The Nest

Our Friends from the Nest Children's Home just shared some pictures from their Easter Celebrations! The Nest is a Ministry that cares for children and imprisoned mothers. Over the years, they have also provided for hundreds of orphans who are abandoned or brought to their home in Limuru or Gigiri. You can see photos and learn more about the Nest through this link: http://uhuru.de/thenesthome/ or by searching ourblogs on the search bar at the top of the page or using this link http://fivekennys.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nest

Happy Easter

EASTER GREETINGS

Wayne, Maureen, Jenny, Sean, Michael, Tim, Caleb, Tristan

Erica, Aaron, Ava and Emma

We had a great Easter celebration today with our friends the Morgans and Bannisters. Our three little egg hunters were up early this morning searching the house before our Easter Worship Service -- Ava took the largest haul! There has been lots of singing in the Kenny house, the latest tune comes from an Apple App called "Baby Monkey". It is a very simple game where you control a monkey and a pig as they bounce across the screen grabbing bananas and dodging obstacles, but the further you go the more of the song you hear (imagine singing this in a falsetto, over and over again):

"Baby Monkey, baby monkey

riding on a pig, baby monkey

Baby Monkey, baby monkey

backwards on a pig, baby monkey"

We also enjoyed a great turkey dinner and fun with our team mates the Morgans and the Bannisters (just back from Liberia, we are very sad to see them leaving Kenya). Diane is back in Uganda this month finishing her masters studies in public health, so we weren't able to enjoy a final holiday meal before their upcoming move. We continue to pray for them as they prepare for this transition.

Let the after dinner games begin!

Deep in a game of spoons

Wishing You a Happy Easter!!

Easter at Lake Naivasha

Easter Sunrise at Carnelley's Camp,

Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Team work!

This past weekend, we celebrated Easter at Camp Carnelley's, on the relaxing shore of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley. We arrived after a late lunch and found a quiet corner of the beautiful tenting area under a canopy of Yellow Acacias. Our site was separated from the Lake,and the hungry hippos, only by a shallow ditch and a three foot high fence, but other than the troops of vervet and colobus monkeys, we didn't have any trouble from the local wildlife getting too close to our tent.

Finished setting up the tent together

on Saturday afternoon

Daddy opening his birthday present at the campfire

...can't wait for those birthday cupcakes!

Ready for our sleeping bags after a big day...

Emma enjoying an Easter sunrise along the papyrus

lined banks of Carnelley's Camp

We enjoyed a quiet Easter Sunday, with a short family Easter service and lots of fun playing our favourite board games, walking along the Lake and cooking over our campfire (and our classic Webber grill... we love that charcoal barbecue) -- Easter bunny smores!!!. While Saturday night was pretty crowded at the camp, a thunder storm rolled in on Sunday afternoon and most of our neighbours hit the road. Fortunately for us, the storm moved on and we enjoyed the camp almost to ourselves on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Colobus monkeys in the tall Yellow Acacia trees over our tent

Daddy getting the gas lantern ready for Sunday night

Mommy and Ava at our campsite

Easter morning on Lake Naivasha