early!! We'll post more in the days to come!!!! This is a picture of the BARN!! We live in the right side of that barn, from that door in the middle over to the right. We love it so far. Right behind us lives donkeys, a pony, chickens, ducks, a Texas longhorn and more. We feel right at home out here in the sticks...