April

Dylan built this beautiful island for our kitchen.  I love the extra counter space!

Dylan had bought some wheels in town and made a cart thingy with it.  He had quite the audience.

 When it was finished he gave each kid a ride individually- what a work out!

 Our coworkers, the Stokes, visited for a few days.  They will be building their house here in June.  Eden was able to spend the night one night and have a tea party.  So fun!

 Somebody had shot this bird's wing.  We kept him but he died the next day.

 While in town we had found some marshmallows ( a rare find ) and had a fire one night.  Roman and some of the Dem people got to roast marshmallows for the first time.  They were a hit with everyone! :)

 

This area used to be covered with a tarp and is the hut that Dylan stayed in for his first three trips into the tribe last year.  Now he's converted it into a green house (I call it Dylan's Secret Garden:) and is very faithful to tend his little plants.

 I make fun of him about it, but I was pretty excited when we had a fresh tomato from his efforts!

 This nasty thing was in our kitchen one night.  Yuck!!!

 One day the helicopter came by unexpectedly.  Some other coworkers in a tribe next to ours don't have an airstrip yet and depend solely on the heli.  They had some things flown into our airstrip and we were storing them at our house until the heli could come and get them. We weren't expecting them when they did come.  It's always a little exciting when a helicopter lands in front of your house :)

 That's all the pictures for April.  I ended up getting malaria and was in bed for a full week.  Nasty stuff.  Dylan was a gem taking care of the kids and still getting study and work done on the house.  Our coworkers also were a huge blessing by helping with meals and bread while I was out of commission.