Leister's Kenyan Life

We greet you with joy and smiles! Joyce is so happy with her ability to walk and stand on her own two feet! Sarah Maggie Joyce Gabriel Reuben February brings the 3rd birthday of our beatiful Jerusalem Jewel! We have just finished celebrating our beatiful Jerusalem Jewel's 3rd birthday! We had a great time making our Valentines! Thank you all who sent us the cutters,candies to decorate with and cookie dough recipt. Flour is a main ingredient in the art of having fun baking cookies! The day was very much enjoyed! Our life here is no different than anywhere when working with children , sometimes bittersweet! This month it has been just that in seeing two of our girls reunited wih their mother. This is a picture of Nancy,Alice( their mother)& Maggie. We are in constant contact and they are doing very well. Ruth is growing so fast, she is beginning to crawl! We had a great visit with the Kisumu Leisters and the Schmidt family! Unfortunately all the pictures ex...

This new year will see the new house project finished and in good use. These are the masons putting on the hardcast ( stucko type finish ). We are very anxious to have the house finished we will definately appreciate the room it will give all our growing family and the opportunity to bring in more . As you can see we need it! Our existing dinning room is getting quite small for everyone. Here we are missing 3 children and Dannon, Horace and myself. Here is an inside shot down the east hall toward Troy's and the children's bedrooms and baths. The inside plastering are all done but we must wait 30 days until we can paint. Looking out from the kitchen into the dinning on the left and the sitting on the right. West wall of the sitting into the dinning. During drying time Horace will place cabnets and plumming and electric. The end of the house with just the plaster and bands on. The back of the house with just plaster and bands. This is before the hard cast. This is the house wit...

Now this looks like Christmas at the Leister's! This is our 3rd Christmas in Kenya! Dannon was happy with her gift! Gifts!! Gabe loved the candy canes! Enoch with his Christmas Stocking! Ruth enjoying her gifts on Christmas morning! Wall of stockings! One for everyone, even our househelp! They were made by a friend in colorado! They are so beautiful! Baking Christmas cookies with friends! Shoebox gifts from our friends at New Life Church in Pierce Idaho! Our beautiful Christmas Tree! This was the 1st year we had a tree for Christmas we were so blessed, we purchased it from some friends who were returning to the states. Outside looking in! Prayer time! It was great to have Josh, Rachel and our grandson Tekoa with us for Christmas! We had many visitors during Christmas! This was a group that visited from Moi Referal Hospital ( the hospital where we have recieved most of our children from) Sarah Mamlin and her husband direct the intern program there between Kenya and the US. These ...